School of MotionReviews of schoolofmotion.com

School of Motion is the first place of a brick and mortar or online school that actually taught the principles of animation along side exercises. I’ve taken a lot of their classes and have had mixed reactions of different classes. Joey, Sanders and Eyedesign have the best classes. Well informed, motivating and well worth the money. In the scripting class I wasn’t able to get the intro classes script to work and it was very disheartening. I found the character animators class to lack enthusiasm. I love the feedback sessions with TA’s but the only gripe would be that sometimes TAs felt competitive or showed favorites. My recommendation would be to get a masters level C4D class and other high level classes. Have SoM be treated like any other school so students can get student discount rates from companies like Adobe, Maxon, SideFX etc. I’m always a fan! Best.

I've taken a trillion online courses, and this is the only one that has ever really got me to DO the thing. The courses are high-quality and the instructions not only know how to design, they also know how to teach (usually you only get one or the other). Not only that, the support and excitment in the cohorts is contagious. My one critique is that these courses really don't seem to be designed with women in mind. Many women get stuck doing things like housework, admin work, and childcare that men continually weezle their way out of (jerks) and although this is by no means the school's fault, it's something they should really really take into consideration. Why? Because 20+ hours a week on top of a full-time job is already going to bring many folks to the brink of burnout, let alone someone who gets sacked with all the unpaid admin tasks of her family. In fact, even not having kids myself and trying my best to ensure a feminist household, I definitely hit major burnout during this course and can't say I've quite recovered yet. The way to fix this is two-fold. Either make the course longer, by building in more catch-up time, or charge an additional fee for people who want access to feedback after the course has finished. For example you can charge a normal price for the session with feedback limited to the session's timeframe, or one where you allow the person to join whatever session they want (or limit it to a certain number). Women's rights issues aside, the course really is a bit too rigorous for the working person, so some adaptations to make it more reasonable would be highly appreciated! In general, these courses are so good, which is why it's painful not to have enough time to do well in them. So I think something should be done about this. I really need a course of this quality to be inspired, and I really DO need the push that School of Motion offers, I just don't want to end up feeling like a truck has run over me after I finish a course, ya know?