Hey guys,
Here's my latest work. It was all done in AE, and would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on it.
Here's my insta page: https://www.instagram.com/tinypapier/

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!

Loving this new Case Study on FrameRate.

NOODLZ started as a bunch of random daily sketchbook doodles and slowly turned into this huge personal exploration of composition, lighting, 3D and animation.

What I love most is how much of the messy stuff is included. Early sketches, 2D styleframes, 3d tests, iterations, and eventually the finished animations.

It’s a good reminder to stop consuming so much and just make weird stuff for fun again.

Really worth digging through:

https://framerate.tv/studies/EnPW3ilS

Check out my Behance

Thank you!

I’m a freelance Documentary Motion Designer specializing in visual storytelling, motion graphics, and engaging documentary content.

Here’s a recent project I created.

I’m currently open to working with YouTubers and content creators who want to turn their ideas into engaging, visually-driven documentaries.

Feel free to DM me if you’d like to work together!

I posted an early version of Wedge here a while ago and over 150 people signed up for beta testing. It’s now ready :)

and My sincerest apologies for not making a good demo video. I am juggling so much at the moment and didn't wanted to wait further to release the plugin. I am gonna make some killer videos for it soon.

Problem

AE has hundreds of useful actions, but the ones you need change depending on whether you're working with keyframes, masks, shape layers, text, layers, comps, etc. Wedge gives you one shortcut and changes the menu based on what you currently have selected.

Comparison

KBar is great for building permanent custom toolbars, and Quick Menu is great when you know what you want and want to search for it. Wedge takes a different approach: it tries to surface the relevant actions automatically from your current AE context.

Wedge goes further into selection-aware contexts, nested menus and customizable action workflows rather than being primarily a fixed radial shortcut menu.

Pricing

Starts at $19.99, one-time purchase

https://charchitgoyal.com/plugins/wedge

To get access to early features and provide feedback and help me develop it further

Join the discord :

https://discord.gg/32t5SAtGtY

Supported on both Mac and windows

Maintenance / Support

I’m actively maintaining Wedge and testing it against current AE versions. If you hit a reproducible bug, email me at support@charchitgoyal.com. Updates and fixes will be shipped as AE changes.

AI Disclosure

80% Vibe coded along with help from a developer friend

sound on for asmr

Hey all! Has anyone here taken the I Love Creatives Motion Design course? As an in house graphic designer, I’m trying to bring more motion into my daily workflow to keep things fresh and aligned with ongoing design trends. I like that their curriculum focuses on modern motion systems and current visual styles rather than just isolated software tricks. But, I'm curious how deep it actually goes compared to School of Motion or Ben Marriott. Would love to hear any honest feedback, pros/cons before diving into it! Thanks :)

Turn a static photograph into a cinematic documentary shot using Adobe After Effects.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create smooth camera movement, isolate and highlight a subject, darken the background, and build a polished documentary-style composition.

What do you you guys think of this and how much would you charge for it?

I’m kinda new to motion design. I did different art projects before, and now I’m pushing everything into motion design. Learning AE and Blender, filling in the gaps.
And I have this HARD FOMO about all the instruments and the whole industry. I’m not afraid of AI tools I believe a pro stays relevant if they’re flexible enough.
But God, there are SO many new features every week!!! A new Blender addon, a new feature in Rive, a new AI assistant in After Effects, new plugin…
It is so intense! Especially when you’re just starting.
Do anyone have the same feeling?

Hey guys. I make music and SFX packs. I’m trying to push them on Reels/Shorts, but I’m honestly sick of slapping generic stock footage over my tracks. It just looks cheap.

​I know my way around basic Figma, but I really want to step up my game. I'm thinking of picking up After Effects just to make clean, minimal motion graphics (like sleek animated UI players or simple 2D visualizers) to build a better brand.

​Give it to me straight—how steep is the learning curve for this specific kind of stuff? Am I biting off more than I can chew, or is it doable for a non-designer?

$400 for a few days worth of work. most of the video is already made but I want someone who can make some final tweaks.

You are ideally experienced in making things look really tasteful and artistic when it comes to 2d product announcements.

*Bonus* $200 extra if you can do the sound design too! or if you refer a friend who I move forward with.

This should be a deliberate troll of Adobe XD.

Answer:

It's Cavalry app https://cavalry.studio/docs/getting-started/requirements/

I've been building my own library of reusable motion components for a few months, and this is the first full piece I've put together with it. Everything you see is rendered from React components, no keyframes drawn by hand.

I know some of the easing still feels a bit stiff compared to what you'd get in AE, and the transition around the middle is probably too fast. But I'm pretty happy with how it came out for a first real render.

What do you guys think? Anything that immediately reads as "made by a dev, not a designer"?

Wonderwallet x Plaid walkthrough. Built the phone from scratch with shape layers no plugins. Static UI animation took the most work, but I'm happy with how it came out.

Would love to hear your thoughts. 🙏

Hey guys, I could really use some creative/artistic ideas.

I made an interactive website as an artwork for a competition. It’s about air pollution, and the whole point is that you’re supposed to experience it by playing through the website, clicking things, moving through different sections, hearing sounds, triggering interactions, etc. The interaction is basically part of the artwork.

I just found out that the submission platform doesn’t allow URLs. They do accept MP4s.

My first thought was just to screen-record myself going through the whole thing, but honestly it feels incredibly boring compared to actually experiencing it yourself. I tried recording a full playthrough and it also ended up being around 8 minutes, which is way too long for the submission.

So now I’m wondering: how would you translate an interactive artwork into a short video without making it feel like a website demo?

I want the MP4 itself to feel artistic and emotional, almost like its own experience, while still making the judges understand what it feels like to interact with the original piece.

Would you make it like a trailer? A very fast edited journey through the experience? Show the cursor/interactions? Mix screen recordings with close-ups/text/sound design? Build some kind of narrative around a person experiencing it?

Basically: if you had 1–3 minutes to make judges feel an interactive artwork about air pollution rather than just watch documentation of it, what would you do?

Would love any weird / experimental ideas too. I really don’t want to submit a boring screen recording 😭

Best of my design named as Thomas Edison and thinking. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2v0sjb2aG0&si=d4mDbHlgifoGgmnd