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Your thoughts for a chance to win a free year of Skillshare | December Update

Published 9 months ago • 2 min read

December 2024

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

Roundup of Deals for Motion Designers

Skillshare

Skillshare is having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale! Give yourself, or someone you love, the gift of learning!

Get 50% off a year of Skillshare with this link and code BFCMT2024.

With a Skillshare membership, you’ll have access to all 17 of my classes, plus new ones I create in 2025, and thousands more from other teachers!

You could follow my complete curriculum for learning motion design to seriously improve your skills in 2025!

Sale ends 12/2/24.

Overlord

One of my couldn’t live animate without tools, Overlord, is 30% off until December 7th.

I cover how I use Overlord briefly in this tutorial and in more depth in this class*.

Limber

Everything at AeScripts is 25% off until December 6th.

If you’ve been wanting to learn character animation, you could snag my favorite character rigging tool, Limber, and watch these classes*:

​Limber Character Rigging to Secondary Animation​

​Character Rigging & Animation FUNdamentals​

Sneak Peak

The sneak peak is on you this time! Help me plan classes and tutorials for the new year by filling out my end-of-the-year survey.

One lucky respondent will win a year of Skillshare membership.

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Deadline to fill out the survey is 12/31/24.

Quick Tip

If you have a bunch of layers that start at different points on the timeline, and you want to organize them by when they start, there’s a free script for that! It comes with After Effects so you should already have it installed.

Go to File > Scripts and choose Sort Layers by In Point.

Random Recommendation

I listen to a lot of podcasts when pushing pixels (aka design work that doesn’t involve too much deep thinking). One that consistently has insightful and interesting episodes is the Next Big Idea. They interview authors of new, bestselling non-fiction books so I find a lot of good reads from this podcast. One episode I recently enjoyed was about Yuval Noah Harari’s book, Nexus. If you like conversations about how the future could look, you’ll like this episode. I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve recommended Harari’s other book, Sapiens, in the past.

Happy Animating!

Megan

*These tools have been updated since I created these resources, but the idea and general workflow remains the same.

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