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Hitting the High Note: Keeping Clients Coming Back for More

You’ve arrived: The rays have all been traced, and every last pixel has been pushed. Please have yourself a deep and well-earned breath. 😌

Because it still ain’t over muthafxers...

The Two (and a half) Phases of Motion Design Production

This is what we all know and love.

The magnificent magic of motion in the making. It’s finally time to start bashing those buttons, cranking out keyframes and revving up our render engine. 🚂

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

Mograph Storytelling: Why Pre-production Matters

Alright, so both you and your client are totally psyched about this concept, right?
Good. Now let’s take that concept and grow it into a beautiful story. 🌱

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

You *are* Creative, but do you *do* Creative?

This is the good stuff, isn’t it? Creative, with a capital ‘C’. This’ll make or break your project. No joke. 🍰

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

No more Misses: Motion Project Management 101

Many Creative Minds shudder when they hear the words ‘Project’ and ‘Management’ together. But good luck keeping that Creative Mind functioning without it, lol. 😆

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

The Gospel of Gantt: Motion Design Project Plans

Hey kid, you wanna see a skeleton? 🩻

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

Nailing your estimates: How Pros Price Motion Projects

The first step of managing a motion project is to guarantee that you get paid for it. 💰
And, yup, this happens even before the project even begins, here’s how, in three steps.

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

Ghosted by clients no more: How to respond to briefs

Response to brief, return brief, reverse brief. Whatever you call it, it’s a damn near criminally neglected part of the process, and also where a lot of people lose clients. 👻

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

Doomed from the start: What makes a Good Brief?

Briefs, briefs, briefs. You may not know it, but your briefs are absolutely bursting with possibilities.

Cheek(s) aside 🍑, the brief is one of the most crucial parts of any project...

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

The 20 steps of (just about) every Motion Project

Every project is different right? Every piece is unique? Right? Right?

When they're done, sure. But it turns out that – behind the scenes – pictures get moved mostly the same way.

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

Why Motion Design projects Fail: The 3 Pillars

They call 'em the Three Pillars of Good Motion and Happy Clients (well, I call them that), and they are the foundation of your process. Only with all three pillars strong can you make seriously good motion and clients seriously happy. They are Creative 💡, Management 🗓, and Production 🚂.

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

Iterative Approximation: The Principle Behind Every Great Project

*The Great Pyramids* 🤝 *Checkout Button on buyplasticshoecoversdirectdotcom*

Both use a golden principle that will make sure your Motion Design project runs smoothly. It's not just a workflow; it's the essence of mastering any creative endeavour.

The full mini-course available now: https://processofmotion.com/p/free

Process of Motion – LITE

Most of you probs know that I run the course Process of Motion that teaches the Business, Creative, and Management skills of Motion Design. It's priced at the low end of a typical day rate to put it within reach of as many Motion peeps as possible.

But "within reach" depends on many things. Where you live, your stage in life, if your house just fell off a cliff or your dog ate your wallet, etc, etc.<...

🚨 PSA: The tiers they are a-changin'!

Heyo! 👋

I'll have a big ol' batch of videos ready pretty soon. In the meantime I just wanted to let you know I'll be switching up the tiers. In a few weeks:

• All tiers will include early access.

but

• Source files will only be available for True 🤝 & Titan 🙌 tiers.

So if you're on the Tuto Peep 👏 -tier now, make sure to download any files you might like to play with before then.

St...

Volcanic Smoke & Ash | C4D & TFD Tutorial

Things are gonna get dusty up in this, so strap in for some super sweet pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Standard Renderer, Redshift or Arnold? ¿Porque no los tres? 🤔

00:00 - Intro

00:11 - Where to get a volcano for C4D

00:19 - Particle Emitter 1: Direction

01:38 - Particle Emitter 2: Wide

02:20 - Particle Emitter 3: Slow

02:59 - Adding forces: Gravity & Friction

03:30 - Setting up a TFD Container

04:04 - How does voxel siz...

Cinema 4D Tutorial | Northern Lights

Pure Cinema 4D is all you need; All native, all standard renderer. So get your solar flares ready because we’re going magnetospheric with this one, baby!

00:00 Intro & Overview

00:20 Setting up the magnetosphere

01:01 Methods for Making an Aurora Texture

01:21 Making Aurora Texture with a Layer Shader and Noise Shader

01:33 Noise 1: Ribbons with Cranal Noise

01:55 Noise 2: Mask with Gaseous Noise

02:13 Difference between Alpha & T...

AE TUTORIAL | Aurora in After Effects

🌌 Aurora is best plasma. And you can make it in After Effects in less time than it takes an X-class CME to reach earth and wipe out civilisation. Easy breezy! 👍

00:00 Cosmology 101

00:22 Using Fractal Noise to make an Aurora Texture

00:30 Noise 1: Ribbons

01:09 Noise 2: Mask

02:07 Noise 3: Pillars

02:39 Animating Automatically with the Time* expression in After Effects 

03:39 Using CC Radial Blur to make it look like Aurora

Lava Bombs! [Cinema 4D + X-Particles + Redshift / Arnold TUTORIAL]

Standard Renderer, Redshift, Arnold, we've got 'em. Source files and all.

00:00 - Intro

00:15 - How to make a volcano

00:27 - Setting up main xpEmitter

02:19 - X-Particles colour over life

03:43 - Setting up X-Particles Modifiers

03:59 - xpTurbulence

05:11 - xpGravity

05:41 - xpDrag

06:03 - xpKill

06:45 - Setting up X-Particles collisions

07:31 - Setting up X-Particles to Spawn on Collision

10:26 - Making Spawned X-Parti...

Fire in the booth...

Seamless any Texture in 2 mins - AE Tutorial – Source Files

I cannot emphasise enough just how much this technique works with nearly any image editing software. You can even do it with paper, scissors and glue. ✂️

The poll is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/aight-whats-next-70589427

Belt of Venus for Landscapes - Cinema 4D & Arnold Tutorial – Source Files

Make your landscape renders more haute with this couture. 👜

(You can do this with almost any renderer, not just Arnold.)

Realistic Clouds - Cinema 4D & Turbulence FD Tutorial – Source files

Realistic Landscapes - Cinema 4D & Arnold Tutorial – Source files

Main files here (792MB).

Landscape textures here (161MB).

Landscape Up-Res Textures - Cinema 4D & After Effects Tutorial – Source files

Fix Repeating Landscape Textures - Tutorial – Source files

Volcano 🌋 - Houdini Tutorial – Source files

Source files here (257MB).

Black Hole PT2 - Cinema 4D & Turbulence FD Tutorial

Accretion Disc

Black Hole PT1 - Cinema 4D & Arnold Tutorial

Gravitational Lensing & Event Horizon

Smooth Dynamic Camera Rigs - Cinema 4D Tutorial

Cloud Rendering 101 - Cinema 4D Tutorial

No source files available... 🫥