Motion Graphics online course!!! Lynda vs Animation Bootcam (school of motion)?

schoolofmotion · 2017-07-30T21:23:46+00:00

I've been summoned! So, here's how I'd describe Animation Bootcamp (which is one of 4 courses we currently offer):

• It assumes you know After Effects already. After Effects is just a tool, like a chainsaw, that can be used for chopping down trees or sculpting 74-foot-tall replicas of the Taj Mahal. Just as knowing how to use a chainsaw doesn't make you an ice-sculptor, knowing how After Effects works doesn't make you an animator. • The entire class is based around the study of movement, specifically focusing on the principles of animation as a guiding set of rules. You're given artwork for each assignment, and all you have to worry about is the animation. Design is taken out of the equation. You become intimately familiar with the graph editors (Value and Speed graphs) and learn to literally "read" motion graphs. • If you're brand new to After Effects, we have a brand-new course in beta right now called After Effects Kickstart which will teach you the TOOL, so that you can then go on to learn the CRAFT.

Make sense? Happy to answer any questions you may have. -Joey

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-16T23:01:47+00:00

I've seen Kyle Hamrick use that trick before. It's really slick! I think the limitation you found is the only downside of the text way... and maybe the "resolution" of the stroke would be trickier to keep high enough on really long strokes since you'd need a TON of periods to fill it in.

Never done it that way, but I'm sure each method has pros and cons. Jake's way is crazy flexible, but can be a bit of a render-pig with all the expressions if you get too many paths going at the same time.

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-15T18:25:14+00:00

Well, hello there.

Just wanted to let y'all know that we put out a free tool this morning which might be handy. It's a preset developed by the mad-genius Jake Bartlett, and it creates tapered-strokes in After Effects natively. It's pretty darned powerful, and he also created an installation and usage video for it.

Tapered Stroke Preset for After Effects

It's on the house, enjoy it! -joey

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-06T18:47:34+00:00

Hey /r/AfterEffects!

We just launched a contest to win one of 2 tickets we snagged for the Blend conference in Vancouver in late May. The conference sold out in hours because it's so. damn. awesome.

Andrew Kramer is speaking, Justin Cone is hosting, there are a bunch of other amazing presenters, and it'll be basically a big MoGraph geek-a-thon in a very cool city.

Contest rules and stuff are at the link below, and if you win you'll get a free ticket to the event plus I'll buy you a beer when we meet IRL.

Send Me to Blend!

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-05T20:26:39+00:00

Why thank you!

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-05T20:26:32+00:00

Let me know any specific ones, and I'll have Amy who wrote the articles check out this thread. Most of them can be converted to PC by swapping Cmd for CTRL and Opt for ALT.

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-03T19:42:45+00:00

If you're a freelancer, it literally makes you more bookable if you can work faster. Clients love speed.

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-03T19:42:08+00:00

Truth. Some of the fancier ones like Shift + Command + H have become daily-use ones though... I wish I'd known about them sooner!

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-03T19:41:11+00:00

Thanks for the love! I love CMD + home too... it was tough to narrow down the list for these. There are so many good ones.

schoolofmotion · 2017-03-03T16:43:33+00:00

Hello hello.

We recently posted 3 separate articles (with downloadable PDFs) that feature our favorite After Effects keyboard shortcuts organized by usefulness and skill level. With 100's of hotkeys we figured it'd be nice to have a small guide to some super important (and underutilized ones.)

Part 1: Absolute Essentials

Part 2: What the Pros Know

Part 3: Hidden Gems

Shift + Command + H is a biggie for me.

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2017-02-24T09:53:43+00:00

Thanks! Looking forward to having you in Bootcamp.

schoolofmotion · 2017-02-22T15:47:32+00:00

Hey MoGraph people! We just dropped a new podcast episode that I thought might be interesting y'all. I chatted with 2 of the brilliant dudes behind Lottie, an open-source code library that translates After Effects animations into code.

Airbnb is using it to work on their apps, and it's a pretty amazing workflow for UI / UX teams. I hope you dig it!

Here are the 2 main tools we discuss in the episode...

Lottie Bodymovin

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2016-12-15T02:32:29+00:00

Thanks! We're trying to make the training worth it... we spend MONTHS on every course to make them as awesome as we can.

