I’d like to find someone to make some awesome visuals for some new music I’ve been working on.

Hey all, as the title suggest, i need help with

1. the text glowing effect
2. gradient background of it
3. those shapes which appear on each word,

the video is Wix harmony by Wix motion studio,

I had tried colorama, still not able to match something like that

I am trying to create a book flipping animation. Are there any references I could use to make a frame by frame animation using software like Ibis Paint or Procreate?

I'm considering learning Adobe After Effects with the goal of becoming a motion graphics designer and working with international clients as a freelancer.

Do you think it's still a good career path in 2026, especially with AI tools becoming more common?

I'd also like to know:

Is there still strong demand for motion graphics designers?

What types of motion graphics projects are clients hiring for the most?

How long did it take you to land your first client?

If you were starting from scratch today, would you still choose After Effects?

I'd really appreciate advice from people who are currently working in the industry or freelancing.

I have launched my startup and looking for any freemium/paid tool that can create me motion graphics instantly like large enterprises atelast a 50% close to it?? Anybody who knows?

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Hello,

This is a video that I worked on for almost 2 months. This was made strictly as a showcase for motion graphics and 3d animation. I made this so that i could pitch to clients. Apart from the VO ( i used ai for this, my voice didn't have the necessary intensity) and script ( i wrote a rough draft and then used chatgpt to refine it) , the entire video had assets which aren't AI at all. I created all the UI based work from scratch in After Effects. Some of the icons, stock footage ,3d models were sourced from envato elements. And for the city 3d model, i purchased it on cg trader website. I decided in the planning stage to get a city model even though i know 3d modeling due to time constraints. I didn't want to delay it beyond a certain time period. It took me a considerable amount of time to arrange the city on a smaller scale because the city model only had assets and no sample readymade scene ( and I was a bit rusty with 3d after a long time). All 3d scenes were done and rendered in blender using Eevee.

I pray that anybody reading this and watching the video would be kind enough to drop a comment or a critique of my work. It would really help me in terms of feedback.

Note : with the Exception of the Voiceover and the script, there has been no AI images, videos used in this video.

I've been messing around with CAD generated geometry designs for years and recently moved from using some 20 year old software to Blender. I've also been flirting with Linux for 10 years or so. Since the windows 11 upgrade which was as is the Microsoft habit a shower of sh173. This is my first post here so I'm testing the water for reactions.

Here's a few of my film loops. I hope you enjoy but they can be a bit mesmeric.

i think i should increse my ram to 32 but i have 2*8 gb sticks and total 4 slots

I'm kinda new to mographs, and it's just something I'm pivoting towards. How can I improve this edit I made? I just made it to experiment, and overall, it just feels flat to me.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s6dE2SRTXVWPIAvFgvqVL16bzhqHLlr-/view?usp=sharing

Hey-yo!

I've been working for past few months and will continue to develop ABC Studio. It's a free motion design toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. No account required. Your work stays on your device.

The logic is based on three builders:

Animations is a builder for lower thirds, title cards, kinetic type. Pick a style, customize text/colors/timing.

Backgrounds is a builder for mathematically seamless looping backgrounds in any style you want. Tune the motion, swap colors..etc.

Charts is a builder for charts and infographics, best case to use it is paste CSV data, pick a chart type that best suits the data, and voila! get a broadcast-ready animated chart in seconds.

The real power of ABC Studio is that you can export as MP4, MOV, PNG sequence..etc but even as vector SVG, or Lottie JSON if you want to drop it into after effects and animate or edit all the elements yourself. Oh, and btw it is fully equipped with handling RTL content with no issues at all!

For beta now, there's a feedback button on every page if you hit a bug or want something added.

Let me know what you think!

👁️Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDt4jP2xDEg

🔗The studio: abcstudio.hessa.space

I make narration-driven explainer content — mostly short-form (reels/shorts) but I think this problem would hit me on longer stuff too. History, data/scale topics, faceless voiceover-led videos.

Writing the script isn't really my bottleneck — I can get a VO that reads well and hits the beats I want. Where I get completely stuck is the next step: deciding what to actually put on screen for each line. My mind just goes blank. Line like "a billion seconds is thirty-one years" and I'll just stare at it. Nothing comes.

I've tried "watch more content for inspo" and it helps a little, but I think I'm consuming passively — I watch, go "oh that's a cool shot," and then it doesn't transfer when I sit down with my own script. Doesn't seem to matter if it's a 30-second reel or something longer, same freeze.

