FREE project file available on my Gumroad! Check Behance for it

Hey guys! Just posted my new project on Behance. It would be great if you could take a minute to check it out, you can also get a free Gumroad project file!

Thank you!

Salut tout le monde 👋

Je débute dans le motion design et j’essaie de mieux comprendre comment se déroule un projet de A à Z.

J’ai surtout une question sur la partie storyboard : comment vous procédez avant de commencer à animer ?

Est-ce que vous faites d’abord :

• un script ou une idée détaillée ?
• des croquis/thumbnails ?
• un storyboard plan par plan ?
• une animatique avant de passer au design et à l’animation ?

J’aimerais vraiment comprendre votre workflow, de l’idée de départ jusqu’à l’animation finale.

Si vous avez des conseils, des exemples de workflow ou des ressources à recommander, je suis preneur 🙏

Merci !

Open to critique

Hello,

I'm trying to make this effect of the multi line stroke displacement effect that that is happening in this Spotify video. I've tried using Turbulent Displace and messing around with displacement map, but its not really working. I felt like I've made something similar in the past thought accidental.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/Daxio9wOJUv/

Any tips? Thanks.

felt like I learned a lot with this one, as I'm still a little new to motion design! Especially with the 3D camera and page turning, that was a real challenge for such a small shot, if I was to remake this I'd definitely explore concepts & different shots more in the storyboarding phase

I goofed a bit here.

I've had two projects with a "new" client this year. This is via a creative director I used to work with from another company.

On my first job, I forgot to add in the clause stating project files are not included. I revised this but of course still somehow emailed the first version of the quote. This was during a rebrand and 100% established the typography principles they will be rolling with in the future. It also included a treatment to the logo that I'm now questioning if it they will be using it as a hero logo bump. I think their plan is to take my treatments and start duplicating them on the cheap through a cheaper guy. This is a fairly large company (probably $40M annual revenue)

She surely expects them to be included since that was the case with the previous company I worked with her at (a client of many years ago who I'm still locked into that agreement with). Of course, many clients expect them and I've found myself losing a good chunk of revision work to them passing my files off to someone else.

The second project was a rush job in which I was assisting someone else who they hired, providing motion design assets to their video editing work.

They are now requesting source files from that last project to leverage in a new video with this other dude.

We scoped out a timeline and everything on a third project before, but they've delayed it for months with little to no communication, finally replying that they still intend to do it at some point. They are also very slow with payment, sometimes taking 1-2 months and multiple reminders to close out my invoices. I'm not crazy about my experience working with them so far.

That said, I did fail to communicate this specific item and I'm thinking I should just bite the bullet on what I failed to mention and send over the files.

That said, with a rather slow year these past months, I'm treasuring every invoice I'm able to send. I'm not particularly confident in future work with them anyway.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone! I’m having an issue with LottieFiles, and I’m wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.

I’m trying to download a free Lottie animation. The animation is clearly labeled “Free,” and the download section has a regular “Lottie JSON” option without the Premium/crown icon.

However, when I click Lottie JSON, the LottieFiles Premium subscription popup appears.

I’m currently on the Free plan, and according to LottieFiles, Free users can download up to 10 public animations per month. I haven’t downloaded any animations this month, so I should still have all 10 downloads available.

I also tried clicking “Save animation,” but that also brings up the subscription/upgrade popup.

Has anyone experienced this recently, especially in September 2026?

I've been studying these frames for sometime now trying to see if I can figure out how they did it. I'm still pretty new to motion design so if anyone could help out I'd really appreciate it.

Was this done by hand or is this something they did procedurally.

I use cavalry so I'd like to know if there is a way to do it procedurally

Thanks

Hey everyone! I spent some time cleaning up my workflow and realized Adobe shipped a few tiny native features that replace stuff I used to need expressions and paid scripts for.

Thought I'd share the actual breakdown, since they flew under the radar with all the 3D/SVG talk:

1. Proportional Scrubbing:

Select multiple layers, hold Ctrl + Alt (Win) / Cmd + Option (Mac) and drag any numeric property like Opacity or Position.

