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Learn How to Merge 2D Cel-Style Animation with Your Cinema 4D Renders

Merging 2D and 3D animation is one of the most popular styles in motion design these days. With this pro-level workflow, learn how to merge your Adobe Animate animations with your Cinema 4D renders in After Effects.

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Illustrating and Animating Characters With After Effects and Procreate

Character design is one of the most rewarding and fun processes in the motion design world. It becomes even more fun and rewarding when you learn to animate them. Here’s how.

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Making A Character In Blender For The First Time

Blender isn’t as intimidating as it may seem. In fact, we’ll show you how to make your first character all in one video, even if you’ve never opened blender before.

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With PenPal 2 You Can Make Making Paths Suck Less

Custom paths in After Effects is a bit of a drag (literally, you have to do lots of dragging). Luckily, someone made a tool that makes it so much easier.

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Everything You Need To Know To Make Web/UI Animations With LottieFiles

Motion Design and Animation have become a huge part of web and UI design. LottieFiles is a big part of that. Here’s how to get started.

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Quick And Easy Looping Animation With Blender's Geometry Nodes

As intimidating as they may be, learning how to use Geometry Nodes will unlock a whole new world in Blender. Here’s a quick beginner level set-up that can get you started.

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How To Create A Custom 360° Skybox In Seconds With Skybox AI

With this AI tool you can dream up entire worlds new horizons with just a few moments and an imaginative prompt.

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AI Tools For Motion Design That Are Actually Helpful

With AI news continuing to dominate the worldwide news-cycle, one wonders, “What do motion designers specifically get out of all this?” Here are some of our favorite AI tools for Motion Design.

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The Making of ‘Evenveil’

Rainfall Films’ Sam Balcomb explains the process behind their award-winning fantasy short.

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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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