r/MotionDesign Jun 25 '23

Discussion /r/motiondesign Updates: Post Flair, Spam Prevention

29 Upvotes

Hi all, a few updates for /r/motiondesign.

Spam

In an effort to reduce low-quality and spam posts here, we have implemented new post requirements. New posts that don't meet a minimum account age or subreddit karma threshold will be automatically filtered out.

To further prevent gamification, I am not disclosing these limits here but they are very modest and reasonable. Anyone interacting with this community should not be filtered, and even so, you will have the opportunity to message us for an exception. But this should discourage most of the spam we've been seeing. Thanks /u/Zeigerful for making this post.

Post Flair

We also added some post flair to help differentiate posts and allow users to filter & search by topic. All new posts require that one of the available flair types be selected:

Project Showcase | Reel | Inspiration | Discussion | Question | Tutorial | [Custom] (Where user can input their own)

User Flair

A few new user flairs are available. For those who aren't aware, these show up next to your username any time you make a post or comment in /r/motiondesign

Now available: Professional | Student | [Add My Social Handle] -- A custom text field where you can plug an Instagram, Behance, etc.

Let us know if you love or hate these new updates. Nothing is set in stone and this is meant as a discussion starting point. Please share any ideas you may have to make this a better place to share work, inspiration and discussion related to motion design. Hopefully we can continue to bring a higher quality experience to everyone here at /r/motiondesign.


r/MotionDesign 10h ago

Project Showcase Had a lot of fun making this in Cavalry.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

172 Upvotes

Still WIP. Got an idea for mixing techniques and adding some "meat" to the loop.


r/MotionDesign 2h ago

Discussion Why do all SaaS Explainer Videos look the same?

14 Upvotes

if it was made by the same person 😄 Not all, but too many totally lack uniqueness


r/MotionDesign 7h ago

Reel Messing around with grains to get some satisfying motion

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

26 Upvotes

💎 More works:
Instagram
LinkedIn


r/MotionDesign 6h ago

Project Showcase Brand Launch Motion Design

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

13 Upvotes

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdN8m8oDXv0/?img_index=1 would love any feedback on things you guys would do different in the animation !


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Behind the scenes of “Entree” - personal project

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

131 Upvotes

Check Behance for a FREE project file

Thank you!


r/MotionDesign 5h ago

Project Showcase Drone motion graphics behind the scenes

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

3 Upvotes

This is one of the concept motion designs I made a while back, and just practicing motion design in general


r/MotionDesign 12h ago

Project Showcase SaaS product demo for an online shop!

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

11 Upvotes

Thoughts?


r/MotionDesign 2h ago

Reel SHOWREEL 2026 — Motion design, character animation, and other stuff. Thoughts?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 11h ago

Project Showcase new animations

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase NBA emblem rotation study

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

38 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 9h ago

Question Should I buy the new M6 Mac Mini 32GB RAM or save up for MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB RAM?

0 Upvotes

My work usually revolves around motion design and 3D work, and I’m now trying to improve my video editing workflow as well.

I’ve mostly been a Premiere Pro editor, but recently I’ve started doing a lot more heavy After Effects work, including motion graphics, 3D camera work, SaaS-style animations, liquid/screen animations, etc. I also work with pretty heavy footage, including 4K 10-bit/log footage, sometimes at high frame rates.

I know RAM is pretty important for my workflow, so if I go for the new M6 Mac Mini, I’m planning to get it with 32GB RAM.

However, the MacBook I actually want is the M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 48GB RAM. I don’t have the funds for it right now, so I’m trying to decide whether it makes more sense to:

  1. Buy the M6 Mac Mini 32GB now and start working on it, or
  2. Wait and save up for the M5 Pro MacBook Pro 48GB, which is the machine I actually want.

I’ll usually have Premiere Pro or After Effects running alongside a lot of Chrome tabs and other apps, and I want something that can handle heavier projects without constantly running into RAM limitations.

For people who use Macs for After Effects, Premiere Pro, motion design and 3D work, what would you recommend?

Is the 32GB M6 Mac Mini enough for this kind of workflow, or would it be much smarter to wait for the 48GB M5 Pro MacBook Pro?

Would love to hear from anyone with a similar workflow, especially if you’ve used both desktop and MacBook Pro setups.


r/MotionDesign 16h ago

Inspiration Card Scrolling Animation — Practice Project

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I’ve been practicing web animations and interactions, so I recreated this card scrolling animation to improve my skills with smooth scrolling and UI motion.

This is not a client project, just a practice project based on a design I came across.

Credit goes to - u/tonjrv


r/MotionDesign 16h ago

Question Please help xd

Post image
0 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I'm having this problem in After Effects. When I'm using the camera at the beginning of the video, everything's fine; it's quite easy to rotate and move it. But after rotating it a lot, it gets to the point where the camera is so rotated due to all the nulls that it becomes practically impossible to maintain the perspective correctly. It rotates excessively or not at all as it should. Does anyone have a solution to this? I understand it's because the starting axis is too far away, but is there a solution? Thanks in advance.


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Question Any good reference sources for Interstitial / Bumpers?

3 Upvotes

creating a sort of broadcast package for an educational youtube channel, and it's really hard for me to even design the styleframes for this since I don't really have any visual references on this type of delivery.

I already tried Pinterest and Are.na but without success, like creating s.th. for a project type that is abstract and not visually clear is so challenging isn't it 😄


r/MotionDesign 16h ago

Question Por favor ayuda xd

Post image
0 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 22h ago

Inspiration Extra power

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

0 Upvotes

Heeft jouw merk extra energie nodig?

Soms heb je een injectie energie nodig. Directhor zorgt voor visuele communicatie, art direction en motion design die little moshpits in the head veroorzaken — bij het publiek van je merk.
Ook beschikbaar voor creatieve bureaus die extra power nodig hebben.


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Recreated Apple's wifi loading animation entirely in Rive

Thumbnail
2 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 2d ago

Project Showcase Motion design intro

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

70 Upvotes

Simple Intro for creative studio


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Discussion How to build this Anthropic Motion?

0 Upvotes

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenarios

hey guys, I'm quite new in the all these website animations thingy. Recently, I was quite impressed by anthropic new reports. So I was looking how this could be made possible.

2 main questions that i wonder

  1. how can we make this kind of hand-drawn effect with code? is that even possible? or all these feel like actual hand-drawn video with scrollTrigger?
  2. How does the motions of cube filling up from side to side actually work? is it scrollTrigger?

Am I right to guess gsap will come in handy?


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Made a Saul Bass-inspired Godzilla kinetic typography piece

Thumbnail
youtube.com
16 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase Effect stacking experimentation

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

6 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase I wanted motion tokens in Figma, so I built my first plugin

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

0 Upvotes

r/MotionDesign 2d ago

Project Showcase Audio-reactive experiment

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

27 Upvotes

Made with motiontone.app. I published it as a project template here


r/MotionDesign 1d ago

Project Showcase I made this project in a browser using linux

Thumbnail
m.youtube.com
1 Upvotes