Hello, so I’m new to rigging and looking for some help. I’ve seen tutorials on YouTube already but none of the videos I’ve found so far are tutorials for rigging a character similar to what I’m attempting to do. I want to animate mini mario and if you’re familiar with the character, in the game it's a toy and they march. So I want to do an animation of mini mario marching but when I’m on duik angela, I’m not exactly sure how to set up the rigging? I’m confused because he has no joints, the toy is just marching with its limbs very straight. So in duik- should I add only calf and foot bones? And for the arms, just forearms and hands? In the photo attached, I didn’t remove any bones yet just in case but I’m pretty sure this is wrong since the knees don’t need to be bending in the animation. I’m so sorry for the novice question, if anyone can help, I’d deeply appreciate it, thank you in advance.

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I'm about to move into an artist's studio, what kind of things will be useful or are likely to trip me up?

I know what I need for my artistic practice quite well (although tips would be welcome) but I'm thinking things like a kettle, bin, storage hacks, etc.

Trying to find jobs and most people say Cinema4d is the industry standard, along with the Adobe suite. With the massive draw backs of price for cinema4d and the non updates Adobe gives, I want to stray away from those programs.

Will primarily using programs like Blender and nuke hurt my chances of a job?

And how do you guys see the field in the future with blenders updates and usability?

This is what I have at the moment but in the text below, I'll bring you through my thought process briefly and please feel free to critique and give me advice! (PLEASEEEE I NEED IT)

https://reddit.com/link/1cdhr06/video/brebwbtnqswc1/player

I started off in illustrator, trying to imagine the beats and how it would look like. The whole theme is circles, so I experiemented with circles here and there in illustrator but this is as far as I got to.... unfortunately...

https://preview.redd.it/ohe241dtqswc1.png?width=1575&format=png&auto=webp&s=065f010d360e54e41531920c63a4cac751b832ef

Somewhere at the 3rd frame, I just gave up. So I decided to "you know what, let me just bring it to After Effects and see what I can do". Oh I also decided to switch aspect ratio. After some experimenting, I got to what I have at the moment, . And I got stuck again.

Okay, so apart from the question in the title, I have a 2nd question, how do you come up with eye catching ideas that are on style/brand and captures attention? Like do you correlate certain things with the beats? Do you just use abstract ideas and link them together?

And my last question is how do you come up with amazing styleframes and not think of how you would animate it? Because I always design with the animation in mind, which I feel could affect my design choices in the preproduction phase... or am I just thinking too much lmao

Here are the styleframes from the video itself.

https://preview.redd.it/l70ptbjctswc1.png?width=3240&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1b533ad394f29d9dac91632ed31ebee549f2624

Just wanted to mention that https://ravie.co/ is a huge inspiration here, been following u/Wells_Fuego's works.

Hi all,

Sorry if this is not appropriate for this sub but I’m hoping that more experienced designers and animators can help me out. I work in a very small team of a company’s communications branch in an industry not well known for being on the cutting edge of digital media/marketing.

And by small, I mean I’m a junior animator (graduated 9 months ago) and I’m also the only animator on the team.

We currently have a very segmented and (in my opinion) ineffective overall team strategy that very much limits our collaborative potential with the social media team, our events team, and even our design team. (We have two full time designers who I have never even talked to).

We currently function under a director model, where I report to a director and a producer who create content ideas mostly for our YouTube channel, which does not get a lot of views and has a very limited audience potential, because company bureaucracy keeps our team from having very much creative control at all.

I hope that is enough detail without getting overly specific about what it is I do haha.

Now, I know I was hired mainly to push pixels, but I really feel that if we pivoted to work as more of a studio model, we could increase collaboration and overall effectiveness of our work.

I was doing a lot of research on Buck and Vucko and other shops and seeing how many cool projects they do that I feel like we could implement in an albeit limited capacity if only we were able to collaborate more freely within the communications team, thus bypassing the wider company bureaucracy that keeps us from ever having a coherent and effective YouTube strategy.

The thing is, I could look for another job I guess but I actually like where I work and as we all know, there aren’t a lot of jobs out there. That’s kind of the other reason I feel like I need to have this conversation with management, because I feel a constant worry about being laid off (and not just me but my whole team) because I don’t think the company gets very much return off of what limited work I’m able to do in my capacity at my job right now.

