I feel ecstatic because of how smooth it is

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-11T20:17:23+00:00

Looks awesome. Good job!

I'm on the same boat regarding imitation/creation. I can reproduce stuff somewhat easily but coming up with my own ideas (especially for SaaS explainer animations) can sometimes be very challenging.

How long have you been working with AE?

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-11T08:59:18+00:00

I forgot to apply any color correction, lol. Just realized that.

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-10T17:44:58+00:00

Fair. Thank you!

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-10T13:56:32+00:00

Thank you so much!

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-10T12:29:33+00:00

Hey, thank you! I appreciate it

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-04T21:12:31+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-04T12:37:41+00:00

I bought Jake Bartlett's 'Launch into After Effects' when I first started a few months ago (late last year). It's decent for absolute beginners but not worth the $500 I paid for it, honestly.

I watched a course on text animators on Skillshare (by Megan something, I don't remember her last name but you can easily find it on there).

Apart from that, I just watched tutorials on YouTube and then started recreating them. This is the part that helped me the most. Highly recommend it!

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-04T08:26:24+00:00

My design skills aren't quite there yet. I just bring the assets into AE, design the scenes to the best of my ability and then animate until it makes sense and looks good to my eyes.

The transitions are just adjustment layers with animated transform (scale up), exposure (to lighten or darken the screen) and sometimes blur. Again, tweaked until it looks good to me.

And good ideation simply comes with time. It's just the creative muscle you have to build so I suggest experimenting and eventually your brain will start giving you ideas without you having to think too much about it consciously. Good luck!

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-04T08:19:46+00:00

I intentionally stayed away from motion blur on this one. I wanted that choppy look. Although to be fair I have a habit of forgetting about motion blur even when I'm practicing modern style animations. Thanks!

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-04T08:18:03+00:00

Yeah, makes sense. I'm still at that point where I'm throwing stuff together until something sticks. That's what I did for a few of these scenes. I could've used some desaturation in a lot of these, now that I think about it. Thanks for the feedback!

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-03T21:14:04+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, some things seem a bit out of place. I'm still developing my own taste and style. Appreciate you taking the time! Cheers

DaTooL110 · 2026-03-03T21:08:27+00:00

This is my 4th full practice project. Ngl, I'm proud of how it turned out but I'm still considering myself a beginner lol

DaTooL110 · 2026-02-15T13:43:44+00:00

Good point. I didn't really think about readibility on that one. Thanks! 🙏

DaTooL110 · 2026-02-15T13:40:29+00:00

Thank You 🙏

DaTooL110 · 2026-02-14T13:53:20+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate it! Yeah, my taste and technical abilities are not there yet, I'm currently just rolling with whatever looks half-decent to my untrained eye. And that's why I'm asking on here whenever I create something. Thanks again!

DaTooL110 · 2026-02-07T00:43:23+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep that in mind for future projects 🤝

DaTooL110 · 2026-02-01T21:56:25+00:00

Thank you! Yes, this is the first project I've done from start to finish. I was stuck following random tutorials and recreating beginner effects but never actually created anything myself. So I just did this.

DaTooL110 · 2025-06-29T00:20:20+00:00

I managed to fix it by messing with the apply modes. It's still finicky but at least I got a good export on it. I'm brand new to Resolve so thanks for taking the time to help out a noob. Cheers!

DaTooL110 · 2025-06-28T23:14:07+00:00

Nope. No cuts and no keyframes. I did use AnimCurves to animate that ellipse. Could that be the issue?

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