School of MotionReviews of schoolofmotion.com

Great experience I’ll carry through my career. I’m hoping to take my next class soon.

Enrolled in the Cinema4d basecamp course through School of Motion. Brilliant course, fairly fast-paced, lots of learning takes place, and good feedback. Would recommend for anyone wanting to get into the field of Motion Design

Hi there. If you are still looking for the AE course, stop here and take SOM Animation Bootcamp. You would not get as much information as here anywhere else in youtube or other courses. There is a methodology, knowledge, encouragement, explanation, critique, community, smart and experienced TAs, all you could have ever possibly imagined. I can see the difference in my projects before and after already! Thank you, SOM!

I only don't give 5 stars because of the technical difficulties/glitches I experienced with the note taking system. Other than that I loved this course (Basecamp) and EJ is a great instructor.

Animation Bootcamp (ABC), my 1st and currently only course at School of Motion, was a great experience. The course itself teaches a few of the 12 Principles Animation, those that lend themselves nicely to motion design. By the end of ABC, you will know intimately how to use the Value Graph and Speed Graph (curve editors similar to those in many animation applications). Frankly, now that I'm comfortable with the the curve editor, I can't imaging using After Effects without it. The best part of my experience was interacting with students from all over the world. Doing so helped make the immersive learning feel comfortable knowing others were in the trenches with me. Posting work on the School of Motion intranet allows you feedback from students, and you can offer yours to them as well. Students help other students. It's an interesting and certainly cost-effect alternative to bricks-and-mortar art school. Yours truly is a NSCAD College of Art and Design graduate, so I have that frame of reference for comparison; I absolutely cherish my art school experience, no question. School of Motion, alternatively, offers a streamlined, condensed delivery of information, and is very good value, especially relative to time invested. I've done tutorial-based courses in the past, and they were perfectly good ways to learn. However, because SoM has more of a school "feel" with deadlines for homework assignments, albeit soft deadlines, having that layer of structure helped me stay focused. I've signed up for Character Animation Bootcamp, a ringing endorsement I reckon, A Friendly FYI -- it is possible to complete a SoM course while working full-time (I've seen a few super-human students do it); but, I wouldn't want to have been working while in Animation Bootcamp. If you are working full-time, make sure you're prepared to work long days. In my case, Animation Bootcamp was all keyframes and curve editor work, all manual effort, so I can only suspect a course like, say, Expression Session (coding / scripting) might not necessarily require as much brute-force effort to complete. I've not take Expression Session, ergo this is pure postulation. In closing, if you're familiar with using After Effects and want to create finely-tuned motion that "feels" good without using scripts, plugins, or expressions that do it for you -- ABC is a great course. You will get out of School of Motion what you put in. SoM has my endorsement. Onward! P.s Please forgive spelling faux pas if any.

good school!

I don't have the right words to explain how valuable SOM was for me. I went in skeptical because I took courses on other platforms and felt like I got little to nothing out of them. SOM was completely different. The aspect of community was there, the TA was extremely helpful and a sense of accountability was there, and most importantly the content and quality of the actual teaching was there. I never opened c4d before I took the basecamp course. Obviously with anything that you're new to, it won't be easy and it wasn't but in the best possible way. I was challenged and pushed and I'm better for it.

This was the perfect marriage of education and entertainment. The combination of online lectures, homework, valuable feedback during assignments, podcasts, and real-world video examples all contributed to my joy in learning what I initially felt was an intimidating tool. The curriculum surpassed my expectations and I walked away feeling more confident in my ability to use After Effects. Highly recommended!