Awesome Motion Design — Curated list of Motion Design and Animation links

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Untime’s official blog

5 min readDec 20, 2018

At Untime Studio we have a huge experience in Motion design and Animation. And we haven’t ever seen any lists of useful links and materials all together in one place. So we decided to bring it all together.
Our goal is to create community-driven curated list of Motion design and Animation links. So please contribute as much as you can :)
For doing this you can left comments below or just reach me out at tony@untimestudio.com

created on — 21/12/2018
updated on — 04/01/2019

Youtube/Vimeo/Patreon/Other channels of tutorials

Free or paid channels. These guys publish tutorials on regular basis.

Motion Markus (Patreon) — Awesome tutorials and source files about Traditional animation in After Effects [ENG]
AMB Animation Academy — Traditional animation tutorials [ENG]
Division 05 — Motion design tutorials [ENG]
Eye Design — Cinema 4d tutorials [ENG]
Howard Wimshurst — Traditional animation and Adobe Animate tutorials [ENG]
E.D. Films — Maya, After Effects, animation and compositing tutorials [ENG]
Learn Squared — Streams about different kind of creative process (design, illustration, animation etc) [ENG]
Draw with Jazza — Traditional animation and Adobe Animate tutorials [ENG]
MoGraph Mentor — Educational Streams and Interviews [ENG]
Greyscalegorilla — Cinema 4d tutorials [ENG]
Video Copilot — After Effects tutorials [ENG]
Pixel Lab — Cinema 4d tutorials [ENG]
Designar — Cinema 4d tutorials [RUS]
Videosmile — After Effects and Cinema 4d tutorials [RUS]
Aexrepressions — About expressions in After Effects [RUS]

Courses (online)

Paid courses which you can learn online when you have a time.

Classical Animation Workflow & Techniques — Traditional animation in Adobe Animate course by Henrique Barone [ENG]
Directing Short Films — Directing course by Colin Hesterly [ENG]
Character Design Workflow & Techniques — by Robert Huth [ENG]
Motion design — Motion design basics by Jorge R. Canedo E. [ENG]
Motion Design: Style Frames — Create delicious motion design stylesframes [ENG]
Introduction to Cinema 4d — [ENG]
Broadcast LITE — Learn broadcast basics in Cinema 4d and After Effects [RUS]
Snapdragon by Division05 — Create cool short animation in After Effects [ENG]
Style & Strategy by Division05 — Learn how to think [ENG]
Pluralsight — Website with tones of video tutorials and courses [ENG]
Linda — The same as Pluralsight [ENG]
The animators survival kit — Traditional animation [ENG]
Bloop animation — Traditional and 2d animation [ENG]
UXinmotion — UX/UI animation [ENG]

Schools (online)

Schools where you can learn motion design online. Research when they will have the next course. Some of them have already record tutorials so you can start learning asap.

Schools (offline)

Offline schools from all of the world. We know only schools at our region so waiting other suggestions from you :)

Vancouver film school — Canada [ENG]
Projector — Ukraine, United Kingdom, Czech [ENG/RUS]
Meat Studies — Ukraine [RUS]
Realtime School — Russia [RUS]
Scream School — Russia [RUS]
Hyper Island — World wide [DIFFERENT]
Motion Designer (2 years) — Sweden [ENG]
Motion Creative (1 year) — Sweden [ENG]

Specific tutorials

List of specific tutorials found on the internet.

Skip animation — Traditional animation [ENG]
Quadruped Locomotion — Traditional animation [ENG]
Character comfortable controllers Tutorial — After Effects [ENG]
QUICK TIP 01: GUM EXPLOSION — Cinema 4d [ENG]
QUICK TIP 02: DYNAMIC DROP — Cinema 4d [ENG]
QUICK TIP 03: TRACER TRANSITIONS — Cinema 4d [ENG]
QUICK TIP 04: BRUSH IN THE AIR — Cinema 4d [ENG]
QUICK TIP 05: DISPLACER BLUB — Cinema 4d [ENG]
QUICK TIP 06: EXTRUDED MESH — Cinema 4d [ENG]
AE Quick Tip: Rain — After Effects [ENG]
AE Quick Tip: Stroke Tails — After Effects [ENG]
Rigging a character with an undulating tail — Cinema 4d [ENG]

Tools and other goodies

AE Scripts — Templates, Scripts and Plug-ins for different kind of software
Greyscalegorilla — Cinema 4D plug-ins and products
Video Copilot — Presets, plug-ins for Adobe After Effects
Pixel Lab — Models, prepared scenes for Cinema 4d or Element 3d
Videohive — Templates, Scripts for different kind of software
Audiojungle — Stock music
Premiumbeat — Stock music
Animography — Animated types
Rocketstock — Designer Video Assets & After Effects Templates

Other

Khan Academy — Pixar — Behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs
Holdframe — Highly curated collection of project files to purchase for educational purposes
Motiongrapher — Source of inspiration and insight
Art of title — Titles from films
From up to North — Inspiration
Motion Served — Inspiration
Abduzeedo — Inspiration
The Inspiration Grid — Inspiration
Dribbble — Inspiration
After Effects Hotkeys Cheat Sheat
Motion Corpse — Project files and other goodies
Itsoncraft — Project files and other goodies
Mixed Parts — Hub of animation
Animation Alerts — platform for animators with related topics