Hey guys, Quick heads-up about office hours replays. Skool only keeps recordings live for a short window on my current plan. So the replays here won't stick around forever. Here's what I'm doing instead. I'm downloading every office hours and uploading them to the Animator NOW! YouTube channel. You'll have access to all of them, forever, in a clean playlist you can scroll through whenever you want. Give me a few days to name them properly, upload the back catalog, and build the playlist. I'll drop the link here once it's ready. In the meantime, here's the replay from April 23: Watch it. Take notes. Drop your questions below if anything sparked something for you. See you Thursday at 5pm Paris for the next one.😊

Hey everyone I might be a little late to the meet up!!!

Hey guys, So I've been thinking quite a bit about this yesterday. And got a little scared, a little anxious. Because I was thinking: "How can I go from zero, not knowing anything about a software like After Effects, to being confident selling this to clients ? There are people who know this tool like the back of their hand, how can I compete with this ?" There was a big imposter syndrome growing, and I have not even started yet. Having to learn a tool from basically zero, to make things that I'm not really used to, and hoping to sell work from that is SCARY. But then, I tried to think about it from another angle. Is there any tool, any software that I know, that I am familiar with, that I can use to create motion design ? The answer is yes. The answer is Blender. I've been using Blender professionally for 3D animation for around 5 years now. I won't say that I know everything about it, quite far from it actually. BUT I had opportunities to use a bit of everything for various projects and tests during my last job. Even did some light motion design like work with it. So I looked at what can be done with Blender regarding motion design, motion graphics, 2D cutout animation. And found a few promising and reassuring results: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QaW7oI5rTw Blender VS After Effects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCBpdNeOnk Motion Graphics in Blender from the good reliable Ducky3D, who's videos already helped me a lot in the past for work. And he is teaching geometry nodes, which is a VERY powerful tool inside Blender that I was always interested in, and used a little in my last job as well. - https://youtu.be/AONniAlLjLg A few examples of some simple effects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ke0qX4dB1M This is what convinced me. Kurzgesagt style animation in Blender. I love Kurzgesagt, both their content and 2D animation style, and seeing that it's this easy to do something similar in Blender, all with tools I know, makes me more confident that I can pull this off.