r/MotionDesign Jun 25 '23

Discussion /r/motiondesign Updates: Post Flair, Spam Prevention

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Hi all, a few updates for /r/motiondesign.

Spam

In an effort to reduce low-quality and spam posts here, we have implemented new post requirements. New posts that don't meet a minimum account age or subreddit karma threshold will be automatically filtered out.

To further prevent gamification, I am not disclosing these limits here but they are very modest and reasonable. Anyone interacting with this community should not be filtered, and even so, you will have the opportunity to message us for an exception. But this should discourage most of the spam we've been seeing. Thanks /u/Zeigerful for making this post.

Post Flair

We also added some post flair to help differentiate posts and allow users to filter & search by topic. All new posts require that one of the available flair types be selected:

Project Showcase | Reel | Inspiration | Discussion | Question | Tutorial | [Custom] (Where user can input their own)

User Flair

A few new user flairs are available. For those who aren't aware, these show up next to your username any time you make a post or comment in /r/motiondesign

Now available: Professional | Student | [Add My Social Handle] -- A custom text field where you can plug an Instagram, Behance, etc.

Let us know if you love or hate these new updates. Nothing is set in stone and this is meant as a discussion starting point. Please share any ideas you may have to make this a better place to share work, inspiration and discussion related to motion design. Hopefully we can continue to bring a higher quality experience to everyone here at /r/motiondesign.


r/MotionDesign 5h ago

Reel Critical stripper

6 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 6h ago

Plugin DOF PRO (Depth Of Field Generator PRO) v2.0 for After Effects

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r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Reel My first ever Reel

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Feedback is appreciated!


r/MotionDesign 9h ago

Question How Do I create abstract animations like this?

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Can any one tell me the best method to do this or if you know any tutorials that would be great.


r/MotionDesign 21h ago

Project Showcase Spent way too long animating this Live Sync feature but I think it turned out cool

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So I've been building this plugin (Prism) that connects Figma and After Effects, and Live Sync is honestly the feature I'm most proud of you change something in Figma (position, color, text, whatever) and it just... updates in AE. No exporting, no re-importing.

Wanted to actually show it properly instead of just a boring screen recording, so I spent a good chunk of time on this piece. Typography's doing most of the explaining, tried to keep it snappy.

Lmk what you think, especially on the pacing. Still learning a lot on the motion side.

nexthorizon.art/store/figma-to-ae


r/MotionDesign 11h ago

Project Showcase This is the second video criticize me and tell good suggestion

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This is my second short on YouTube I have actually made 6 of them and will upload them to get to know people who are in this field and also in content creation as I would like to have suggestions on what can be improved


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Question Freelance drama - Whats your experience with Los York?

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Hey freelancers,

Bookings/first holds/POs/actual booking confirmations can be a pain in the *** and we all know it. But in my 10y of experience, agencies were always respectful and kept me in the loop weather projects got canceled/scope got smaller/etc etc. got a long term first hold from Los York (a studio I was looking forward to work with) and then got ghosted, no justification, they stopped replying, and in the mean time I lost work with other studios while waiting for answers. Just found it so rude... wondering if that happened to anyone else?

Was I just lucky all this time or is this the new norm?


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Pixel Flow - Pixel Art Animation & Sound Combined Timeline Demo Video

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pixelflow.neuorix.com project of mine I have been working on! Give it a look, pixel art, animation, sound studio , 3d voxel drawing and animation, add them all into the same timeline to make animations with sound, all free in your browser! Pretty proud of it as ive drawn and made games for years! always wanted a tool like it and always wanted a quality FREE drawing tool for pixel art so here it is pixelflow ;)


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Zombie Skeleton Crawling Visual Loop

8 Upvotes

Hey! I put together a bundle of 4K VJ loops (abstract, particles, neon, geometric, cinematic, etc.) that I think could be useful for your sets. The files are royalty-free, seamless loops.


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Question What’s the hardest part of motion design that tutorials never really teach?

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I’ve been working in motion design for years and also teach motion graphics, visual communication, and media psychology at a university.

And the more I teach, the more I notice a pattern:

A lot of people can follow tutorials. They can use the software and recreate effects. But when they start with a blank comp and have to make actual decisions, many get stuck.

Not on “how do I animate this?”
But on questions like:

  • Why this typeface and not another?
  • Why does this composition feel balanced?
  • Why does this color choice feel trustworthy, energetic, or calm?
  • When does motion support the message, and when is it just decoration?
  • How do you know whether an animation is actually solving a communication problem?

I’m not asking because I want to validate a course idea. I’m asking because I don’t want to build another resource that only teaches software tricks. The internet is already full of those.

