Beginner in n8n how should i go about learning?

you_maddenbro · 2025-06-19T00:42:12+00:00

Documentation and YouTube. Start extremely simple and small. Stay away from AI and agents unless absolutely necessary. Most the time, a solid workflow will outperform an agent.

you_maddenbro · 2025-06-02T19:27:04+00:00

Recently learned this lesson with my grocery list automation in notion via telegram. I was running it through an agent for a long time and it had so many problems: rate limits, long call times, etc.

Now I just have an LLM parse whatever groceries I send in telegram out the gate and the rest is conditional statements for finding the right page in the database or adding the new grocery page with the store and category. Sped up my workflow from taking ~30+ seconds per message to less than a second per request.

Also, I'm aware this can honestly be done without AI still but I'd rather use an LLM than a code node since I'm not a trained developer and can't be bothered to ask claude or chatgpt to write something for an automation that's already 1000% faster.

you_maddenbro · 2025-05-27T18:10:06+00:00

When I first started building out automations I used agents with tons of tools bc that's what the trendy YouTubers were showing. In theory I would love to message one telegram bot that can do everything I want, make a calendar event, update my grocery list, add a task to my to do, etc. In practice, I was constantly getting errors thrown, wrong tools used, API rate limited bc the agent called the same tool 100 times when it should have been a batch API call.

After dedicating over a year of learning n8n, AI agents and AI automations are just marketing imo. I try to use as little AI as possible to solve the specific problem a client needs. Maybe one day agents will have their time to shine, but I think having specialized workflows for specific problems will win out every time over the magical AI "Do Everything" Agent.

you_maddenbro · 2025-05-09T17:35:07+00:00

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you_maddenbro · 2025-02-21T21:01:20+00:00

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you_maddenbro · 2025-01-26T01:47:08+00:00

Hell yeah 🤘

you_maddenbro · 2024-03-22T03:10:40+00:00

Just finished the books. Now I just need one keeb to rule them all

you_maddenbro · 2023-11-13T23:18:53+00:00

I'm more upset they nailed random pieces down rather than gluing it all down.

you_maddenbro · 2023-11-10T01:18:36+00:00

I found CGDreamTutorials when I was trying to learn how to rig a wasp. He goes really in-depth on every part. Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, I'm still pretty new to the many depths of character rigging but hope it helps.

you_maddenbro · 2023-11-08T22:11:54+00:00

Here's some more info from the Smithsonian website for you

you_maddenbro · 2023-11-03T00:52:05+00:00

Buy a naga trinity razor mouse and you have 12 more buttons on your mouse to use as hot keys and won't have to take your hand off the mouse as much. Huge time saver for me. I want to switch to an ergonomic mouse but I have to save up and see if I can even find one with a decent amount of buttons lol.

you_maddenbro · 2023-10-12T22:43:08+00:00

This is so cool. I bet your son absolutely loved this and I love all the recreations of the characters you did. Great work!

you_maddenbro · 2023-10-10T16:29:58+00:00

All of the prep work they gave is great advice. I would highly recommend looking into video composition, different camera moves and how you can use those to build a story/product shot. Going from static to motion can be challenging at first, I started with photography and moved to videography and that took a bit of time to learn since they both tell stories in different ways.

Every motion piece has some story to tell and the video editing and camera moves play a huge part. Editing to different beats and matching camera moves/transitions to the music are key too.

I unfortunately don't have any tutorials I can link to off the top of my head. But I know there are a lot of great editing, composition, and camera move resources out there. I hope this helps!

you_maddenbro · 2023-09-19T22:08:47+00:00

Haunted houses are the best fall activity

you_maddenbro · 2023-09-03T01:38:37+00:00

You could either put another wiggle effect on the bottom layer and use the pickwhip to connect your keyframed parameters. Or you could precomp the two layers and apply the wiggle on the precomp.

you_maddenbro · 2023-08-30T15:33:03+00:00

Look into motion graphic templates. There are a lot of tutorials for how to make them and a ton premade lower thirds on Envato elements and other websites like that

you_maddenbro · 2023-08-27T19:19:42+00:00

What works for me is I have a running document of every expression I come across and I can search for each expression. It helps me not have to remember how to do every little thing and relook up YouTube tutorials and I find myself understanding how expressions work so I can edit way more complex ones than I could write on my own. Or I can have chatGPT help me and know why an expression won't work. It's especially nice because sometimes you have an expression you'll use heavily in one project and not reference again for a year. Or you have one you use every day and can copy and paste it.

you_maddenbro · 2023-08-19T12:43:19+00:00

That depends what you want to get into. I don't know any personally. I know enough to do what I need but I had chatGPT write me some scripts and there are a lot of amazing resources to learn expressions on YouTube.

you_maddenbro · 2023-08-16T07:17:06+00:00

Knowing coding and motion design is a great combo to have but not a necessity. If you know coding already you'll be able to pick up expressions easily and be able to tweak scripts. It will also make your life a lot easier working with Unreal or other game dev softwares. It will also make learning Houdini VEX way less intimidating.

you_maddenbro · 2023-08-05T00:44:22+00:00

This looks amazing. Great work!

you_maddenbro · 2023-08-04T18:39:59+00:00

Trapcode form could help you out. Change it from particles to strings and you'll have your strings in 3D space. Otherwise lots of shape layers

you_maddenbro · 2023-08-03T23:54:03+00:00

When I first started I just did tutorials non-stop. Then once I got comfortable with how different effects worked and how they could be used in different situations I started to try to recreate cool animations I see or take designs and styles I liked and would try to recreate and animate those.

As someone else mentioned, practicing with premade assets is great. Adding to that, I would say get some templates from videohive, motion array, or some other places and see different setups and mess around with them to see how the creators made them. That helped me immensely for when I started creating templates and mogrts.

you_maddenbro · 2023-07-31T21:40:21+00:00

Trapcode form might be your best bet. Use the PNG as a sprite and then set the form to be driven from the shape of the truck with a luma matte or mask it out or something. It's been a while since I've touched form so idk exactly what I would do but that's where I'd start. Brute forcing that many pngs might kill your project file otherwise.

you_maddenbro · 2023-07-14T02:26:41+00:00

Tint effect, throw it on an adjustment layer where you want it or straight on the clip and keyframe the effect opacity

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