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How to Win in 2024: Actionable Tips for Motion Designers

Dive into the essential strategies for motion design success in 2024 with our latest podcast episode. We explore how to become a versatile 'full stack designer', embrace AI, and effectively network to stay ahead.

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Essential Blender Techniques Tutorial: Modeling, Lighting, Shading, and Rendering

Get started in Blender CRAZY FAST! Dive into this engaging Blender tutorial with Elijah Sheffield, and tackle the foundations of 3D modeling.

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The Past and Future of Motion: Simon Robson on AI, Evolution and Staying Curious

Join us as we dive into the world of motion design with Simon Robson, exploring the evolution from early 2000s experimental scenes to today's AI-driven creative production.

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Sew What!? 3D Stitching Tutorial in Cinema 4D

In this Cinema 4D tutorial, David Rickels shows you how to bring a logo on screen and have it threaded to a cloth - super useful for sports and other broadcast graphics So pull up a chair and grab yourself some Gatorade and Crackerjacks. It's game time baby!

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2023 in Review: Motion Design Tools, Trends, AI, the Economy, and more!

Discover the year's most significant developments in motion design with the School of Motion's annual podcast, featuring industry experts and insights into the impact of economic shifts, emerging tools, and AI on the field, offering a glimpse of what's to come in 2024.

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School of Motion's Spectacular 2023 Holiday Card

Join School of Motion in celebrating the holiday season with our Alumni Holiday Card, featuring 60+ animations from creative pros spanning 18 countries, all under the theme 'In 2024, I want to do more…'.

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Is this the new Flash? Rive and the future of interactive design

Discover Rive's transformative impact on motion design in our latest podcast with CEO Guido Rosso. Explore how Rive, advancing beyond Flash and Lottie, empowers designers with real-time interactive animation, a groundbreaking state machine, and a future-focused approach.

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Cinema 4D Shadowbox: Window to Another World

Transform a 2D shadowbox into a 3D masterpiece by crafting unique spline shapes, extruding them in C4D, and bringing your creation to life with dynamic lighting and textures.

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12 Days of MoGraph Giveaways 2023

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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The Future of (Mobile) VFX: Simulon has Arrived with Divesh Naidoo

Dive into the world of mobile VFX with Divesh Naidoo on this week's podcast. Discover Simulon, the app revolutionizing VFX by bringing it to your phone. It's not about replacing your tools but enhancing your creative process. Perfect for both skeptics and enthusiasts, this episode is a candid, nerdy exploration of new possibilities in VFX.

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Our Black Friday Sale is On Now! Get 25% Off Everything!

Black Friday Alert at School of Motion! Enjoy a massive 25% discount on all courses and workshops, including the newly revamped After Effects Kickstart and Cinema 4D Basecamp.

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Procreate Dreams: The 2D Animation Revolution for Digital Artists

Discover Procreate Dreams, the revolutionary 2D animation app from the creators of the legendary Procreate. We got on the line with James Cuda and Claire D'Este, the minds behind this game-changing software. Explore the journey from Procreate's humble beginnings to the iPad Pro revolution and the birth of Procreate Dreams.

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Our Most Popular Mograph and Animation Courses, Remastered!

Get ready to fuel your mograph and animation skillset with the epic reboot of our hottest beginner courses: After Effects Kickstart and Cinema 4D Basecamp! Mark your calendars – classes kick off on January 8th.

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How to Land Big Clients: The Art of Mograph Biz Dev with Joe Nash

Join us as we dive into the art of creative business development with Joe Nash, the ex-Director of Business Strategy at Buck. Joe dishes it out on building strong relationships, matching clients with perfect creative solutions, and mastering the business side of the evolving creative industry.

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Motion Graphics just got WAY FASTER!

Motion Designers Dan Maurer & Kris Bargen of Cart and Horse show you why Unreal Engine is the next generation mograph tool you’ve been waiting for. Sure, Unreal is crazy fast at rendering 3D graphics, but that’s just the beginning. This video shows you 5 reasons Unreal should be your next 3D application.

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Motion Design as a Subscription Service? Austin Bauwens of Ravie Studio

Join us as we dive into the inspiring journey of Austin Bauwen, the self-taught mograph mastermind behind Ravie Studio. From humble YouTube tutorial beginnings to working with big-name brands, discover the secrets behind the rapid rise of this North Carolina-based motion design studio.

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Design an Animated Eye in After Effects

Want to learn how to create an animated, blinking eyeball in After Effects? Want to give it a spooky vibe? If you answered yes to both of those questions (and we know you did), this is the motion graphics tutorial for you!

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Create Multi-Dimensional 3D Typography in Cinema 4D

Learn the secret to creating advanced 3d type in Cinema 4D with this in-depth video tutorial on multi-dimensional typography.

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Can Motion Design be Inclusive AND Profitable?

In this week’s School of Motion Podcast, our Director of Community, Brittany Wardell interviews the founders of two studios leading the charge on Inclusivity in the motion design industry.

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Make an Instant Jungle in Unreal

In this video, Jonathan Winbush will show you some of the awesome new additions to Quixel Megascans including preanimated trees and show how to quickly create a forest using the Foliage Brush in Unreal Engine 5.

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And the SOMtember winners are…

The winners of are SOMtember contest are in! Thank you to everyone who participated!

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TUTORIAL The secret to Isometric Mograph in After Effects

Isometric imagery is everywhere - video games, animation, motion design and more. If you’ve ever tried to create your own, you know it can be surprisingly challenging. In this video, Mahmoud Fawzy shows you how to easily design and animate isometric text and logos, using some of the new 3D features in After effects. You’ll be up and running with Isometric designs in no time flat! (see what we did there?)

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3D Camera Tracking In AE And C4D With Graham Hutchins

Get ready for a family-share sized portion of awesomeness in this C4D + After Effects tutorial by Graham Hutchins! You’ll learn how to 3D camera track in C4D, how to create a dynamic particle system that rains tacos (or whatever 3D object you want) onto the ground, and how to believably composite your CG elements with live action. Don’t forget to tip your waiter!

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How to Design for Animation with Ordinary Folk

In this interview, Joey chats with Ordinary Folk’s Jorge and Avi about the design of this project. They’ll also go pretty deep into the weeds about how they manage client projects, how their design process works, and how to get a job at Ordinary Folk.

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Maxon Drops New Cinema 4D 2024 Update!

It’s that time of year where Maxon jumps all the way ahead to the year 2024 for it’s latest Cinema 4D update. Headlined by the updated rigid body simulation system and Redshift finally being anointed as the default renderer, C4D 2024 includes a bunch of quality of life features including dramatic increases to the interactive performance of Cinema 4D.

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Sculpting Creatures for “God of War: Ragnarök” and More

Luke Starkie on how he got into the gaming industry and his work on some of the best-selling video games ever made.

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Design at High Speed: How Justin Harder Gets $hit Done fast for Marvel, Apple, SNL and Nike

In this episode of The School of Motion Podcast, Joey interviews director/motion Designer Justin C. Harder, who has worked on title design for Deadpool, SNL, Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, and Amazing Spider-Man 2, with incredible clients that include Disney, Nike, MTV, Apple and much MUCH more.

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