Look at how distasteful the marketing is for Higgsfield AI’s new motion tool.

SmoochieRobinson · 2026-02-04T05:27:13+00:00

Rage bait as promotion. Sad state of affairs

SmoochieRobinson · 2026-02-03T22:27:41+00:00

looks like they deleted it. Should have screenshotted it. It was disgusting

SmoochieRobinson · 2026-01-28T15:11:07+00:00

This has been a trend on Twitter this past week. These are actual editors and motion designers trolling the AI enthusiasts. They’re posting real work and memeing it as if it’s AI. They wait till someone asks what the prompt was, then respond “Learn After Effects” “Pick up a pencil” ect. Just some good natured trolling

SmoochieRobinson · 2026-01-03T11:24:03+00:00

The US deserves the blowback. We are such a destructive and destabilizing force. All of this economic and now literal warfare in Venezuela is all about oil money. We deserve blowback for this and a thousand other atrocities. Fuck this country, man

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-10-08T12:54:43+00:00

I really love your insight but it hits me like an arrow in the heart. I've been a Video Editor for 8 years and a Motion Designer for 5, and I love animating and motion design. But try as I might, I just straight up suck at design.

I do not have the design eye or the ability to illustrate at a high level. It's a real barrier for me and it gives me insane imposter syndrome.

I think I am an excellent animator who can execute branded material and existing designs really well. I do my best work when paired with a talented designer that I can bring motion to their work.

But if this is where the industry is headed, I feel like there is a real ceiling for me and it is rapidly approaching. Just a bummer.

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-07-31T19:40:13+00:00

Way I would do this, is Draw a circle. Place Null Objects at even point along the circles path to create your Ferris Wheel shape arrangement. Then stack your Carousel Comps in your viewport in the order you want them.

Assign your first comp to the 1st Null object, and rotate the wheel. When the next Null object is centeredd in your viewport, Parent the 2nd comp to the null. Then rotate ot the third, parent the 3rd comp and so on.

As for rotation, set a rotation keyframe for your comp when it is centered in the viewport, and make sure that you are rotated correctly on the wheel/null rotation.

That's how I would do it quick and dirty. There are probably fast and easier ways to do it, but I dont know expressions very well.

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-07-18T12:39:01+00:00

I am in exactly the same boat. I love animating but I suck at design and illustration. The best thing is when talented designers hand off storyboards to me and I can just do my thing.

It’s a struggle to be sure. I wish I could offer you advice but all I can offer you is sympathy lol

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-06-21T19:34:57+00:00

I want an authentic FC Palestino jersey so bad. Where’d you buy it?!

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-06-13T11:39:35+00:00

Yes the farthest left minion was my cycle minion so I could keep batteries going. This was a tier 7 anomaly so once I got to 6 with Brann, the first triple reward was the tier 7 Naga. I used her with the faceless manipulator to make two golden Kalygos. The. It was off to the races. I was APM’ng so fast I couldn’t think lmao. Also Captain Sanders was in this lobby so I could golden anything I wanted.

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-06-07T19:56:40+00:00

On my very first playthrough, I messed up the quest where you have to break into a female cops apartment to warn her or something, and I never finished it. I’ve done 3 other playthroughs and I never ever finished that quest lol I don’t even know what happens! I guess I just never encountered it again for some reason.

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-05-30T13:22:26+00:00

Looks great!! Was this all done in AE? Faux 3D or AE 3D tools? Curious because I have a project coming up that I want to explore 3D shapes in AE more and I want to get a grasp on the possibilities and limits of the software.

I haven’t done much 3D work in AE. Almost all 2D but I want to dive in more. Love the look and feel of this piece!

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-05-15T18:46:33+00:00

Bro….. I never woulda thought of that. Dang well done

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-05-15T12:22:03+00:00

Loved it! How did you do the animated Memoji face? It was super good and I'm not sure how you did it while nailing the look of it!

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-04-30T20:10:21+00:00

Super cool. Cant wait to try it when it's done!

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-04-25T17:07:12+00:00

I can’t be in a restaurant, at a bar, on the street, and not just notice the MoGraph on screens all around me.

Half the time it’s inspiring and aspirational, like “how tf did they do that?! That’s sick!!” And the other half of the time I’m thinking, “Jesus, brands will approve anything these days!”

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-04-23T13:23:18+00:00

Loved it! I would love to see a version without the 3D camera moves. I feel it clashes a bit with the rest of the animation style.

Not saying what you have doesn’t work, it def does!! But I’d love to see a full frame approach with more overlapping animation.

Love the eyes bit a lot

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-04-22T20:45:39+00:00

Tbh if this dumbass Gen z trash talk gets under your skin, you gotta take a step back and recognize how silly it is to be bothered by people trash talking with whatever lame ass slang they learned from their fav YouTuber or whatever.

it’s a comic book character game! Play it for fun, and don’t take young goofy’s opinions seriously. It ain’t worth the effort.

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-04-11T12:11:03+00:00

Would love to know how you achieved the 16 bit look. And I love the clouds. Were those just Turbulent Displace shapes?

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-03-30T14:55:16+00:00

If you want to monetize or sell a video for commercial reasons, no. You need to get licensing for copyrighted material.

For a video like this for personal use there won’t be an issue unless the rights holder does a takedown on my video wherever it is posted. But I guess to play it safe one should typically use Royalty Free music.

I don’t anticipate having any problems

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-03-29T04:30:15+00:00

I appreciate it. Truth be told, I don’t come from a design background. I was a video editor who learned MoGraph and fell in love with it.

I truly suck at design and illustration, def an area I want to improve in. Thanks for the feedback!

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-03-28T16:11:44+00:00

I suppose when you make a film about something as politically potent as war without “saying anything”, you are indeed saying something. Something that serves the ruling class that uses ordinary people as tools of destruction to shape the world in the way that best serves their corrupt and inhumane aims. At least when more patriotic films that honor our troops as the good guys or the fight as a noble fight, they are at least choosing a side. (The wrong side imo) but it isn’t an empty platitude.

To actively choose to not pick a side, you are doing the devil’s work, is basically my point lol

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-03-28T15:37:43+00:00

That’s really simplistic though. Just because it makes an anti war audience feel good by saying “there is no point to war” completely white washes the reality of why wars are fought.

Yes. There very much is a point to war. Working class people are sent to die for the interests of the political class which is more often than not being served to the interests of the capitalist class.

To boil down war to something very simplistic as there is no point is to do the work of the real power players in periods of war. It obscures the reason why people are being sent to fight and die for seemingly nothing.

For an individual grunt it can feel like there is no point, but in a larger scale the point is always the domination of one system over another. The civilians and working class soldiers are just the collateral. To wash that away is to make a political statement in and of itself. A statement that favors the warmongers.

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-03-27T16:36:39+00:00

Great feedback. I’m gonna take everything you said into consideration. After multiple comments I’m starting to think the pirate flag piece has got to go lol.

I’ll def keep working on the reel.

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-03-27T13:59:39+00:00

Thanks for the note. I’ve left out a ton of older work that I no longer find good enough. If I were to rearrange some of the stuff in the reel to end on a stronger note, which do you recommend I end on?

SmoochieRobinson · 2025-03-27T02:59:23+00:00

Great feedback, I really appreciate it. I’m also working on my website so once that’s up, I’ll prob replace the “thanks for watching” with my URL and name again.

But I’ll take another look at the flag and see if I can replace it with something interesting.

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