A loop I made with Blender + Hex Composer.

Hey everyone!

I run a small animation studio. While everything we deliver is still custom, we do use AI every day as an internal assistant to get to the boring work faster.

1. Visualizing vague client ideas before we design anything

Instead of spending 2-3 days designing directions that might be totally off, we generate 10-15 quick visual interpretations first. Not for final use. To align on: does "human" mean warm colors + hand-drawn textures, or real people inside a tech world?

2. References for stuff that's hard to find or shoot

This is our most-used one. A clear guidance for the artist:

• weird camera angles you can't easily stage
• hands holding a specific product
• complex machinery/product internals
• complicated character poses
• lighting and perspective refs for complex scenes

Think of it as a super-powered visual research assistant. You still draw/model everything, you just start from a clear target.

3. Expressions, scripts and boring automation

Huge time saver if you're not an expression wizard:

• ask for a starting expression, then debug it together
• clean up and comment old expressions so someone else can read them

4. The AI that's already inside AE + Premiere

Two we use constantly:

• Content-Aware Fill in After Effects: mask the unwanted object/rig/person in the corner, generate fill layer, let AE reconstruct from surrounding frames. Perfect for cleanup shots.
• Scene Edit Detection in Premiere: right-click a flattened render, Premiere finds all the original cuts and makes subclips / markers. No more scrubbing to find 40+ cuts manually.

5. Character performance refs for tricky movement

We don't generate final animation. We generate references for body mechanics when it's impractical to film. For example, wrong proportions, impossible camera angle, stylized character.

What helps most is seeing silhouette, weight shift, and how one pose could transition to the next. Then our animators do the real blocking on top of that.

6. Fixing renders instead of re-rendering

Before you re-render for 6 hours or re-shoot:

• denoise noisy footage/renders
• upscale low-res client assets
• sharpen soft details

Bottom line for us: don't ask "How can AI do my job?". Instead, ask "How can AI remove the boring exploration so I can do my job faster?"

What's the AI use you've actually kept in your workflow?

If you want to see the full breakdown with real examples from our work, you can check out this video: https://youtu.be/naU6nKZ1p4s?si=b_qpffbsMvLOFPdr

anyone help

[HIRING] Remote Video Editors for geo layer map animations

We’re expanding our production team and looking for experienced, high-volume video editors who treat editing as a profession - not a casual hobby.

We care about your speed, technical execution, and story pacing. We do not care about degrees, diplomas, or traditional schooling.

Requirements

• Software: Proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro.
• Hardware: PC / Desktop Workstation editors only (capable of smooth 4K playback and heavy motion graphics rendering without bottlenecking).
• Experience: Proven track record with a strong portfolio showing high retention, clean audio design, and strong visual pacing.
• Reliability: Strict adherence to deadlines, proactive communication, and ability to accept structured feedback.

What You Get

• Continuous, steady stream of client work (no chasing clients on your own).
• Competitive per-video or monthly retainer payouts based on skill and speed.
• Long-term growth opportunities into lead editor / post-production manager roles.
  

How to Apply (DM the following):

1. Full Name & Contact Info  

2.  Link to Portfolio / Drive Folder  

3. Primary Editing Software  

4. PC / System Specifications 

5. Turnaround Time for a 60-second Short-Form Video  and a 10min long form video

6. Desired Rate Per 60 sec short form video and 10min long video

Note : answer all the questions. dont ask questions first . After reviewing your portfolio i will obviously ask questions and gave all the clarity a editor want . Make my hiring process easy so that i can see more applications.

Beginners please stay away . You will not get hired anyways. Please dont waste your time and my time.

After Effects version: 26.3.0 (Build 87)
Operating system: Windows 10

Issue:
After Effects freezes and becomes unresponsive when importing PSD files containing editable text layers alongside shape and photo layers.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a Photoshop document containing text layers, shape layers, and photo layers.
2. Save the document as a PSD.
3. Import the PSD into After Effects.
4. After Effects freezes during the import process.

Expected result: The PSD imports successfully with its layers preserved.

Actual result: After Effects becomes unresponsive during import.

Tests performed:

• Tested in After Effects 2026 and 2025.
• Tested multiple PSD files.
• Tested After Effects in Safe Mode.
• PSD files containing only photo layers import successfully.
• Rasterizing the text layers in Photoshop allows the PSD to import successfully.
• PNG files import without issues.
• Changing the Compressed Frames (Lossless) preference did not resolve the issue.

Conclusion: The issue appears to be related to importing PSD files with editable text layers, but the exact cause is still unknown.

Made with After Effects

Music is Hide Yours Ghosts by Cujo

I'm a VFX artist / motion designer, and I kept hitting the same problem with AI in After Effects: it says "done", but you can't see what it actually changed, and a "harmless" cleanup can quietly shift a layer by 2px.

So I built Surehand. It connects the AI app you already use (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex...) to After Effects, and checks the work:

• Every change is one undo step and comes back with an exact list of what changed, old and new values included.
• Cleanups (un-precompose, bake expressions) run on a copy first and are applied only if the render is pixel-identical.
• Preflight against your own delivery spec: size, fps, duration, title-safe over time, subtitle reading speed, missing fonts and footage. Every finding has a timecode.
• Stress tests for comps with text controls: long German names, Arabic and Hebrew, huge numbers.

A panel in AE sets what the AI may do (everything, confirm each change, or read only), and one button stops it.

Free, MIT, Mac and Windows, AE 2025 and 2026. It doesn't generate images or footage.

Demos (about a minute each, nothing sped up): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXM55bZwkADk

Download: https://conformlabs.co/get

Llevo más de 10 años trabajando como artista de motion graphics y generalista 3D y, desde hace un tiempo, me estoy planteando seriamente cambiar de profesión. Me gustaría saber si a alguien más le está pasando lo mismo y cómo lo está llevando.

