One thing I’ve learned from working on motion projects: good organization can save you more time ...

One thing I’ve learned from working on motion projects: good organization can save you more time ...One thing I’ve learned from working on motion projects: good organization can save you more time ...

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Yan Graphics

• Sep 17

One thing I’ve learned from working on motion projects: good organization can save you more time than you think.

Keeping project files organized, using a clear naming structure, and maintaining a clean timeline might feel like extra work while you're creating — but it makes everything much easier when the project gets bigger, revisions come in, or you need to revisit something weeks later.

Be honest — do you organize your files from the start, or does “I’ll organize it later” usually win? 😂

Here’s a little viewport peek from Tappea before the final render.

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Adobe After Effects Motion Design Animation

Mykola Malyhin

pro

• Sep 17

Agreed on clear naming and a clean timeline. The benefit becomes especially obvious when a project comes back for revisions. Do you have a folder structure you reuse across motion projects?

Yan Graphics

• Sep 18

Absolutely!

Luis Andrey Ramirez Chavarria

pro

• Sep 13

I am gathering cool references for my own work as a Motion Designer, and this one caught my eye this week. Day 3 of 60-days-collecting-awesome-motion-design-references I love the way this is designed, based on abstract shapes and concepts with a coding visual language that we are all already familiar with. This is a great reference in this modern era where we deal more and more with products and services that live on the internet, not on a physical product. This animation was created by Odd Fellows in collaboration with Figma.

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Diego Sánchez

• Sep 14

60 days of references is a serious commitment. Curious, are you mostly drawn to the same visual language each time, or does it shift a lot depending on the day?

Stacy · Heed Collective

pro

• Sep 14

Can I call this productive procrastination? 👀 Was playing with kinetic type while working on another post and liked these too much not to share them separately.

Made in my aftrglo No timeline. No keyframes. Free to try ✨ Your turn to play!

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