For someone who is a professional motion designer, there were some really jarring choices made in this video. For starters, overuse of clips from other sources was jarring, and very uncomfortable in many places. Once in a while might be okay as a gag to break up monotony, but punctuating every sentence you say with some random clip really breaks focus and makes your video much harder to follow. You skipped through important stuff that was information dense and required more lingering time for the audience to understand fully to make room for random irrelevant clips. The graphics with details on them had very over the top bloom were also hard to look at for that reason. Please cut down on the cutaway clips, and focus more on clearly giving the details with enough time for them to be absorbed before cutting away. The video subject was interesting, but it was hard to follow and that really put me off. Also you are cutting waaaay too fast between so many different things- it's like trying to watch the items in a washing machine or a blender, please slow it down 😵💫😵💫
@@nathanallen7058 do you really think it's a measure of professionalism if he hasn't posted a videos on youtube in a while? lol Don't you think he still can be a professional and have a portfolio on another website or so?
Holy SHIT!! I have been under charging my clients a lot then?? hahaha, by the way, can you share some tips on how to get great paying clients? as someone who is only 4 years in the animation business, the highest playing client I ever had gave me $2,000 USD and even for that I worked for 20 days....
Kyle, you have the eyes of an eagle (I won't ask how you gained them). The mp3 was temp as she didn't really want it but I thought seeing the animation with music might convince her. It did, until I asked about useage so I could quote for it and she shrugged and said lose the music [sigh]. The jpeg sequence? Well, I've done my best to defend that crime in the video as you know ; )
@@TheVideoShopLondon I actually do have extremely good vision, but only because I cheated and got LASIK. 😉 In seriousness, I love your breakdowns. The look of the "data flow" is really nice here, and the camera moves really help give this piece energy. Great work! (I also think I'm about to make basically this same video for a different client, so I'll happily include this in my inspiration folder!)
@@kylehamrickmotion I'd be honoured to be included in your inspo folder. HONOURED. Btw I used essential graphics for first time in this project and skim watched half a dozen tutorials to try and get my head round them. Guess whose I found the most useful and easy to follow? That's right. Thank you
Holy cow, that tip about rendering out an image sequence... 0_o Massive time saver. Your transitions in this animation are super slick. Really nice work Adam.
I’ve done image sequences for a while now. It’s also handy if you can utilise more than one computer to render (ie in agencies). Thanks for watching and the feedback
@@ashvinsuresh6628 With say, an mp4 After Effects or Media Encoder has to calculate and render the whole file. So with an effects heavy animation that could take say, an hour. If you have an image sequence already rendered then whenever you need to update or amend a section you only need to render that particular section, which is obviously quicker. You render over those frames of the sequence. You still will need to send the client an mp4 but rendering that from a pre-rendered image sequence takes seconds.
I do something like this but I export ans use prores444 instead of png sequences do you think images sequences is better for that ? @@TheVideoShopLondon
Its fine. In my opinion it gives the Video character. Not everything has to be quick digestable content. This shows valuable insights in how he works with his clients and shares his thoughts on the process. It's a great video in my opinion :)
Very difficult to understand anything in this video. You focused more on being funny using unnecessary cuts than on communicate the desired and useful information. The most important information was the one you paid least attention to. Great title and ideas, but the video itself doesn't help.
Yes I have a course: www.thevideoshoplondon.com/Teaching Also if you email me I'm happy to chat about what you're looking to achieve. You may not need to pay for a course you might be able to self-teach
Cool, I can do the animation and all the tech stuff, but I lack the business side of things. Also, I live in a third world country so locally nobody would pay me that amount of money and I haven't had any luck with a foreign client. Once they realize I'm not form USA they lose interest in my services.
I'm not an expert, but there's an obvious financial incentive for companies to outsource work to certain countries where the cost of living is lower. So I don't see that necessarily being a barrier to getting work. This is a bit general obvs, but as long as you're competent and there are no communication issues I don't see why you shouldn't be able get US clients?
