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Episode 29: Balancing Family and MoGraph with David Stanfield
School of Motion Podcast - November 15, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsImagine doing work for Google, Coca-Cola, and Facebook. That’d be pretty sweet, right? But what if you were tasked with raising 4 kids at the same time. Do you think you could do it? David Stanfield is a director, animator, and designer in Charleston, South Carolina. For years he’s been design...
Episode 28: Casey Hupke on Projection Mapped Concerts
School of Motion Podcast - November 01, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsWhen you’re working on a Motion Graphic project usually the final video will be viewed on a phone or computer, or if you’re really lucky a theater screen. But what if you could have your work projected at a concert with thousands of people in the audience? That’d be pretty sweet, right? Our gu...
Episode 27: The Reality of Owning a Studio, with Zac Dixon
School of Motion Podcast - October 18, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsIn the Motion Design industry the role of creative director and studio owner is glorified. The thrill of owning your own business and leading a team of artists is intoxicating, but what is the actual reality of running a Motion Graphics studio? In this week's episode Joey sits down with Zac Di...
Episode 26: The State of the Motion Design Industry 2017
School of Motion Podcast - October 04, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsWhat's the real state of the Motion Design Industry? At this point you’ve probably already seen the results our 2017 Motion Design Industry Survey. If not, go check it out... In the survey we asked Motion Designers from around the industry about their experience. There was actually quite a b...
Episode 25: MoGraph Automation with Fraser Davidson of Cub Studio
School of Motion Podcast - September 20, 2017 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsIt seems like just about everyone’s job is threatened by automation, but what if automation is the secret to getting more MoGraph work out into the world? What if you could edit an entire After Effects composition from a spreadsheet? Then even if you’re an accountant you could get amazing MoGr...
Episode 24: Mixing MoGraph with Psychedelics, Caspian Kai
School of Motion Podcast - September 06, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsCan drugs make you a better artists? We'e been programed our entire lives to believe that only harm can come from drugs. The thought is, if it causes you to have a chemical reaction in your brain it must be bad for you, but maybe that's not always the case... On this podcast we're talking wi...
Episode 23: How To Do It All - Andrew Vucko
School of Motion Podcast - August 22, 2017 19:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsHave you ever had a director say 'I shouldn't have hired you...'? Our guest today is proof that hard work can get you anywhere. Andrew Vucko (pronounced Voo-co) is killing it in the Motion Design world. He's had big-name clients like Facebook, Toyota and Patreon. His work is consistently featur...
Episode 22: Beyond the Dragon Tattoo - Directing for MoGraph, Onur Senturk
School of Motion Podcast - August 09, 2017 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsMotion Graphics covers a huge range of skills... Like design, animation, editing, directing, 3D, and much more. There’s a lot of work that goes into one piece, and often there’s a huge team behind some of the best work out there. But occasionally you’ll find a Unicorn in this industry, someone...
Episode 21: How to be a (GreyScale) Gorilla - Nick Campbell
School of Motion Podcast - July 26, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsHave you ever wanted to work with no pants on… No commuting, no clients, just you and your creativity cranking out cool stuff and then making tutorials. Sounds like the dream, right? It totally is, and School of Motion is not the only place where that dream is a reality. There are quite a few ...
Episode 20: Lighting and Camera tips from a master DP: Mike Pecci
School of Motion Podcast - July 12, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsDP's are like real-world 3D artists. Think about it. They have to take a three-dimensional world and use cameras and lights and objects and people to produce an image that is two-dimensional. It's a difficult task, and anyone who's ever opened up Cinema 4D understands the challenge in using 3D t...
Episode 19: Design Tips from Designers
School of Motion Podcast - June 28, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsDesign sure is hard, ain't it? That's one of the reasons we built Design Bootcamp. In that course we dig into the principles of design but, more importantly, how to apply those principles in the real world. Knowing color theory is great, but when you're looking at a blank screen in Photoshop i...
Episode 18: How much do After Effects Script Developers make? A chat
School of Motion Podcast - June 14, 2017 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsWe’ve all been there… You’re working on a project in After Effects and BAM, brick wall. After Effects just doesn’t have the feature that you need. It’s times like this that we all turn to places like aescripts + aeplugins, and to the real MoGraph heros, the plugin and script developers. Th...
Episode 17: Fire Without Smoke | Compositing Pro-Tips with Hugo Guerra
School of Motion Podcast - May 31, 2017 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsNuke is the better tool... ...for compositing. After Effects is king in many areas (like animation) that are important to us Motion Designers, but Nuke is a far more powerful tool for compositing things like VFX and 3D passes. Now, as a Motion Designer you might think that knowing compositing ...
Episode 16: Going unscripted, a look into the world of producing Reality Television with Joke Productions.
School of Motion Podcast - May 17, 2017 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsThere is a TON of MoGraph work out there. If you’re only checking it out at places like Motionographer (who we love very dearly), you’re only seeing the tip of a massive MoGraph iceberg. Our goal here at School of Motion is to expose you to as many sides of the industry as possible, not just t...
Episode 15: Do Creative Directors Actually Create Anything? An interview with Ryan Summers.