Instead of setting everything to the same value, AE spreads it proportionally from your first-selected layer to your last. Works on keyframes too. Select 10 layers with the same drop animation, hold the shortcut and drag the keyframes to get a perfect cascade.

Tip: The order you select matters. Top-to-bottom vs bottom-to-top completely changes the spread direction.

This one alone replaced my staggering plugin.

2. Copy Frame to Clipboard

There's now a button in your Comp panel that copies the current frame to your clipboard as a clean render. No more Composition > Save Frame As...or screenshots full of guides/nulls.

Just park your playhead, click it, and Ctrl+V straight into decks, communication, anywhere. Super handy for storyboards and quick client checks.

3. You can finally edit Illustrator gradients natively 

If you import art with gradients, right-click the layer > Create > Create Shapes from Vector Layer > delete the extra group.

Now under Gradient Fill, you get full control over Scale, Rotation, Opacity, Start/End points.

All inside AE. No need to jump back to Illustrator to tweak it.

4. Crop Comp to Selected Layer Bounds

Not brand new, but they finally put it where you need it. 

Select any layer > Right-Click > Crop Comp to Selected Layer Bounds and AE instantly resizes the comp to that layer's exact size.

Perfect for cleaning up pre-comps for icons, character parts, or reusable assets. No more manually creating a new comp and copying layers over.

None of these are flashy features, but together they've cut a lot of annoying busywork. 

If you want to see real examples, you can check out the full breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y4hveZUvY4

Been talking to a bunch of animation grads lately, mostly people a year or so out, and I keep hearing the same thing in different words.

Ask what they miss and it's never the classes. It's the structure. Knowing what today's task is, what tomorrow's is, and having an actual sense of how you get from a blank page to something finished. School hands you that without you noticing. Then it's gone, and suddenly you're the one who has to build the whole path yourself, alone, with no idea who else nearby is stuck on the same problem.

Talked to two different people, two different schools, and got almost the identical answer without prompting either one. That's not a coincidence, that's a gap nobody's naming.

Everything that exists to fill it half-works. Job boards assume you already know exactly what role you're looking for. Discord's a coin flip on whether the right person ever sees your post. Neither one replaces what actually made school useful, which wasn't the degree, it was having a team and a process built in.

Ended up building a competition around that exact idea, teams working through animation production stage by stage, so it's not one person carrying everything alone. Recruiting 30 team captains right now. UMDB, if anyone's curious: umdb.org

Genuinely curious what other people did to solve this after graduating, if anything.

This project took me 5-6 months, not due to technical issues, but because I kept second-guessing if I actually liked it. Eventually, I just decided to let it go and post it!

Thank you!

Take a second and check out my Behance for more!

Quanto dovrei chiedere per l'editing e il motion graphics di questo video? (100% faceless come potete vedere, Il cliente mi da solo il voiceover e io penso a creare le varie animazioni, testi, grafiche, sound effects ecc.)

Designing it in the software was the easy part 🥲 

this my first time doing motion design , i do have years of experience in editing various styles but im now thinking about turning it to an motion design career. this is my first project in this style which took me around 5 days , need advice from those who actually have years of experience in this field and is it okay to take 5 days to make something like this or am i too slow and plus what type of content should i focus as a starting motion designer, what's the niche in high demand and all etc.. planning to do freelancing rather than inhouse, has 0 work experience tho this is like my fresh start, and how much shud i or would you charge for this? hope this reaches the experienced editors in the same field.

Been doing motion design for a bit now and I still don't know where to find founders/startups to pitch my services to consistently. All I do right now is post on a discord servers and hope somebody finds me. I want to try cold emails and social media outreaching but I don't know where to start.
My portfolio: https://exclusivelynihal.framer.website/

Focal length changes more than just how much of the scene fits in frame. A wider lens exaggerates depth and makes camera movement feel more dramatic, while a longer lens compresses space and can make the same movement feel much flatter. That's why choosing the lens early can completely change the feel of a shot.

There's an animation I made recently. I wanted to ask how to add shake to composition so when the star drops screen shakes and after that bar appears. Any feedback is appreciated, especially on what I could improve.