So, with all that being said, TL;DR: is it possible for a junior team member to have a respectful conversation with management about pivoting overall team strategy, and how can it be done in the most effective way possible?

Right now all I’ve got is a slide deck of a bunch of projects by bigger studios and my pitch is basically: “look at what they’re doing, we can do something kind of similar if we approached our work in a slightly different way - and I think it will make our work better.”

Hello!

So I am currently 23 years old and have been working my first motion design job for almost a year and a half. I’ve been doing motion design since I was 15 and also went to college for animation/motion design. However, when I was 12, my parents took me to 3D animation classes on Saturdays at a local college that was aimed towards children. Here, we learned Cinema 4D, and while I always wanted to be an animator, I believe this is where my passion really started.

I’m now at a point where I feel confident enough in my skills that I could teach, and I’d really love to introduce kids to motion design and animation the way I was introduced as a kid. I love kids, I’m the oldest sibling of 3, 1 of which is much younger than me, and I used to be a camp counselor during the summer. However, I have no teaching experience.

Has anyone else taught similar classes for children? How did you get started? What experience was needed? How did it go?

And lastly, where did you guys find any open positions? Or did you have to petition places to let you teach such a class? I’d contact the college I used to take classes at, but unfortunately I now live in California and that was in New York.

Thank you!

Been doing mostly 3D motion graphics / design for over 12 years now at various small ad agencies / client based studios. Always had an art director of sorts above me, but never been promoted to one, mostly due to stagnation in the growth of the small company (an art director never left or moved up in my time at a place before I moved on). Reaching that point in my career where I feel like I am plateauing skill-wise and salary-wise. Enjoy the design and 'look development' process but lately have just lost the drive to learn new software / techniques that seem to change and update every month and with AI on the horizon I feel overwhelmed by the notion of the rapidly changing 'technical skill-set' landscape changing even faster. Wondering how I can pivot my career in a way where I am not the 'grunt laborer' anymore.

Long story short, I applied to a bunch of jobs and got accepted by a social media marketing company to make 10 - 20-second ad shorts for them! (ps. I think it is a small company but not sure).

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But because I don't have much experience working in this industry I don't know how to set my prices

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Could you help me estimate based on this sample that I made for them: https://youtube.com/shorts/lZXPPAWlMUI?feature=share

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I tried to help myself with this website (https://getwrightonit.com/animation-price-guide/) but I think it is super unrealistic since it said I should charge 600 dollars for this.

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Extra info: They want to do 5+ videos a month.

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Thanks!

Hi !

I was just wondering if you guys knew how to automatically apply certain textures to certains parts of a video, on After Effects if possible.

For example, if you look at the image (or the video (cf "Rebels" on behance)), there's pattern of dots that only applies to bright parts, and patterns of stripes that only applies to dark parts...

https://preview.redd.it/9gyrz54finwc1.png?width=1107&format=png&auto=webp&s=1fb4a076d598981a7c399e060f6cbc917cee9320

I am sorry if it's unclear or if it's a dumb question I'm still learning lol

Thanks for reading.

https://preview.redd.it/8ocsf4q1nhwc1.png?width=396&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee4ff8a7d95c6988b1ae77d067e38a48aeb641d5

I thought it was a tessalation, but don't think that's it. Also, any idea how I can achieve it with an animation simply? Cloning?

Hi, I'm in school for Digital Art and Design. And my main goal is to get into motion graphics, medical motion graphics specifically. I'm in Florida btw.

Not sure how to go about it and looking for pointers to narrow down my research.

I want to know how to get in this field to just animate. Most that I'm seeing are saying to become a medical illustration which require heavy art which I don't have yet and the school is in a different state.

Just looking for different pointers, advice on how to get in the field without going to another school yet and accumulate more debt.

Thanks

Showreel 2024

Hey, I recently made a new showreel of a lot of my motion design and other filmed stuff. Any comments would be appreciated!

Hi there! Seeking advice or tutorial links for how to create this logo animation: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/839569555533499128/

I tried creating trim paths in AE and creating nulls from the paths, but it doesn't hit the same. Wondering if there's a plugin that creates a magnetic connection between objects?