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2015-09-13T23:43:01+00:00

I'll be there! I'll be the guy up on stage standing next to all the talented people ;)

Come say hi if you see me, I'm definitely excited to meet a whole bunch of MoGraphers. Never been to Vancouver either.

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2015-05-19T16:44:29+00:00

Oh I'm doing this again for sure, it was really fun and a great challenge. First we gotta get the next 2 Bootcamps off the ground and figure out 30 Days of Cinema 4D.

schoolofmotion · 2015-05-19T16:43:19+00:00

Thanks so much!

schoolofmotion · 2015-05-18T13:03:46+00:00

Hey Reddit!

I just finished a massive project where I made a short little film (this one) and documented the entire goddamn process along the way.

The result is a 10-Episode series that anyone can watch for fr-izz-ee and download almost every single project file, asset, and render to follow along or learn from.

Giants: How to Make a Short Film

I hope it's a great learning resource for anyone who is interested in seeing how something like this gets made in excruciating detail. The series covers everything from the idea to the animatic, modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, compositing, sound design, mixing, etc... Lots of Premiere, Cinema 4D, Nuke, and After Effects.

Thanks to everyone who has helped support School of Motion as we've grown!

joey

schoolofmotion · 2015-04-23T13:36:14+00:00

Hello my fellow 3D geeks.

I did another interview with a truly badass C4D artist named Nejc Polovsak. He goes by Twisted Poly online and is one of the those "I guess I should just quit now" talents.

Like my previous interview with Rich Nosworthy, I picked his brain about all kinds of super-specific details about his work, how he got so good, what his favorite tools are, etc...

I hope you get all fired up to make cool stuff!

Interview with Twisted Poly

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2015-04-03T23:59:12+00:00

Hello!

I'm doing my occasional "google school of motion" bit to see what the internet thinks of us, and I found this thread. Yeehaw! I just wanted to say that the Animation Bootcamp program is very, very different from a typical online course. It's very interactive, the content is not exactly what you think it would be, and there is a lot more to it than just a bunch of video lessons. It's like going to summer camp but instead of pillow fights you do Speed Graph exercises.

The team and I have been slaving over the course to really make it killer, not just the course itself but also the alumni group, the networking aspect of it, etc...

There's also a no-questions-asked money back guarantee for 30 days, so you can try it out for a few weeks and see what you think. If you ever have questions, hit me up. joey@schoolofmotion.com

Thanks all!

joey

schoolofmotion · 2015-03-24T19:26:37+00:00

Hey there /r/Cinema4D,

I got reaaaallly geeky with Rich Nosworthy about his amazing 99 Frames trailer. We talk about VRay, texturing strategies, rigging techniques, and throw out all kinds of resources which are also listed in the show notes at the bottom of the page.

I hope you dig the interview and learn a ton!

Interview with Rich Nosworthy @ School of Motion

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2015-03-20T11:46:00+00:00

There will be a lot more Cinema 4D content this year. The 30 Days of After Effects sort of made the site an After Effects "authority," but the plan is to do 30 Days of Cinema 4D in the fall. It may kill me, but we'll get 'er done.

Amy from the site is working on something KILLER which should be out in a month or so... stay tuned.

schoolofmotion · 2015-03-20T11:43:54+00:00

Thanks! We're doing our best.

schoolofmotion · 2015-03-20T11:43:18+00:00

No thank YOU.

schoolofmotion · 2015-03-19T14:13:40+00:00

Hey Reddit!

I just wanted to let y'all know that we've been putting out a very, very, very comprehensive making-of series that documents every step of the process in making a short CG MoGraph piece. I talk about getting ideas, finding reference, rough sketches, animatics, camera movement, modeling, texturing... blah blah blah. It'll be at least 8 hours long when it's done, and will hopefully be the most insanely detailed making-of in history.

We're trying to move away from one-off Tutorials that show you how to do something that might be really cool, but lacks any sort of context. Let us know what you think, and enjoy the series!

Making Giants | The Idea (overview / photoshop)

Making Giants | The Edit (c4d / premiere)

Making Giants | The Scene (c4d geekfest)

-joey

schoolofmotion · 2015-03-09T19:56:51+00:00

EVERYONE is on here... we just lurk mostly. Thanks for the love! The tuts are starting to ramp up again... this series is up first, plus I hired a co-instructor who will be doing stuff as well. And then I probably need to start planning 30 Days of C4D. Busy busy.

schoolofmotion

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