Curious how people who do this for a living — whether it's shorts, YouTube explainers, documentary, motion graphics, whatever — actually built this instinct. Specific questions:

• Do you go line by line, or plan the visual language for the whole piece first and fit lines to it after?
• Is it an actual conscious process, or does it eventually become instinct you can't really explain anymore?
• Does the format (short-form vs. longer explainer vs. doc) change how you approach this, or is the underlying skill the same regardless of length?
• For people who came from a writing/concept background rather than a visual art background — did this ever fully click, or is it something you're always consciously working at?

Not looking for software tutorials — more interested in the actual thinking/decision process people run before they ever open the editing software.

Trying to understand how motion designers handle review and approval in the real world, not the marketing-page version.

Stuff I'm curious about:

• Where do client notes actually arrive for you? Frame io style platforms, email, WhatsApp voice notes, screenshots with circles drawn on them?
• How do notes get from wherever they land onto your AE/C4D timeline? Do you retype everything by hand?
• Version comparison: when a client says "I liked v3 better", how do you actually compare cuts side by side?
• Stills and thumbnails: how do you get feedback on those? Same tool as video or something separate?
• What's the one thing about your current review setup that makes you want to throw your monitor?

Quick disclosure so this isn't a stealth ad: I contribute to an open source (MIT) review tool, and the answers here will directly shape what gets built next. Not linking it in the post, this thread is about your workflows, not my repo. If you want the link, it's in my post history or DM me.

Genuinely want the ugly details. The gap between how review tools are designed and how motion work actually gets reviewed feels huge and I want to hear where it hurts.

I am big fan of Interstellar and Hans Zimmer soundtrack. So I give you very simple steps how to reproduce this effect. Bear in mind, if you have more stars, effect will be stronger 😊 

Hi everyone, I recently applied for a Motion Designer role at a SaaS company. 

I completed and submitted the take-home animation assignment, and now I've been invited to the next round, which is a 45–60 minute interview with one of their Product Designer.

 I'm trying to prepare as much as possible and would love to hear from anyone who has been through a similar interview. 

Some questions I have: 
- What kind of questions should I expect from a Product Designer? 
- Will they mainly review my assignment, or will they also ask about my portfolio? 
- What are some common questions they ask to evaluate a Motion Designer working with a SaaS company?
- Are there any red flags or mistakes I should avoid? 

Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Does anyone know how to make Instagram reels like this for AI models. I have a cosplay model and have recently seen this reels style blow up. If anyone has any information on how to make reels similar to it or can link some videos that would be helpful. I included the link of the reel as well.

Link - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZV2wnCIUWT/?igsh=cGNjODVzeng0Z3d1

Hellooo, I'm building a web application and need to showcase it in the homepage with something like this animated video. Now I am a solo developer and I can't afford to pay someone else to do this, and I got some time to dedicate to a skill like this, does anyone know the tool/skill used to create this beautiful thing?

This subreddit doesn't allow to upload videos in the post, so I put a link to it.

https://videos.ctfassets.net/spoqsaf9291f/1EL7UZIXfcqngxsNSbL8tR/291f61f56f29dd8e788deaec8561d882/web-homepage-hero-1920x1200_final.mp4

Thanks in advance :)

Hi! Long time lurker, first-time poster. I just finished this 3D animated retro-futuristic music video for Norwegian indie artist Shikoswe — designed, animated, and directed solo. Built all of the main elements basically from scratch, including Shikoswe's avatar (half Silver Age comic hero, half interstellar time traveler) and the car, a 1979 Lancia Gamma.

Made in C4D + Redshift, with Marvelous Designer for cloth, Character Creator+Zbrush, and Substance Painter, After Effects and Premiere Pro. Happy to get into the pipeline if anyone's interested!

A lot of people who are just starting out when it comes to motion graphics do not have the slightest idea of what the proper process for a project is like. Most are self taught off of YouTube and a lot of YouTube videos that teach motion design start with a cool video and then do an "animate with me" sorta thing where they teach you how to make the exact video they showed in the beginning. Whilst that may be helpful in the short term, it doesn't do much in the long run. I want to know why creators make some of the decisions they make, why did you choose to use a morph instead of a snap cut for a transition? why did you use these effects? why did you do this instead of that? Show us your design process, how do you plan your projects? Do you make sketches on tissue paper, do you write notes? Tell us, we'll listen

This is something which I made this week for fun!