👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New I partnered with the lovely team at Astute Graphics to create a 5 video series covering how I illustrated a set of plant graphics. To be totally transparent, I had never used Astute Graphics illustrator plugins before they reached out, but I found that their tools solved a lot of frustrations I have with...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New How to animate a timeline in After Effects This was a project that didn’t fit into my course, After Effects, Explained, but it’s still a handy thing to be able to animate! Here are the project files to follow along, or steal my animated version and swap in your own images for the placeholders. 🤫 Sneak...
3 months ago • 2 min read
👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New Work Faster in After Effects - The Shortcuts I Use Every Day Here's a cheat sheet of Ae Keyboard Shortcuts that goes with the video. After Effects Fundamentals Guide I just finished a 16-page, printable guide to go with my popular After Effects Fundamentals Series. This guide contains all the notes you’ll...
4 months ago • 1 min read
👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New If you want to learn how to animate in After Effects, there’s a whole side of the program for visual effects work that you don’t need to know. This can make After Effects feel more overwhelming than it needs to. So in my latest video, I break down all the skills you need to know to be a successful motion...
5 months ago • 2 min read
👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New I published 4 new YouTube videos last month! Is Learning Animation Still Worth It in the AI Era? 5 Steps to Create Any Animation in After Effects After Effects for Beginners: Create Your First Animation in 5 Easy Steps The #1 Mistake Beginner Motion Designers Make 🤫 Sneak Peak My new beginner course,...
7 months ago • 1 min read
👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New Teaching yourself motion design is absolutely possible — I did it. But looking back, I can see that I made some mistakes along the way and I certainly didn’t take the most efficient route to becoming a motion designer. In this new YouTube video, I talk about 6 things I wish I knew when I was first...
8 months ago • 1 min read
👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New I’ve been so busy working on a new beginner After Effects course, that I’m late on this newsletter (sorry!). I’m also trying to get back on track with consistent YouTube videos…here’s the first one: Which Animation Software Should You Learn in 2026 You probably already know I’m a bit biased towards After...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday season and are rested and ready to kick off 2026! Here's the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation! 🥳 New I was recently working on an After Effects project with a lot of layers and I wanted to quickly select just the soloed layers. Why is there not an easy way to do that?! So, I asked Claude to write a script and then...
10 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader, Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving, if you celebrate. I know I'm grateful for everyone who's taken my classes over the last 6+ years. Thank you for being here. I’ve never done this before and I don’t know if I’ll do it again, but... I’m having a Black Friday sale! All of my classes are 25% off, now until December 2nd. 🎉 Even more exciting, is that as part of the sale, you can now purchase the Complete Animation Explained Bundle–all 19 of my classes–for just $299, a whopping 68%...
11 months ago • 1 min read