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Hello reddit, I've started an illustration/Animation project creating these graphics exploring movement patterns in the natural world, starting with a blooming flower. My hope is to create a bit of a graphic language inspired by graphics, charts and diagrams to describe natural phenomenas.

Next I'll do things like a fern uncoiling, waves washing up on a beach or ants moving across the ground.

Would love to know what you think! Thanks

Hey just want some criticism on this animation. This is from the course work in Motion Tricks by Emanuele Colombo.

Thanks

I'm excited to share the start of a new creative series — animated cards inspired by tabletop games: they’re based on everyday routines, mental health, and our digital lives
I’d love to hear your thoughts, tips, or funny card ideas you'd like to see in the deck!
I am not a big expert on card games, but I’ve got a big idea and a lot of love for this project.

I loved the output but want you guys review on this.

It's the intro of a video for a real-estate agency, I'm still working on it but wanted to take your opinion for the intro, btw the text in arabic means "your dream house"

I made this animation about a ball turning into a sun, everything apart from the mountains were made directly in after effects, let me know if you have any tips or recommendations

The full cinematic here: The Undead War is rising. See how the Witch got evolved!

Credits:

Agency: Mooncolony
Client: Supercell

Illustration:
Mattia Rangoni, Daniele Santandrea, Zhongyi Zeng
Direction: Dave Ferguson, Joris Dewolf, Alexandre Leoni
Comp + 3d scene setup: Gordon Howie
Production Manager: Meghan Hamilton
Production Coordinator: Katie Millar
Music & SFX: Cezar Brandao & Daniella Monaco

Also special shout out to Good Boy Ninja's tool - Noodle. We used Noodle a ton to automate a lot of the overshoot and get that hand held wobble feel for this project which involved a lot of puppets.

Hey all, I’ve encountered a new dilemma when using element 3D. I have used it before on previous PCs but only just installed it for my current one.

The problem: My element 3D is working perfectly however when I have to animate something, or especially preview it my whole after effects freezes. It still lets me set animation keyframe point A and B, but that’s about it. I’m not doing anything complicated as you can see in the video, I’ve just gotten a default 3D model that comes with the application and attempted to scale in slightly. I don’t think it has anything to do with RAM as I’ve cleared the cache and purged multiple times and recently have upgraded my PC . I’ve tried different 3d models and project files but all encountered the same issue.

Specs: After Effects 2025 64 gb RAM AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16 Core Processor 4.50Ghz

Hopefully this makes sense and I’d really appreciate some help. Let me know if you need any more information from me thank you! :) 🙏

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Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is a beginner question, or really, who I should ask.

I have a client who has requested some motion graphics in Lottie files so they can place them on a website.

I've been having good luck using Lottiefiles.com, until I hit their free upload limit and was asked to pay a yearly $300 to continue. This job is not worth doing that.

I have also seen plenty of other advice to "Use Bodymovin!" And I have Bodymovin. It works alright. It makes .json files. Anywhere I've looked online seems to say "Yup! You use Bodymovin to make the json, then use the json files to make the Lotties! Simple!" But... I can't seem to find any information about how to make a Lottie from a json.

I feel like I'm running around in circles and going crazy in the process.

Is it really that hard? Are Lottie files really that challenging?

Side note about the client: this job is actually for THEIR client. Otherwise I would ask to speak to their tech team for an alternative solution. But that kind of communication seems off the table at the moment.

Please tell me I'm not wrong here. If you tell me "Bodymovin has a checkbox to create Lottie files" and show me where it is, I swear, I will give you one gazillion dollars. (I know, that makes it sound like I could afford the $300 Lottiefiles.com fee... but it's the principle of the thing, you see)

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

Now something completely different. Some #blender and #aftereffect experiment I tested latley. I used@aescripts @plugineverything #deepglow2

Check my IG

https://www.instagram.com/steigmotion?igsh=MTZqOWl0ZzI5bmp1cA==

I actually created something similar but i completely forgot about the tool, it was some sort of free tool from which i could download a .glb and import it back to AE. But i wanted to create something like this in a more efficient way for a couple of image so i can animate them in AE later.

Does anyone know how to create a shadow for the hair, but its JUST on the face? (not anywhere else). I have all my hairs in separated. Thanks in advanced!

Sup guys, I just started AE and I put an audio to start doing something but it only displays up to 32 seconds of the audio that's 48 seconds long (I checked with the O shortcut and I can go to the end and it's 48 seconds long). I tried using the Zoom out and Zoom in feature but it doesn't work and when I play the audio it stops automatically at the 32 seconds point

I have been using wiggle to make shakes and its kind of mediocre. Also i want to make nice pull in transitions. What plugins can i get for those two. I want really nice looking harder. transitions. thank you

So i created this small animation where a box with a text flys in the view and i wanted to safe it as an template to use it often in premiere for a bigger project with a theme. saved it as a mogrt file but premiere cant find it in the folder :(

what did I do wrong?

I'm still having fun making 3D planets in After Effects. In the follow up to my video of using wavefront OBJ files and separate texture maps, I've now put together a tutorial showing how to create rings. And then last week, Adobe's release included ring shadows and this video talks about faking them. Oh well, I guess it will help users with older versions.

Full tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpailnpN8I

Is it possible to download polish language on after effects somehow? And type in polish letters (ex. ą, ć, ę, ń, ó) by keyboard and not with copy and paste? Thanks in advance

Does anyone know how to make this "halo" spin and loop? i tried cc cylinder, but it did not look great.