Hands up, Who's a self-taught motion designer? 👋 I've been hearing from many motion designers that they have imposter syndrome because they lack official qualifications in motion design. But the reality is that motion design is a still fairly new industry so I would bet most motion designers are self-taught. I studied Film Production at University, and only one of the modules was in After Effects. I am mainly self-taught because I learned most of what I know after my degree. Curious to see how others started and continue to learn motion design. #motiondesign #motiondesigners
🖐🏽 I was doing social media and video production for a microbrewery when a branding company clued me into Blender. I saw just how powerful Blender was for product mock-ups and knew it was a life-changing moment for me. As I progressed in the video world, there was a consensus that motion was something people saw a need for, but almost no one saw how integral it was in all content creation. One of the ways I like to encourage people to combat imposter syndrome is to take inventory- every few months or so, create a list of the projects you made and the skills needed to develop those projects. You'd be surprised just how technical your skillset is, even if you are just starting out in motion.
I am also self taught. Learned through School of Motion a few years ago, coming from a completely different industry. From what I experienced imposter syndrome doesn't come from the lack of official qualifications but from continuously seeing amazing work on social media and devaluating ourselves because of it. The thing to remember here is that you can't be the next best Buck employee of the month if you're doing motion for a couple of years only, and that's okay. If you stick to your animation career it's supposed to be a lifelong path. Ben Marriott once said something that stuck with me since: "There'll always be someone 6 month ahead of you, and there'll always be someone 6 month behind you in term of experience".
I was a music major. Never took a single design course! I probably should.
Self-taught too! Sorta fell into on accident where I took a job as a video editor and it was 95% just AE animation. So I taught myself through trial and error over a few weeks. 100s of YouTube videos later been doing it for a few years now! Thanks to Andrew Kramer, Ben Marriott, TipTut, Jake Bartlett, FriedPixels, Magnet VFX, Motion Design School, Motion Science, School of Motion, Taiga2, and especially James Rockwell (who definitely was a massive help when I was getting started and pointed me in a great direction)!
Start self taught with AE master - ANDREW KRAMER !
I am self-taught, with age of 39 still learning motion design from YouTube and other platforms.
When I studied Audio & Video technologies back in 2007 we had one class dedicated to animation and we worked in old Flash, it was a good basic but I learned nothing special. Everything about Ae I've learned by myself and it was a struggle since I had no one to ask simple questions. I remember the first time I opened Ae and almost gave up since I came there from Pr and everything was different, but with a lot of patience and work, I made it!
I owe Andrew Kramer unlimited drinks of his choosing. I left film school with a screenwriting degree but that doesn't pay the bills when you live in Minnesota. I learned to edit at the end of my schooling and then learned AE during my internship where I binged Video Copilot videos. 13 years later I still do motion design!
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2moI am self-taught. After graduating from German High School, lots of books, YouTube, some courses and most importantly experience and colleagues taught me everything I know. I guess imposter syndrome is sth creative people in general battle with. And I think you need it to a certain degree because it pushes you to get better.