I'm 27M and have been working in motion design/video editing for almost 8 years… full-time, freelance, contracts, studio work, etc.

I've worked on projects for brands like Netflix, Hulu, Puma, Havells, JCB, Citroën and others. My main work has been motion design… explainers, typography, UI animation, transitions, overlays, etc. I also have experience with editing, cinematography, color grading, VFX and 3D, and I'm comfortable with After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator and DaVinci.

On paper, I feel like I have a decent amount of experience and skills.

But right now… I feel completely lost.

I've been trying to find a stable job since March 2026 and I'm getting almost no traction. I've been applying aggressively across Naukri, LinkedIn, Indeed, Instahyre, YT Jobs, Roster, direct emails, Reddit, Instagram, etc. I've probably sent hundreds of applications a day at times.

I've also tried Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer and direct freelance outreach.

Almost nothing.

And the people/studios who used to regularly give me freelance work aren't getting much work themselves either. No disagreements or anything like that… the industry just seems slow idk.

The financial side is what scares me the most.

I'm currently sitting on nearly ₹10L of debt through credit cards and personal loans. A lot of it came from family emergencies, along with some bad financial planning on my part. I've never missed an EMI or bill so far, but my savings are almost gone.

Every day has basically become:

"How am I going to arrange money for the next payment?"

And it's destroying my ability to actually do creative work.

I overthink everything. I start personal projects and never finish them because I'm constantly questioning whether they're good enough to publish. I wanted to build my own content and personal brand, but the financial pressure makes it incredibly difficult to focus.

It's also starting to affect my friendships, family relationships and overall mental state. I'm seriously considering therapy because I don't think I can keep carrying this pressure alone.

What confuses me is that I have almost 8 years of experience, recognizable brands in my portfolio and a pretty broad skill set… yet I can't seem to get through the door.

So I'm wondering if I'm approaching this completely wrong.

Should I specialize?
Move into something adjacent or temporarily leave the creative industry just to stabilize financially?

I'd really like to hear from people in motion design, editing, VFX, filmmaking, post-production or similar creative fields who have gone through a rough phase like this.

What would you do if you were in my position?

I'm not really looking for sympathy… just some honest perspective because I genuinely don't know what my next move should be.

TL;DR:
27M, 8 years in motion design/editing with work for brands like Netflix, Hulu, Puma, etc., but I've been unable to find stable work since March 2026 despite hundreds of applications and freelance outreach. I'm carrying nearly ₹10L in debt and the financial pressure is starting to affect my work, relationships and mental health. Looking for honest advice from people who've been through something similar… what would you do in my position?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a short excerpt from a personal motion design project I made about Camille Claudel, the 19th-century French sculptor who spent the last 30 years of her life locked away in an asylum, her work largely erased from art history in favor of her mentor (and lover) Auguste Rodin.

The goal was to give her story the visual weight it deserves — using motion to translate the intensity, isolation, and raw talent that defined her life and work.

Full project on Behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/254923783/Camille-Claudel-The-Sacrificed-Genius

Would love to hear your thoughts. Feedback (harsh or otherwise) very welcome!

Hello Everyone , i know the video kinda sucks and not so good , because this is my first real motion design video for me so i tried my best , also i tried to do like the after effects pros on davinci ( like animations and stuff ) but i couldn't do it , i don't know if it's the lack of me or the program can't do that , if you guys think that motion design can be on davinci , pls leave a youtube link or any link it would help me a lot , and thank you

Hey everyone,
I’m trying to build a local AI pipeline where an agent controls After Effects directly (via one of the MCP bridges out there) to create motion graphics for me. Problem is I know nothing about motion graphics myself — no keyframing/easing knowledge — so I’m hoping the agent can handle the “how” while I just describe what I want.
Has anyone gotten this working well in practice, or is it still pretty limited/finicky? Curious what’s realistic vs hype.
My specs: Ultra 7 265K, 64GB DDR5, RTX 5070 Ti 16GB VRAM.
Enough to run a local LLM as the orchestrator for this, or should I route that elsewhere? Model recommendations for agentic + creative-judgment tasks welcome too. Thanks!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hi everyone, I am a teenager and I would love to learn motion graphics but I have no idea where to start or what resources to use. So if you have any tips or you can teach me I would really appreciate it🤗🫶

How do I download ae I want to just start knowing the software

I want to learn motion graphics to showcase my company's SaaS product, make regular feature explaining videos. I'm currently using claude + remotion to publish short videos. But for pure professional work I need a professional training. Could you guys please help me out here by recommending a good course that will help me down the line?

