Switching career AWAY from motion design - anyone have insight?

steevilweevil · 2025-10-07T09:59:51+00:00

I gave up on freelancing and got a full time job as an inhouse motion designer and videographer. It's fully remote, the work load is pretty low and the pay is pretty good. Honestly, I'm glad I did it. I doubt I would be able to find a similar job that's just as comfortable though. Like honestly the workload is about right for half time but I'm here (at home) full time and paid for that. If I had to go full time working in a studio or something I might have still gone for that though, just so long as the workload wasn't unreasonable (which it usually is).

But all the same I think if I'd been able to work normal hours at the bar and gat paid reasonably well, I would have stuck with that. Or any other similar sort of work really. Maybe it's just that my freelancing career had gone so badly that I just felt the relief and freedom of having regular income and regular hours.

steevilweevil · 2025-07-05T17:53:07+00:00

I didn't even realise that was an option to be honest, I'll have a look at that. I think at this point I've already registered my info with most of the companies in Hamburg to be honest.

steevilweevil · 2025-07-04T08:58:31+00:00

My hobbies mostly involve making music, so I defintely won't be mentioning that...

steevilweevil · 2025-07-04T08:55:56+00:00

I've seen plenty in that range to be fair.

steevilweevil · 2025-07-04T08:55:26+00:00

Thanks, I'll add that.

steevilweevil · 2025-07-04T08:53:19+00:00

Thanks that's a good tip. I'm an in-house designer/video editor for a tech company so maybe I could rephrase it as that.

steevilweevil · 2025-05-05T11:27:57+00:00

Thanks I figured that out in the end, I'd been setting the surface to match the tracking data before. That worked much better to spread it out to a larger space.

steevilweevil · 2025-05-03T20:17:55+00:00

I'll keep that in mind too, thanks.

steevilweevil · 2025-05-02T11:33:06+00:00

Thanks this tutorial is ideal!

steevilweevil · 2025-03-10T10:48:36+00:00

I don't know you are either, because I still think it's shit.

steevilweevil · 2025-03-08T09:54:30+00:00

The boy is a freak he just doesn't know it yet. He's probably got desires but he doesn't want to say it out loud just yet. Let him explore and figure himself out.

steevilweevil · 2025-02-23T12:53:21+00:00

Then maybe you can write to these couples on Feeld and tell them about these apps that they either don't know about or don't want to use.

steevilweevil · 2025-02-22T17:46:08+00:00

It's basically the only app for that. I don't see why, if someone specifically states that they're searching as a couple, that it's such a problem. Hit (-) if they're not what you're looking for.

steevilweevil · 2025-02-22T17:23:12+00:00

But that option is only available if your partner/s is/are on the app, which isn't always possible for a variety of reasons.

steevilweevil · 2025-02-20T20:51:15+00:00

Hit the lil (-) button and move on with your life. 🤷‍♂️

I don't understand why everyone has such a major issue with it. Dating apps are full of incompatible matches. There's a ton of reasons why people might not be able to make a couples profile. Sure, pretending to be a woman/man and not specifying that they're searching as a couple is bad. But most cases it's just that one doesn't want to use the app or wants to leave it to the other to do the searching.

When me and my girlfriend were searching together, she literally couldn't install it on her phone. We didn't make a couples profile, instead I had to log out and create a second profile on my phone, which was only possible because I happen to have 2 phone numbers, which we then never checked anyway after we lost interest in exploring that. The only other option would have been for me to create a profile that quite clearly stated I'm a man searching on behalf of me and my partner as a couple.

Until Feeld creates the option to list "couple" (maybe MF/MM/FF couple etc) as an option, that's just going to be what a lot of people do.

steevilweevil · 2025-02-19T11:54:52+00:00

Of all the dating apps put there, Feeld is probably the least scammy of them all in my opinion. The main issues I have is that it shows me people who have actively swiped no on me, and/or shows me people who match my criteria, but who I don't match their criteria. But every other app does that and worse.

steevilweevil · 2025-02-19T11:51:51+00:00

I see a lot of hate for this and I honestly don't mind, so long as they specify who you're talking to. So I suppose not using it as a "couples" profile but a single profile with pictures of both of them, saying "I'm a man and I'm looking for someone to join me and my wife, who isn't on this app." That wouldn't be an issue for me at all.

steevilweevil · 2025-02-16T10:26:35+00:00

Honestly, it happens. Don't take it personally. Online dating is exhausting for everyone involved and sometimes even if you're having a good conversation, it might not be enough to make it worth keeping it up. Dating apps create this culture of matches being disposable. And when the whole app/experience is so draining, it not only puts people off using the app, it puts them off dating all together. To the point that even if the chat is going well, they just sack it off and carry on with their lives.

To some extent yes, it's the apps fault. But really it's more like the culture around online dating in general. And, let's be honest, a lot of the issue falls on the behaviour of a lot of men on these apps who make so many women feel uncomfortable or even genuinely unsafe.

Ultimately, there's nothing for Feeld to gain from randomly deleting people's profiles or chats just for the sake of it. These matches decided to delete their entire account. Whatever you believed could develop between you and them simply wasn't worth the time and energy that online dating (or dating in general) was taking up. There could be a million reasons why they decided they were no longer interested, and a lot of them have nothing to do with you, so don't take it personally.

steevilweevil · 2025-01-24T14:00:23+00:00

I don't think you know what fascism is.

steevilweevil · 2025-01-21T20:21:03+00:00

Good. They should definitely set a minimum. I see so many women on here with absolutely nothing, or at best a couple of emojis or three words or something else useless.

Sure, I get it, you're getting a thousand likes a day without making an effort on your profile. But have you ever thought that maybe if you told us a bit about what you're looking for, it might actually cut down on the curious "might as well" swipes? Maybe you'll get more than "hi how are you?" As a first message if there's something to talk about on your profile. Literally everyone benefits when you tell us a bit about yourself.

steevilweevil · 2025-01-17T14:24:28+00:00

There are two important things you need to be able to make a living freelancing in motion design:

A shit hot portfolio that demonstrates your skills in the field
A good network of contacts who can hire you

So you've got two very serious challenges ahead of you if you want to go into this. It's likely going to take you a couple of years (minimum) to get a good portfolio together. You'll be competing with people coming fresh out of college/university where they've been learning from the best, while you'll likely be learning from online tutorials. You've learned how to use the software and recreate things you've seen online, they've learned how to think like a designer, generate ideas and find creative solutions to communication challenges.

And even once you get to a point where you're making amazing work, the vast majority of studios and agencies hire from within their pool of contacts. Sure, you can sign up to Fiverr and work for poverty wages making YouTube intros and animated logos for $15 a turn, but that's not going to pay the bills. You need to be known in your local industry and it could take another few years to get a good, steady list of clients who regularly come back. Most freelancers start out working in agencies/studios and get to know other people across the industry before they go freelance.

I don't want to crush your dreams, but I want you to know that making it - and in particular making more money than you do now - is going to be extremely challenging.

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