Siempre me ha gustado mucho mi trabajo. Cuando empecé con After Effects y el 3D me lo pasaba como un niño. Aprender cosas nuevas era como jugar a un videojuego, me podía pasar horas probando cosas y disfrutaba muchísimo con ello. Además, tenía la suerte de poder trabajar desde casa, ganar un sueldo decente y dedicarme a algo que realmente me gustaba. Para mí era el trabajo ideal.

Pero las cosas han ido cambiando y últimamente estoy bastante quemado.

Cada vez me salen menos proyectos freelance. He intentado mover mi reel y mi portfolio por LinkedIn, mandar emails a responsables de departamentos y contactar con empresas, pero apenas consigo nada. Al final, para poder seguir pagando las facturas, tengo que volver a trabajar en empresas, normalmente en proyectos de unos pocos meses y muchas veces teniendo que ir a la oficina. Cuando termina un proyecto, vuelta a empezar y a preguntarme de dónde va a salir el siguiente trabajo.

Estoy bastante cansado de esa incertidumbre. No tener estabilidad y estar siempre pendiente de conseguir el siguiente proyecto acaba desgastándote.

Luego está todo lo demás: plazos de entrega absurdos, estrés, clientes que te regatean los presupuestos como si estuvieras vendiendo en un mercadillo y otros a los que tienes que perseguir para que te paguen. También me ha pasado tener clientes con los que llevaba tiempo trabajando y que, por intentar poner las cosas fáciles y ser flexible, acabaran aprovechándose de ello. Hasta que llega un momento en el que tienes que plantarte y mandar la relación a paseo.

Y ahora también está el tema de la IA. No sé si a vosotros os pasa, pero a mí me está quitando bastante las ganas. No es que me niegue a aprender cosas nuevas, pero no me despierta el mismo interés. Aprender 3D o After Effects me encantaba; aprender a utilizar herramientas de IA se me hace más una obligación que algo que realmente me apetezca. Y me preocupa tener que estar constantemente adaptándome a herramientas nuevas para no quedarme atrás, cuando cada vez tengo menos motivación para seguir en esto.

Lo que me da rabia es que no siento que haya dejado de gustarme crear cosas. Lo que ya no me gusta tanto es todo lo que rodea al trabajo.

El problema es que, después de más de 10 años, cambiar de profesión tampoco es tan sencillo. Tendría que empezar prácticamente desde cero, con un sueldo bastante más bajo y unas condiciones que ahora mismo no me puedo permitir. No es tan fácil como dejarlo todo y probar otra cosa.

En el fondo, lo que quiero es bastante sencillo: tener un trabajo estable, trabajar desde casa y dejar de vivir con la incertidumbre de no saber qué va a pasar dentro de unos meses. Me gustaría tener clientes recurrentes o encontrar un puesto fijo en remoto, pero no estoy consiguiendo ninguna de las dos cosas.

Por eso quería preguntaros a los que seguís trabajando en el sector:

¿Os habéis sentido así en algún momento? ¿Habéis notado que cada vez cuesta más conseguir proyectos freelance?

A los que trabajáis por vuestra cuenta, ¿cómo conseguís clientes actualmente? ¿Hay alguna forma de conseguir trabajo recurrente que realmente os haya funcionado?

Y a los que habéis decidido cambiar de profesión después de muchos años en esto, ¿cómo os ha ido? ¿Habéis conseguido aprovechar vuestra experiencia en otro sector o habéis tenido que empezar desde cero?

La verdad es que estoy bastante perdido con todo esto y me vendría bien conocer otras experiencias. No sé si estoy pasando por una mala racha, si el sector está cambiando demasiado o si simplemente ha llegado el momento de buscar otra cosa.

¿Cómo lo estáis viviendo vosotros?

I learnt the basic of AE and Premiere Pro by youtube the channel is goated one GFX Mentor but I want to go further and learn about video editing and Motion graphics help me to where should I have start and how find resources a d stuff

I gave AI the same creative challenge in both applications and let it work through the animation process.

Interestingly, After Effects performed better in terms of speed and animation quality. Fusion also produced a usable result, but it took more effort to get there.

I documented the entire experiment, including the results.

Curious what other motion designers think. Have you tried letting AI control either application directly?

My first time making something on after effects more than a few seconds long for University. The names were just random characters and actors I thought of.

I’m not selling it, it took a day to vibe code. You can just do it yourself. and I assume Adobe will be releasing their next version with something far better, but it lets me see the future where Claude code works right in your Adobe apps with you and can take over the tedious tasks. Or build things entirely and then you change them.
I just built a rough chart in AE and then told Claude to grab data on the topic and update the chart accurate to 2022 data. And it just did it. In about a minute, In after effects. Then it rendered the section so it could confirm it was accurate. Isn’t that crazy?
Who else is doing this? Using Claude to control Premiere and After Effects?

A little fluid experimentation in Alloy Studio, bringing simulation, materials, lighting and camera controls together in the browser.

Alloy Studio is a workspace for motion graphics, 3D and VFX, and it’s free to use while in beta.

If you’re a motion graphics artist, I’d love for you to give it a try. Experiment, make something, and tell me what works for you and what needs improving. I’d love to see what you create.

#AlloyStudio #MotionGraphics #FluidSimulation #3DAnimation #VFX

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm looking to connect with someone who creates 3D architectural walkthroughs or motion graphics videos for real estate developers.

The idea is to show how a building or apartment project will look once construction is completed, using realistic 3D renders, exterior/interior visualizations, and cinematic walkthrough videos.

If you work in this space or know someone who does, please comment or DM me. Would love to connect and discuss a potential collaboration! 🤝