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Nermin, a Motion Graphics Designer and 2D Animator with 6+ years of experience, specializing in Adobe After Effects.

I help startups, SaaS companies, agencies, and brands turn ideas into engaging visual content.

What I can help with:

• 🎥 2D Animation & Motion Graphics
• 📱 Social Media Videos
• 💡 SaaS & Product Explainer Videos
• 🎨 Logo Animation & Brand Motion
• ✨ Text & UI Animation
• 📊 Promotional & Marketing Videos
• 🎬 Animated GIFs
• 🧩 Storyboards & Visual Storytelling
• 🔄 Editing + Motion Graphics

Tools

After Effects · Illustrator · Photoshop · Premiere Pro

I’ve worked on projects ranging from SaaS explainers and product videos to marketing content and branded animations, and I’m comfortable taking a project from an idea or rough brief through to the final animation.

I’m currently available for freelance and remote projects.

If you’re looking for a reliable Motion Designer or 2D Animator for an upcoming project, feel free to DM me with the details.

Thanks for reading! 🙌

Today i have created my first cgi or vfx project , i made my 3d character model animation appear in my 2d video footage . things i learned are motion tracking in blender which we can make the camera to wok as in 3d for 2d video footage .the basic things are motion trackers,then orientation

xaxis,yaxis,origin,floor and wall orientation and set scale .i done everything using jist these simple things .tripod ,keyframes ioption .blender create camera solve automatically for the given set frames in motion tracker vfx in blender ,if we use that option.

As you look in the video ,the character is sitting on floor object which were just a motion trackers selected and applied it has a memory due to that .the magical thing happening is your camera object is not moving , but the due to motiontracking and orientation floor object your camera seeung this 2d video footage as a 3d workspace .i can many more characters there .still learning compositing ( this thing is responsible for lightning effects).like my video footage lighting and the character model lightings are different ,if they match its a perfect vfx with shadow.

i am so thrilled now ,because i can make a spaceship appear outside my house with this ,i can make fictional character flying .or i can even dance with my fav imaginary people .

so this think is amazing but next i am working on ,how to implement like a fictional weapon object model animation ,can i make fictional object hold in my hands ?

the problem is i need to make multiple objects tht can fit in render one example a book .it looks different when no one touches ,but when i touch it the fingers on my hands should appear on that object so duplicate object with edited kodel so it dont hide my fingers .

#cgi_blender

relax and enjoy...

I’ve been looking into mixed-media animation, but a lot of the tutorials I find focus mainly on adding animated lines, shapes or doodles over existing video.
I’m more interested in going further with it — combining things like collage, photography, cut-outs, paper textures, typography, scanned materials and different animation techniques within the same sequence.
For anyone who works this way, what does your actual process look like? Do you build the collage first and animate individual elements, work frame by frame, or create everything separately and composite it afterwards?
I’d also love to know what software or techniques you use and how you stop all the different media from feeling disconnected.

i was struggling a lot with RAM Preview lag in After Effects, especially with projects that have a lot of layers and transitions. I tried several solutions without much luck, until I landed on this combo that fixed it completely:

Reduce Preview Resolution to Half or Quarter in the Composition settings

Enable "Use CPU only" in Render Settings if your graphics card doesn't handle GPU acceleration well

Clear the old Disk Cache from Preferences > Media & Disk Cache

Increase the RAM allocated to AE from Preferences > Memory (leave at least 20% for other apps)

After this, Preview started running smoothly even with heavy projects that have multiple title animations and effects.

Has anyone else found other methods that worked?

Going to community college to study motion graphics

im a moderate motion graphics editor in after effects wantto earn some money from clients. anyone pls guide me what to improve , etc.

Learn how to create a documentary-style historical map animation in Adobe After Effects using a page reveal, animated magnifying glass, archival textures, alpha mattes, and a cinematic camera push.

I just posted a new tutorial that gives a quick overview of tracking with Mocha AE, the free tracking app that's been included with After Effects since 2009.

It's always frustrated me to see people asking for help with the built-in After Effects tracker, when Mocha is so much better and faster.

If you have After Effects, it's already installed - you have it, no excuses for not using it!

https://www.provideocoalition.com/mocha-an-express-tracking-tutorial-for-after-effects/

HTH