School of MotionReviews of schoolofmotion.com

I really loved the training. The pace is good, the build of skills is plotted very well, and the provided package files are easy to use. The only trouble I had was in navigating the platform online — it took some time to learn to easily navigate to the various spots and the interface for viewing lessons and exercises was a little clunky for me.

The most important insight first: The way I look at animation and how I create it has fundamentally changed. The individual lessons build on each other in a meaningful way and are excellently supplemented by podcasts. I also find the teaching assistants' critique of each homework assignment, published as a video, useful, as it gives you another deeper insight into what you've just created. But I also found that depending on the teaching assistant, the criticism was more or less good. I would have liked some lecturers to deal with the animation a little more deeply and thus also express a more profound criticism. Instead, in my opinion, compliments were given too often so as not to demotivate the students. I don't think it's wrong to compliment, but in order to really improve, the teaching assistants should take a little more time to point out in detail what is going badly and what is going well. Nonetheless: Great school, I will come back!

I took the After Effects course this summer and it was AMAZING. I went from having never opened the program before to creating short animations, and the lectures and bonus content were easy to follow and understand at least 85% of the time. The biggest criticism I have is that of timing. You go through a LOT of content over 8 weeks, and if you aren't near perfect in your time management it will be difficult to get everything in before the end of the course. If you're like me and have a full-time job and/or young children, it may be even more difficult to make sure everything is done. Still, if you're looking to learn animation and know you can get at least 70% of the course done on time, I'd say the course is still worth it.

I enrolled into Animation Bootcamp. The course was structured well and had valuable lessons. I think the homework assignments are very beginner friendly - however, if you have prior experience with After Effects. I would suggest another class. I would also have liked more 1 on 1 or better critique from industry professionals to talk about maybe what some clients would like or share personal work to make it more engaging with real world applicable assignments. Ideas for future changes to the course: 1. Go over how briefs work and give students an idea of how to complete one for a client. If this whole course according to the information sheet is to get someone more comfortable with After Effects and get them to start seeing with a more critical eye - harder assignments and harsher critique is a must. 2. Zoom meetings or some form of video call to show current progress on assignments will go a long way in that hands on approach to learning and will make troubleshooting problems and questions about the assignments overall easier to deal with.

I've taken extra-curricular art and design courses, both online and in-person, for over a decade, and I have to say I was blown away by the scope and depth of School of Motion's Cinema 4D Basecamp course. If you're looking for a deep-dive into this program and you've got the scratch, it's worth every penny. The only reason I'm giving this course 4 stars instead of 5 is that due to the format (mostly pre-recorded videos), there appears to be some difficulty re-recording segments in cases where updates have been made to C4D's UX/UI (e.g., a function whose name, icon, and interface location have changed in the most recent version of C4D, but the pre-recorded video has not been updated, leaving the student to figure it out on their own or to stop a lesson and message their TA).

I took 'Lights, Camera and Render' course and this course was hands down, amazing, super knowledgeable, I don't regret spending my money on for sure. I've learned SO MUCH. It was definitely worth the money. However, I didn't have a good experience with my TA as I've gotten more constructive reviews on the other learning platforms. The TA I had would mostly say 'That's cool' and no real feedback. So i would say don't expect much on getting feedback. It felt like I was talking to a bot lol My TA didn't answer my questions nor answer my emails. Also, their interface is buggy and annoying to use. It's a simple set up but I've experienced glitches, you will have to jump back and forth to different tabs and playing video was just a disaster and you may want to keep this in mind too before you take this course. But other than this, I still recommend to take this course. I really love what SOM's do and I hope they can fix these inconveniences!

A great way to accelerate your Cinema4d learning path. The videos are thorough and easy to follow

This course was fantastic as a ground level, getting started in C4D experience. What I found unfortunate was that a lot of the content is from 6+ years ago, and a lot of the functionality within C4D (R25, specifically) has changed. I found myself Googling often for workarounds, or where things were located, often to no avail, losing hours of valuable work time. I was also thrown off by the Adobe Premiere lesson in the middle of the course. A head's up to students to have some working knowledge of that would have also saved a lot of time. I thought knowing AE would be suffice. Another critique I have is the TA's interaction. I felt a lot more connected and guided through AE Kickstart with my TA, than I did with this course. (Which could have really benefitted from having more interaction, considering how complex and time-consuming a lot of the steps are.) I never received answers to any of my follow-up questions or musings to the TA's critique notes to me. And in my notes to him for my Final, to look at the ZIP file of the scene images that I provided, was ignored, and he presented an unfinished video of a text animation (that I had to include to even send anything) instead for the Summit. Sigh. Overall, I had a fantastic experience, and learned so much. For that, 4 Stars. Thanks SoM.