School of MotionReviews of schoolofmotion.com

Well worth the cost and effort in my experience!!! I've just finished my third SOM course (Photoshop + Illustrator Unleashed, Design Kickstart and After Effects Kickstart) and plan on doing a few more. It can be hard to stay on top of the assignments but once it's over the amount you learn is pretty incredible and all the lessons are there online whenever you want! The projects are as fun as they are challenging, all instructors have been excellent and the TAs are helpful and encouraging. Can't wait to learn more with SOM! :)

I've been an After Effects artist for 10 years now and I've always known if I could write expressions and using code to animate in AE I could achieve more and make my life a lot easier. I've seen some amazing things achieved in AE using expressions and its about time to fully immerse myself in this world. My expressions knowledge before this course was from freely available tutorials online and by looking up forums, I know a handful of useful functions like "wiggle" and I would store expressions written by other AE users in my personal library for whenever I need them but I didn't have the skills to write them from scratch. This course help me to understand how Expressions are structured and broken down. The two instructor Zack and Nol makes learning to code very enjoyable, I love their dynamic. They've shown real world examples on the types of projects that uses expressions extensively. I got great feedback from our TA Shea Lord, and felted encouraged along the way. This is my first school of motion course and it's been a great experience with the teachers, TA and how everything was structured. Valuable skills acquired like, being able to create rigs so I could reuse for my projects. Many repetitive tasks that I had to manually keyframe I could use Expressions to automate, having properties dynamically change to other properties. With the knowledge gained I'm able to look up expressions online and have a better understanding of how it was put together and how I could use certain parts of it for my work. Expressions is a great skill to add to my toolset as an After Effects artist and honestly where the true power lies in After Effects as a software for creative professionals.

As a recent graduate of the Photoshop and Illustrator Unleashed class, I can say it's a great foundation for those starting to work in Motion design. I came to the class because I was wasting a lot of time watching bad tutorials and not really learning what I needed to know. I decided to find a more holistic approach and School of Motion did not disappoint. The Platform is easy to use, the lessons are thoughtful and build on each in a way that makes learning easy. The homework is meaningful, giving you a good chance to apply what you learn. They have a nice balance not overwhelming you with material but still keeping things challenging, and the individual feedback from your TA, gives you a place to ask specific questions and learn some extra tricks - while being cheered on (and let's face it we can all use the encouragement!) The class offered a ton of useful and interesting content in addition to the weekly lessons, and it's all now available to me whenever I need to go back and get a refresher. The only negative I have is that it's clear at times that to course is a little old already, as some of the program interfaces have changed a little, but this is not surprising at the rate these programs change. All in all a great value and extremely useful and I will 100% take more classes from them in the future.

Animation Bootcamp is the first course I have taken at School of Motion and it was excellent. Great content and structure. I am going to be doing another course from them soon.

This course was exactly as described. Animation Bootcamp was very challenging, and the instructor and TA were so helpful, always pressing me to do my best. The content was relevant and the pace was fast. I learned a lot in a short time.

I had been watching the classes offered by School of Motion for a while, and when Advanced Motion Techniques was announced, I jumped at the opportunity. The classes were extremely well planned, and the my TA was exactly what I was looking for. The pacing can be challenging for a working professional, so be prepared to work after hours or on weekends to get your homework completed. But, I learned what I was expecting to learn, and more. Great class, and I look forward to taking another course in the near future.

A combination of helpful TAs and information packed lectures make this a great intro course!

I really loved this class. Very informative and learned so much. The support of the TAs and all the extra resources we also wonderful. I would definitely recommend this class.