@@thevideoshoplongplay At first, they think I'm from USA, my English is good (or decent enough), written and spoken, then they realize I'm not and I get the vibe they felt mislead or something like that. They also assume that just because I'm not from USA I should lower my prices. There was this one time when some guys were OK with the price I gave them first (I'm talking hundreds of dollars, not thousands like in your project), but all of sudden they wanted me to charge peanuts because they found out I'm not from USA? I don't think that's cool and that's usually what happens. A few days ago, I got a message from a guy that wanted me to edit a 30 min. video for 20 bucks, and with an attitude of "take it or leave it, I'm doing you a favor". I mean, c'mon, even in my country that's ridiculous. Anyway, thanks for the reply.
very clean - love it. I sometimes tend to over-complicate animations or ideas. For me, It's hard to walk away from a good idea that would add value - feels I'm leaving something on the table. What do you do when you get deep in the project and then some ideas start forming that would add value? No matter how much time I have with the brief, doing moodboards or animatics - I always end up at a crossroads with something special that I hadn't thought of before.
I’m similar. I often find my better ideas come once I’ve been in the weeds in a project and even after the client has thrown a curveball or two. Obviously that’s not going to work for every project or client. Some will want you to lay out very clearly at start exactly what they’ll get. But if you have a client who trusts you and doesn’t mind a more fluid / responsive approach? Why not
Omg, I found my favorite motion design channel. Picked up a few neat workflow tips. My designs feel a bit empty and bland. How do you go about adding details to your designs? Like how do you add interesting elements that increase the production value other than the main element Thanks!
I wish I still had access to it, but I worked at a startup that paid $1.5M for a graphics package (and brand identity, which I'm sure is where most of the cost came from). Makes me think I'm on the wrong side of the industry lol. Great video.
@@BrendanFromBC crazy! Ya I'm still around, I don't make "web" stuff as much anymore. I'm working for the brand department at red bull. it's great and not nearly as stressful as a lot of RU-vid and freelance that I did over the last 15 years lol
@@MattEatsMochi Wow, that’s awesome to hear! 2023 was my first year leaving full-time and officially diving into freelance work and it’s been a ride for sure haha. Glad to hear you’re still loving the work and feeling more comfortable with things. If you don’t mind me asking, what do you find most rewarding about the career path you’ve landed in? Do you have an image of what milestones ahead look like to you, and why you want to reach them?
Well I suspect budgets generally will start to plummet but that's a subject for another (depressing) video. I've often wondered (and been told) I'm in the wrong industry
Thank you. And wow! Great eyes sir. I actually noticed that after I sent it to the client (believe me? Nah, I wouldn't either) and swore to myself. But you're the first person to spot it here. I'm equally chastened and impressed 😂
I'm a competitive bitch too! Man first video I've seen from you and loved the vibe and your work is great quality. Good flow and over just happy I found this. Subbed and excited to check out more of your content.
What a great video. Workflow can be difficult to establish sometimes, especially if you're constantly doing work for new clients. This is super helpful.
I am an intern motion designer can you make a guide to land $1000 plus clients and what goes into convincing someone to spend this much amount on a single project
So glad you asked this! I LOVE this moment. It's from Brazil, and Terry Gilliam talks specifically about this moment in the fourth paragraph of this article: www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/dec/11/robert-de-niro-terry-gilliam-jonathan-pryce-brazil-plumber-python
You can tell the difference between professionals with a long history and wealth of experience working with clients, and running their own business VS a straight up RU-vidr who can use a tool but knows nothing of the values you speak of in this video. Love your style of video, humor, process sharing etc... rings soo true.
Nice! Also your "clickbait" worked, I clicked haha. Great title, and no it's not clickbait because you totally explained and gave us exactly what the title says. Also, you're not overexplaining or being boring, I find everything you're talking about pretty interesting, especially for a newbie like me to motion design.
Okay, so most of this project looked pretty straight forward to me, but I had to know how you did the treatment of that data transfer particle-like dots animation in scene 2. Sharing your project file like this, truly amazing generosity! I was able to dissect this setup and set that you could change the offset path line join method and get cubes as well. Was that all done manually or with a script / plugin? Thanks again for sharing!!!
