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Celebrating 30 Years Of After Effects With Over 30 AE Tutorials

After Effects is now 30 years old, but it still has plenty of gas left in the tank. If you want to learn, there is no better time than now.

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3 Key Ways Pro Freelancers Find Clients on LinkedIn

Here are three ways you can find clients on LinkedIn using the front door, the back door, and the secret side door.

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How To Get Any 3D Scene Into Unreal Engine 5

Here are the steps to bring any 3D scene from your app of choice into Unreal Engine to real-time rendering.

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The Blender To Unreal Workflow — A Combo To Die For

Blender and Unreal Engine are two free-to-use tools powerful on their own, but when they work together they're truly magical.

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Going Viral: Behind the AI-Generated Wes Anderson Trailers for Star Wars and LOTR

Our dear friend, Caleb Ward, from Curious Refuge joins us on this episode of the School of Motion Podcast and talks shop on their recent viral success with two AI Wes Anderson inspired trailers for Star Wars and Lord of The Rings.

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This Can't Be Unreal!? | The C4D To Unreal Workflow

Get your scene out of Cinema 4D and into Unreal Engine without losing all the hard work you’ve already done.

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Cinema 4D's Answer To Inflation

Maxon has been on fire with their new Cinema 4D features and with this one, no one will be complaining about inflation. In this video, EJ Hassenfratz runs through the functionality of this new tool that is sure to pump you up!

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C4D’s New Flake Shader is LEGIT + More Cool New Features

Maxon has just announced their spring 2023 updates to the Maxon One subscription. Every tool from Cinema 4D and Redshift to ZBrush and Universe scored some new features that will make creating just a bit easier and faster.

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Dylan Cole: World Creator

Have you ever thought about the 3D world building magic behind the blockbuster Avatar series? Meleah Maynard interviews 3D Artist and painter Dylan Cole on his concept wizardry and journey in creating immersive worlds beyond imagination for films such as Daredevil and Lord of The Rings and Avatar.

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Work Faster in After Effects and Premiere

Wanting to work faster in After Effects and Premiere? The Essential Graphics Panel is about to become your best friend, whether you’re using or creating Motion Graphics Templates (aka Mogrts), or just looking for ways to streamline your work within After Effects. Kyle Hamrick is back to show you the ins and out of this often underutilized feature.

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What is 3D Rigging for Animation?

Is 3D character rigging always hard and complex? 3D Character rigging is an important step that is often overlooked by 3D artists due to it's perceived complexity. In this article, EJ Hassenfratz breaks down how rigging doesn't have to mean Pixar level complex character rigs, but a discipline that can be super accessible. From simple rigs made from deformers to joint chains, this article will show you why 3D rigging should be a part of any 3D artists skillset!

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How To Rig A 3D Model

Some artists think that rigging is stingingly painful. We think that’s a load of beeswax! That’s why we’ve enlisted 3D character artist Can Erduman to show you how easy rigging characters can bee as he walks you through rigging your very first character in Cinema 4D! I don’t know about you, but we think this video will get a lot of buzz!

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Is Blender Hard?

Blender 3D is a powerful and versatile software for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. (Oh and did you know that is is free??) However, it has a reputation for being challenging for beginners to learn due to its steep learning curve and complex interface. In this article, we will explore the difficulty of learning Blender 3D and what resources are available to help people get started.

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Design & Animate Your Own Logo From Scratch

Wanting to design and animate your very own logo, but not sure where to start? In this tutorial, Matthew Corrales guides you through the process of finding an idea, refining the design in Adobe Illustrator and animating in After Effects.

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School of Motion Course Credentials

Show off your badges with School of Motion's new verified credentials! The most important part of your education is preparing you for the real world, but bragging rights are great too. That's why we're now offering verified credential badges with your completed courses.

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Titanfall New Frontiers

The bridge between motion design and gaming is becoming increasingly more apparent with artists using real time game engines like Unreal Engine 5 to create stunning 3D content. In this article Michael Maher interviews film maker Caleb Chamberlain on how he created a passion project trailer for the smash hit video game: Titanfall New Frontiers and how Unreal Engine, Blender, Adobe After Effects and some visual effects magic using the Red Giant suite got the job done.

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Building the Ultimate After Effects Computer

How do you make After Effects run fast? We teamed up with Puget Systems and Adobe to develop the fastest computer for After Effects.

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AI: An Artist’s Friend or Foe? Discussion with Dan Jeffries, CIO of Stability.ai (Stable Diffusion)

Joey sits down with Daniel Jeffries, CIO of Stability AI, to discuss the real-world use cases of artificial intelligence in art and motion design.

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2022 Year in Review

What even is motion design anymore? Joey Korenman is joined by EJ Hassenfratz, Kyle Hamrick, Ryan Summers, and an all-star lineup of studio owners & industry experts for their hottest takes on this year’s burning questions.

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The School of Motion Alumni Holiday Card 2022

Over 70 School of Motion Current and Former Students Collaborated on the Annual Animated Alumni Holiday Card Video!

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12 Days of MoGraph Giveaways 2022

It’s the reason for the season – School of Motion’s 12 Days of MoGraph giveaway! What’s on the prize list this year? It’s motion graphics galore, from generous gift cards to popular courses to year-long software subscriptions.

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What are the Differences between the Jobs of an Animator and a Motion Designer?

What are the differences between the jobs of an animator and a motion designer? The main difference is the type of projects they work on, the specific skills and techniques they use, and the career path and job outlook for each profession. Both careers involve creating moving images and graphics, but the specific tasks and responsibilities can vary.

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How to Create Viral VFX

In this tutorial, we will recreate one of Peter Quinn's amazing VFX social media videos. We'll go through the entire process from filming, compositing and to final looping magic. Buckle up cause it's gonna be a ride 😎

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3D Character Design in Adobe Illustrator

Turn your 2D art into 3D! Learn how easy it is to turn 2D vector art into 3D character designs in Illustrator! Learn how to map 2D textures onto your 3D models in Illustrator and discover how to export your 3D character to other 3D applications like Adobe Stager, Blender or Cinema 4D! 3D is a super important skill to learn and Illustrator makes it easy for any 2D artist to enter the world of 3D.

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2022 Deals for Motion Designers

Get out your wishlist. We've gathered our favorite Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for motion graphics artists!

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Fire, Smoke, Crowds and Explosions

From humble beginnings to award winning video games, ActionVFX has found it's place in the VFX world with Fusion, Nuke and After Effects Artists using their asset libraries.

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Getting Started with Pyro Fire Simulation | Cinema 4D 2023.1 Update

Cinema 4D 2023.1 introduces Pyro, the new fire simulation system that allows you to create fire and smoke simulations easily in C4D! That’s right, the new C4D particle based simulation system now has the ability to generate fire simulations and you can finally unleash your inner pyromaniac -natively- inside of C4D. In this video, EJ walks you through how to use Pyro, how to render with Redshift and how to create more stylized smoke and fire along with his thoughts on Pyro.

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