15 Mins Every Day to Become a Better Motion Designer?
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Motion Design
In August I set myself a challenge of doing a timed animation every day.
In this video I'll talk about some of the animations, and why I think doing timed exercises are beneficial. I've always done timed animation exercises with students when I've taught After Effects, but I'll give them an hour or more. Then I saw this side project from Ryan Plummer: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/alumni-spotlight-ryan-plummer
So I thought aha! I can do one a day for a month and no student can ever complain when I set them timed exercises in future.
Full rules are below for anyone wishing to try this for themselves, but essentially you have 15 minutess from start to finish to create an animation on a random theme.
I used this site to pick the theme: https://thestoryshack.com/tools/theme...
It gives a few options, but I had to pick the TOP of the list.
RULES
- You have 15 mins from start to finished animation. You don't need to render it, just have your animation done, ready to RAM preview.
- A random theme generator picks the theme. You have no idea what it will be before you start. It gives you four
- Use any software, but bear in mind this is animation, not still. I work quickest in After Effects so that's my weapon of choice.
- Any collection of imagery or other resources has to be done within the allotted time. This can be from the web or saved on your computer, and includes stock footage or photos and textures.
- You cannot pull in any ANIMATED files or assets from old projects, but you CAN import or open old files to grab expressions or scripts.
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► The Video Shop Long Play: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCWa...
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► Full workflows of all 31 animations: https://youtu.be/bK0IClASY2k
► Download the FREE project files: https://thevideoshop.gumroad.com/l/jvzei
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► Subscribe for more tutorials like this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuJ...
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► If you have any questions just let me know in the comments.
► Find me: https://linktr.ee/TheVideoShop
In this video I'll talk about some of the animations, and why I think doing timed exercises are beneficial. I've always done timed animation exercises with students when I've taught After Effects, but I'll give them an hour or more. Then I saw this side project from Ryan Plummer: https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/alumni-spotlight-ryan-plummer
So I thought aha! I can do one a day for a month and no student can ever complain when I set them timed exercises in future.
Full rules are below for anyone wishing to try this for themselves, but essentially you have 15 minutess from start to finish to create an animation on a random theme.
I used this site to pick the theme: https://thestoryshack.com/tools/theme...
It gives a few options, but I had to pick the TOP of the list.
RULES
- You have 15 mins from start to finished animation. You don't need to render it, just have your animation done, ready to RAM preview.
- A random theme generator picks the theme. You have no idea what it will be before you start. It gives you four
- Use any software, but bear in mind this is animation, not still. I work quickest in After Effects so that's my weapon of choice.
- Any collection of imagery or other resources has to be done within the allotted time. This can be from the web or saved on your computer, and includes stock footage or photos and textures.
- You cannot pull in any ANIMATED files or assets from old projects, but you CAN import or open old files to grab expressions or scripts.
=============================================================
► The Video Shop Long Play: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCWa...
=============================================================
► Full workflows of all 31 animations: https://youtu.be/bK0IClASY2k
► Download the FREE project files: https://thevideoshop.gumroad.com/l/jvzei
=============================================================
► Subscribe for more tutorials like this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuJ...
=============================================================
► If you have any questions just let me know in the comments.
► Find me: https://linktr.ee/TheVideoShop