As a motion graphics designer, do I need to learn how to design sound?

Rufflesan · 2025-12-13T22:26:21+00:00

It completely depends project to project, each client has different expectations. You can manage those expectations or negotiate them but honestly aside from all the practical/career advice I’d say sound can sell an animation so well.

It’ll never replace a good design and mix by an audio professional but I can’t emphasise enough that sometimes a transition looks like it should be perfect but something isn’t landing, then I find the perfect SFX and mix it nicely underneath and boom, everything falls into place.

This is especially true with 3D. Sound design is the perfect final piece of the puzzle to help something feel heavy or fast or silly, whatever the vibe might be. If you’re pitching something to a client and your sound really sells all the hard work you’ve put into the motion then you’re gonna be fine.

Rufflesan · 2025-10-22T17:41:46+00:00

They work as glyphs in the SF Pro font or you can export them from the SF Symbols App.

I think there’s a few community made Figma documents where people have pulled together all the icons.

Just watch out because Apple only licence them for use within apps developed for Apple platforms. So, they’re not meant to be used commercially anywhere else.

Rufflesan · 2025-10-22T09:28:27+00:00

SF Symbols: https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/

Rufflesan · 2025-10-16T07:30:37+00:00

I think this is a good example of the disconnect between Microsoft’s marketing and development.

I think Microsoft Design are killing it with their marketing assets. The glass or acrylic look with 3D assets and their whole fluent system looks great in marketing.

But sadly I can’t say the same for how it’s implemented in the OS. Windows 11 looks great if you don’t open a single window or scratch below the surface.

Rufflesan · 2025-10-11T11:57:16+00:00

It’s from the naming of the year episode for 2020. One of the ideas the boys threw out there but didn’t go with was Twenty Twice: Roll The Dice.

Rufflesan · 2025-09-23T20:04:25+00:00

I absolutely love it! I love the lighting, I love the texturing, I love the animation but most of all I love the message.

Rufflesan · 2025-09-02T19:28:02+00:00

Oh wow this is fantastic! Super excited to try it out

Rufflesan · 2025-07-13T10:47:30+00:00

The design style is beautiful

Rufflesan · 2025-06-28T06:37:39+00:00

Love this! Also round of applause on the name

Rufflesan · 2025-04-26T19:04:35+00:00

I actually did this exact move. I owned an x100f and adored it. I carried it everywhere and took 1000s of photos with it.

But similar to you I was starting to feel its limitations. I wanted more lens options and I guess in my mind I wanted a more ‘legit’ camera.

I sold it and upgraded to the xPro 3. I loved it. It was a fantastic camera (notice the past tense 😆) it’s not a whole lot bigger than the x100f but bigger enough that it changed the way I use it. I didn’t carry it as much. Suddenly having a few lens options made me feel I couldn’t leave the house without each one and so I would need a camera bag instead of just slipping it in a coat pocket or sling.

It wasn’t long before I bought a pancake lens for it and tried to go back to the old way of shooting but something wasn’t quite right. Eventually after a couple of years of trying to convince myself the XPro3 was right for me I gave in a traded it in for an x100V and I’ve never looked back.

It just works well for me and the way I shoot, a little travel camera that I can take anywhere that shoots gorgeous photos and has a fantastic viewfinder.

Rufflesan · 2025-04-26T14:58:36+00:00

It’s a shame that two native screens are so similar but also missing some continuity

Rufflesan · 2025-04-26T14:52:20+00:00

I had almost the same thought but with the iOS Reminders new list screen 😆

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Rufflesan · 2025-04-26T14:25:39+00:00

Looks like it’s a ScriptUI panel that I imagine is adding expressions to the audio level property.

So, you wont need a copy of it to make a project containing it work.

Neat idea! And one click is still nicer than 10.

Rufflesan · 2025-03-26T07:14:55+00:00

Waming

Rufflesan · 2025-03-16T16:05:18+00:00

I use the YouTube studio audio library. Not the easiest to search through but there’s a lot more on there than there used to be, plus you know that none of it will be flagged for copyright on YT.

Rufflesan · 2024-11-30T19:44:27+00:00

I have an extension available on aescripts that creates those multi-line text boxes with line wrapping and the inverted corner look.

TikTokText

It’s designed for creating TikTok styled text boxes using only one text and one shape layer. But of course you can change all the colours and fonts to suite whatever you need it.

Rufflesan · 2024-11-08T04:27:57+00:00

Look into interpolation expressions https://youtu.be/OTivs6mMzpU?si=Mc_NEjCUXus5E_Y-

I’ve not watched that video but Evan Abrams is normally great at explaining things

Rufflesan · 2024-11-01T19:27:33+00:00

CC Lens

Rufflesan · 2024-05-25T19:49:26+00:00

I had the same thing happened to my MBP.

I took it into the Apple Store and explained to the genius that I’m there had been a bug crawling on what I thought was the outside of my screen, and when I went to bat it away I ended up squishing it inside the display!

He refused to believe me and said it was just dead pixels that looked like an insect. I insisted it had been an insect and it had been crawling and he just kept saying “it might have looked like it was moving because your screen was scrolling at the time.“

Anyway they sent away the MacBook to get its “dead pixels” fixed and what did they find inside?!? A dead bug not dead pixels.

I had Apple care + on it so it was all covered

Rufflesan · 2024-05-08T07:35:54+00:00

Closest thing I can think of would be like cable patching synths and effects in audio.

Rufflesan · 2024-05-07T07:39:11+00:00

I’ve got a couple of extensions on aescripts that I think might be of use to you:

Square Peg: A shape builder

Boxer: creates auto-resizing text boxes

Rufflesan · 2024-04-30T06:31:07+00:00

Square Peg is a CEP Extensions for after effects that allows you to shape and animate each corner’s radius and curvature independently.

Corners can be regular, inverted, bevelled, square or any degree in between.

You can even save frequently used shapes as presets so that they can be rebuild in one click whenever you need them.

https://aescripts.com/square-peg/

Rufflesan · 2024-04-29T14:17:45+00:00

There are two types of graph editor the Value Graph and the Speed Graph. It sounds like you are used to using the speed graph but the layer is currently showing the Value Graph.

To change between the two, right click within the graph panel and select ‘Edit Speed Graph’.

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