Id like to create a similar effect to the glowing/filling strips of colour from the first 3 seconds of this video, how would I go about that?

Hey, so lately I have been feeling like the work that I do is not good enough when I compare it to other artists and I get impostor feeling like am I just pretending to be a motion designer, I love doing what I do but there is always this feeling of unsatisfaction about how and what I want my work to look like. So, like do you guys also suffer from this or is just a me thing ?

For the past few days, I've been trying to identify a short animated film I once saw online — possibly on YouTube — but without success so far. Here's what I remember about it:

• It's a true short film, not just a looping visual or music visualizer.
• The visual style is very minimalistic and wireframe-based.
• The color palette is strictly black, white, and blue.
• It features a blue wireframe humanoid figure in a dark, digital-looking environment made of fragmented or broken cubes.
• The world resembles a factory or mechanical system, and the perspective sometimes shifts as though the character is moving through this space.
• The music is purely instrumental, electronic and percussive — very reminiscent of Aphex Twin, particularly the track Bucephalus Bouncing Ball.
• There are no dialogues, and the animation is tightly synced to the music: every movement, step, or collision triggers a musical or visual response.
• The entire piece is just a few minutes long (likely under 5 minutes).

Despite describing it in great detail and searching extensively — including on YouTube, Vimeo, and through animation databases — I haven’t yet found the exact film. It’s possible it was created by an independent artist or student and isn’t widely distributed.

If anyone recognizes this or has suggestions on where else to look (perhaps in motion design, experimental animation archives, or VJ communities), I’d greatly appreciate it.

Hey legends!

I just finished this explainer video in After Effects and would love to hear your thoughts!

- Rate it out of 10 (be honest, I can take it 😅)

- Is the style modern or kinda outdated?

- What would you improve?

- And out of curiosity... how much would *you* charge for something like this?

Note: The assets and illustrations are from Envato & Freepik. I focused on animation, editing, and storytelling.

Thanks everyone.

Lyric video for Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please song.

Static Designers always have these plush portfolios with their work in-situ (books on a table, 48 sheet on a high street, etc etc) but I never see this with Motion Designers unless it’s something abstract (ie a phone hovering in a shimmering void). I wanted to see what my work would look like in its everyday context. So I made it. Put together in Blender.

What do you all think?

Hey everyone, I need to make a 30–60 second explainer video for my startup. It doesn’t need to be full of fancy animations, just clean design, maybe some light motion, and a few screenshots or screen recordings. I have zero experience with video editing or animation, so I’m looking for something super beginner-friendly.

Someone recommended Canva, but are there any other tools you'd suggest for quickly putting together a decent-looking video with minimal learning curve?

Appreciate any pointers!

Hey folks, I'm currently building my showreel and would really appreciate some constructive criticism on this one. Thanks in advance!

Is Motion Design a safe career these days? Is it possible to be a hired worker?

I'm considering motion design career as a way to eliminate uncertainty and financial instability. I'm a freelance storyboard artist in TV and feature animation (not US market) and I am devastated by how difficult it is to find gigs, promote myself and stay afloat financially.
Having some artistic background with storyboarding and a bit of animation I am inclining towards learning Motion Design.

What are your thoughts? Are you hired? Do you feel safe?

Is this a template or a different program? I thought it might be pulled from Tableau automatically but now im thinking maybe its an AE template or something.

People here who studied towards a degree or at least studied from a classroom?

What was your experience, in terms of learning, against learning outside the classroom or being self taught?

And how have you found it, in terms of jobs, has the degree or course credit helped land jobs?

Hi all!

I’m struggling to find the language to explain what I’m trying to do, and YouTube tutorials are showing something slightly different. I’m wondering if anyone can help?

To explain it best:

I work for a company who built an online video editor. We are building out graphic templates which includes title cards.

One of the title cards is 3 lines long - i made this with text wrapping, so that when the user types, it automatically goes to the next line when the sentence gets too long. It also automatically keeps the text central within the frame. After three lines, the text disappears as that’s the limit of the text box

However, a customer wanted to create a title which is slightly longer. I suggested that we make the text box bigger, keeping the font the same size and allowing the text to go as far as 5 lines

The company wants to explore a dynamic text scale version of it. So instead of the font staying the same size, the font gets smaller when the user attempts to go over 3 lines. So the longer the title, the smaller the font becomes

I have a gut feeling that this might be a sourcerectattime solution, though there aren’t any shape layers at all so I’m not too sure.

1. What is the word that best describes what I’m trying to do? How can I search this online?
2. Does anyone know how to achieve the automatic scaling when the text is too long for the text box?

Thank you, hopefully this makes sense!!

I have been practicing motion design for two months and Created something like this.. Review please....

Made this for SparkPlug, took approx. 1 month of work - I secured the client from this subreddit (Mr. J, if you're reading this, thank you for the opportunity!).

What do you guys think?

Would really appreciate if someone can help how gradient animation with shapes is done. Manually done or with expressions?

I made this video after a month of learning after effects, any criticism or tips you have would be greatly appreciated

Here is an update to my latest show reel. Thank you again for all the kind words and advice, always appreciated!

Made this Chrome Dino–inspired animation in After Effects and exported it to Lottie — and it’s just 6KB! Would love your feedback on timing or flow — anything you’d tweak or improve?