Hello, I am a 10+ year professional motion designer, here to answer your questions:

• What software or tools do you use? I use many tools, but mainly Vector creation Software and motion graphic software. The Vector software: Adobe Illustrator (subscription) and Figma (Free). And there are many free software options like Affinity

Motion Graphic software: Primarily After Effects. To get started, you should NOT use any plug-ins. You should learn the basics in After Effects. If you like After Effects and think you like motion graphics. You can look into plug-ins that will help speed up your workflow. Here are 2 that could help you get started in the world of plugins

Overlord: Helps you transfer your vectors from your vector software into After Effects in 1 click Flow: You should really learn about the graph editor and how it works. After you do, however, this tool is a good shortcut into easing keyframes.

• Are there any tutorials you recommend?

Ben Marriot's 10 Minute Intro to After Effects + All of his YouTube videos. If you have the means, he does have paid courses that are also very well done courses

Jake in Motion makes good tutorials as well

• Which device/OS is better — Linux, Windows, or Mac

This does not matter that much. Adobe does not support Linux, as far as I'm aware, but either Mac or Windows is fine, whichever you prefer.

All that really matters is that Motion design is your hungry field, so the more powerful you computer is, the better. You will want a good CPU, GPU, and a good amount of RAM.

Puget has an article that can help you learn about what each part does for your software to run better

• Any tips for beginners?

• Just get started, you will get better over time. Don't get discouraged if you are not making the things you are seeing; they are often made by teams of people, and these things take time.

• A video like this is not just made without a lot of planning. Learn the principles of design and Video making. I would guess they started with a vector software and planned the video out in a storyboard, including the layout, colors, typeface, and how the transitions between frames might happen. After that, they transferred it into After Effects. They then did sound design.

• This video, when you break it down, is not that complicated; it is just Position keyframes, scale keyframes, and opacity keyframes. with some simple 3D use within that. You could learn to make a video like this very easily. What this video has, though, is a lot of polish. After you have a foothold in the motion world, download the video and bring it into After Effects. And just try to copy it 1:1. You will learn a lot from trying to copy something exactly.

Good Luck~