School of Motion Podcast - May 03, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsWhen it comes to location L.A. is undoubtedly the best place for a motion designer to network and thrive, but that’s not to say that studios in other parts of the country are doing less-cool work. One great example is the team at Digital Kitchen. For years Digital Kitchen has been churning o...
Episode 14: The NAB Survival Guide for Motion Designers
School of Motion Podcast - April 19, 2017 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsAs a motion designer NAB isn't just a conference, it's really a rite of passage. With over 100,000 attendees there is no bigger platform to network with people from around the industry. It's an insanely huge event, and if you've never been to it you're going to want to listen to this Podcast. ...
Episode 13: Why do we need editors? A chat with Mike Radtke, Editor Extraordinaire from Digital Kitchen.
School of Motion Podcast - April 05, 2017 10:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsThink back to the last time you cut a reel... It probably went something like this. You sat in front of the computer, picked out that perfect track of music, found all of your projects, brought them into After Effects, and then you had to make a TON of decisions.... What shot do I chose? Whe...
Episode 12: Be A Better Freelancer Right Now - How to get clients, keep them happy, and get paid to do what you love.
School of Motion Podcast - March 22, 2017 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsOur Podcast has always been interviews, but in this episode we're going to shake things up. This time Joey will be flying solo, giving you his most tactical, actionable Freelance tips that you can start using right now. Some of these tips are from our course, Freelance U, and others are from our...
Episode 11: The Uncertain Future of MoGraph with Chris Do
School of Motion Podcast - March 08, 2017 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsIf you don't already know who Chris Do is, you need to. He is the CEO of Blind, a studio which he founded 21 years ago that's still going strong today. He's also the creator of The Futur where he teaches MoGraphers like you how to be a creative entrepreneur. He has a TON of experience in the cre...
Episode 10: After Effects to Code, a chat with the developers of Lottie from Airbnb
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsImagine a world without After Effects. Every time you sit down in front of the computer to animate you have to write code. Not just a few lines like you do with most expressions; hundreds of lines with variables, if-then statements, pixel dimensions, and crazy math formulas for your eases. This ...
Episode 9: The Conductor, Producer Erica Hilbert of The Mill
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsProducers do more than budgets. They are the conductors of the MoGraph orchestra... they do the dirty work so the artists can give total focus to their craft. They have to master the art of telling clients "no" without saying "no," they have to read the tea-leaves when it comes to budgeting and ...
Episode 8: Justin Cone talks Motionographer and the Motion Awards
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsMotionographer does a lot for our industry... They inspire us, interview industry professionals, educate us, and put on the amazing F5 Conference. In this interview Joey talks to Motionographer Co-Founder Justin Cone about their Patreon campaign and the latest project Motionographer is heading ...
Episode 7: Cinema 4D, The Hassenfratz Effect
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsCinema 4D is one of those apps that you start learning and never stop. Frankly, most of the apps we Motion Designers use fall into that category. EJ Hassenfratz has built up a reputation as an amazing C4D artist and teacher. His tutorials have been featured on GreyScaleGorilla, he has presented ...
Episode 6: Nobody is Born a Designer, A chat with Lilian Darmono
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsLilian Darmono is an Australian / Indonesian-Chinese artist living in London. To say she has a diverse background is an understatement. She is not only multi-cultured and well traveled, her illustration style is a constant exploration of new styles. Yes, she tends to be on the cute side of thing...
Episode 5: Sound Design for Fun and Profit
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsWant to know what it takes to be a pro at sound design? To say that Frank Serafine might know what he's talking about is probably a huge understatement. Frank has been around doing sound design since before many of you were born. He's seen technology change they way that things are done, not ju...
Episode 4: The Code Never Bothered Me Anyway
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsEver hear of Houdini? No, not the magician, the software by SideFX. Joey got a chance to have a very nerdy talk with the super genius Christopher Hendryx about his work at Disney as an FX Animator. Christopher was the lead artist in charge of Elsa's ice magic on a little film you may have hea...
Episode 3: Matt Frodsham gets weird
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 20:22 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsMatt Frodsham is a Cinema 4D Black Belt. His reel is full of weird and wonderful work, much of it completed with his friends at the incredible Berlin-based Zeitguised. His work is abstract, provocative, playful, and extremely polished. Check out his reel to see what strange places his mind has...
Episode 2: Twisted Poly talks shop
School of Motion Podcast - March 03, 2017 18:55 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsWant to know the secret to amazing work? Us too. Unfortunately, the secret is "work really really hard." Working out of his home office in the capital of Slovenia, Nejc Polovsak is consistently turning out some of the most creative, polished, and beautiful 3D work in the Motion Graphics world....
Episode 1: The Almighty Rich Nosworthy gets geeky about 99 Frames
School of Motion Podcast - March 01, 2017 19:28 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 311 ratingsNew Zealand-based 3D Artist extraordinaire Rich Nosworthy is about as humble a guy as you'll ever meet. He single-handedly makes some of the coolest photorealistic 3D animations you've ever seen, and still finds time to be pestered with all kinds of questions from people who want to discover his...
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