It's fascinating getting to see other artists' creative workflows, thank you for this gem! I also wanted to ask, are you using a plugin here to import those movie shots you're using for comedic effect? I remember coming across it once but forgot what it's called. 😅
Thanks. I'm the same. Always interesting seeing how other people work. I don't use any plugins for the b-roll I buy a lot of blu-rays and I'll sometimes make a note of clips I think would work well
What's your PC specs. I have a M1 Mac Air and U can't even open the project file. Can I work on projects and get clients with a potato specs until I can afford a goo done? Thanks
What a non-sense. m1 mac is perfect for AE and that kind of work. Optimizing and not being able to open the project is 2 different things. Have you worked on something yourself with your "potato" spec machine, yet?
Hello all. I'm currently in the freelance business and live in Greece. I have plenty of clients and a part time job as a head of creative. Seeing this lovely work made me realise that my rates are too low. 50€ for some small reels and 200-250€ for bigger ones. My animations and 3D experience match the ones shown above at about 60% with more lessons to be taught in 3D cameras and tweaks. Maybe I am hard at myself but I don't think I qualify for such high rates and I am a bit afraid. What I know is that I have many hours of experience even though Im young and I should increase my rates especially when the involve a holistic experience (from illustrations to branding to motion design). What are your suggestions and how would you increase your rates?
I've literally just been talking to a friend of mine about this because of comments like yours. My plan is to do a video addressing this specifically, but I want to get someone else involved as I don't think I'm the best person to give advice on this. Watch this space
I work on similar projects over here in the US. $8k seems bang on if not a little under rate compared to what myself and a lot of peers are charging clients.
That doesn't surprise me. What you get paid has very little do with actual ability, more about confidence / self-worth / confidence / what environment you're working in etc etc
Great content and even better animations. I really like the look of first black and white lines and their glow !!! (Ofc everything else is also awesome)
_That transition at __8:10__ is one of the coolest and most seamless I have ever seen as far as originality and authentic creativity are concerned! It blows my mind that this video doesn't have more likes given the views. You better believe it: I'm subscribed to this channel_
Well that transition could have been nice. It was just a work in progress and it wasn't "clicking" so split it into two shots. But thank you, and welcome to the community! You don't have to like nerdy film clips but it helps ....
ngl I was kind of envious of the rates you're able to charge for the type of work that you do but having had finished watching the vid - I think your level of skill and professionalism pretty much make the price tag justified. Hope I get as good as this myself some day! Thank you for all the valuable insights
You can get there quickly. I've been in this industry for ~7 years and there's never been more work available than now. Every single business now needs a digital footprint and motion designers & video editors are the backbone of a huge piece of that footprint.
Rates is something I want to talk about more in a future video. I don't want anyone to think clients are constantly paying me these kind of rates while I outsource work sipping martinis on my superyacht. I'm not an expert on getting high paying clients, I just thought this could be a valuable as a case study. The only thing that's really unique here is that the client is very sanguine about financial transparency. A lot of similar videos I've seen have very generic advice
@@dvoob That may be true (it's been a while since I've had to "hustle" but I definitely need to this year) but do you think any of us can be complacent? And yes, I'm alluding to AI. I genuinely have no idea what our industry will look like in a couple of years
freelance is crazy sometime i get to make realistic painting for just 5 dollar and sometimes 50 dollar for simple cartoon and personally i create advance animation for free :)
After. But I know her. Full payment up front? Pretty much unheard of. Some clients might go for partial payment AFTER a certain stage or period of time if agreed in advance. I might suggest this for a new client. Regular clients I’m generally happy for payment on back end
@@TheVideoShopLondon It would be great if you could do a video about this and more of the business processes in the background. I think these parts are some of the hardest things freelancers deal with and therefore can easily ruin their business. I've unfortunately learnt the hard way (eventually) after a number of jobs I've done in the past.
