So this is a weird one, and not so much advice, but rather personal experience that may well resonate with some of you, and potentially be beneficial.

I got into table top gaming a few years back, my first game being a Kickstarter campaign I backed for a cool little spa...

One of the first things we learn as animators, is how to animate a bouncing ball. It's one of the simplest forms of animation, yet displays many of the key principles, such as squash and stretch, anticipation, arc, exaggeration, timing etc.

The way this is often taught,...

Believe it or not, there is a way to create complex and completely custom animations, without using a single keyframe.

I wanted to glance over an area of animation that is often overlooked, and sometimes even deemed a bit of a 'cheat' in the animation world, and that is the use of 'guides'. Now I'm not talking about the blue guides you pull from the rulers in After Effects, I'm referri...

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, video games were a huge part of my childhood, and I still regularly dust off the SNES for a bit of Contra or Super Mario Kart. So when a project comes along that requires a retro gaming style, I jump at the opportunity.

I'm...

After Effects is many different things for many people, for some it's a powerful motion graphics tool, to others it's an intuitive character animation program. One thing it isn't though, is a high end 3D program. After Effects certainly has it's limits when it comes to...

How this one attitude to life can be particularly beneficial when applied to your motion graphics (or any type of creative work for that matter).

For many motion graphics designers and animators, one of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks is the character walk cycle. Each character will react differently when rigged, and as such, there isn't really a fool proof method that works everytime. Some characters...

As motion graphic designers, one of our biggest hurdles can be our own inspiration. It's not something you can force, and usually (for me at least) inspiration will come randomly when I least expect. When it does come along, we tend to grasp it with both hands and imme...

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