What I’m trying to understand is:
What’s still genuinely missing in motion design education today?
What do people keep struggling with, even after years of practice?
What knowledge is hard to find online, but actually matters in real projects?
And what kind of learning format would you actually pay for in 2026?

If you had to name the biggest gap between “I know the tools” and “I know what I’m doing,” what would it be?


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Procedural Spider-Man logo reveal I made in Blender

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r/MotionDesign 17h ago

Project Showcase Free Logo Demo

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I added an interactive demo to my editing app, where you can swap logo and text and download it, very simple just to show how simple it is to use vidmo.app


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Inspiration Need to find a video as reference for a project

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I saw this guy animation some sort of stop motion with real footage of himself, and I found amazing his style of animation and I want to use something similar for a personal project, but cant find the video anywere

It was him showing his progress on this style of animation, and the recent one was one video of him like changing outfits in a animated style, with a finger whiping and dragging clothes to him, finishing with kind of a joke on perfomative males on social media

Can someone help me find it?


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

[Custom] New Plugin - PreFlight. One button to check your project before you render.

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r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Reel Showreel 2026 & prev. years

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31 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Question How do you decide what visual goes with a line of narration? My brain just freezes

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r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Liquid Logo SFX Breakdown

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13 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Question Please help, I need a Tutor

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I’ve been trying to learn motion design for some months now with YouTube and tbh there’s no clear direction as I do not understand why I am doing anything, I just watch and recreate. I want to learn motion design and do it professionally, so I have to learn from the basics and all… I’ve been looking for a tutor/course that can help and is affordable, it’s been tough cause I don’t want to pay for something and not learn enough. I don’t have enough to just try my luck…


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase I started to make youtube videos feel free to criticize

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This is kinda my goal and also want to showcase my editing and motion graphics,I also intend to improve my speaking, writing means overall storytelling skills tell me if you have any suggestions


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Question Best resources to learn motion design for educational content? (Complete beginner)

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Hi everyone

I’m completely new to motion design and would love some advice on where to start, both in terms of resources and software.

My goal isn’t to create flashy animations or VFX. I’m more interested in simple educational animations, such as:
- Drawing tables and charts
- Animating arrows and connections between ideas
- Simple graphs and diagrams

I’m wondering what software is best for this type of work. Are there good free alternatives to Adoabe AfterEffects , preferably one with a lot of learning resources ?
I tried davinci resolve but it seems overly complex for my use case (just drawing a table took 20 minutes)

I see some creators just use PowerPoint presentations 😅

Any help is greatly appreciated


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Practicing bounce animation (Need Critique to improve)

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Hi guys, im practicing bounce animation and to my eyes it looks okay now but i know it's not that accurate that's why I need feedback from you guys what to improve with my animation, thank you! sorry for my bad english.


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase I used Kimi K3 to reconstruct a 36-second launch film — a breakdown of motion, material, and editorial refinement

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I spent two days reconstructing a 36-second launch film with Kimi K3, using the reference as a formal study in motion language, material response, and editorial rhythm.

Rather than treating K3 as a one-shot generator, I used it within an iterative production loop: source analysis, shot segmentation, code-driven reconstruction, render review, and targeted revision.

The first full pass established the temporal structure, but its visual hierarchy was too uniform. I therefore separated the system into three layers: motion, material, and edit. Camera moves and timing remained procedural; flat assets were replaced with generated textures; and the field sequences were rebuilt as Three.js particle simulations.

I then evaluated matched timestamps frame by frame, correcting shot scale, prop density, transition timing, and depth cues clip by clip. The comparisons below show how those changes altered the visual weight without discarding the underlying motion structure.

For reference-led reconstruction, which variable tends to break fidelity first in your work: timing, material response, or shot density?

1.5s comparison. Left: simplified V1 props; Right: final realistic textures and richer visual density

15s comparison. Left: flat V1 gauge; Right: final metal materials, lighting, and spatial depth

24s comparison. Left: sparse V1 composition; Right: final textured props and fuller framing

https://reddit.com/link/1v2m1ef/video/rqlkrnoprleh1/player


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase I built a free-forever browser-based motion graphics toolkit with no login, no paywall whatsoever. Beta is now live!

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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 template, customize text/colors/timing.

Backgrounds is a builder for mathematically seamless looping backgrounds in any way 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


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Hiring Need help finding an exceptional SaaS motion designer

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Need to hire a really exceptional SaaS motion designer.
Not looking for flashy animations.. just someone who can create a YC level product launch video that's simple, and memorable.

If you have recommendations (or a portfolio), I'd really appreciate it.