School of MotionReviews of schoolofmotion.com

I had a teacher with school of motion that was not very encouraging to my creative journey. My teacher offered a lot of critique with very little positive notes. Obviously, I want to be challenged and critiqued in a course to become a better artist, but he certainly could have done a better job of highlighting my strong points and effective and compelling parts of my animations. As well as being more sensitive and thoughtful about how he was communicating feedback. The course content was very excellent, as well as the additional add-ons such as podcasts with big industry professionals. I loved the lessons with the insights they provided on excelling in animation. All in all, this receives a middle of the road review, because the information was superb and very solid, but the person I was working with was unfortunately very poor.

Animation Bootcamp is of course exhaustive (and exhausting!). It's a great foundational jumpstart and really forced me to practice the principals I was being taught. Aside from that fact that it doesn't seem they've updated the course for almost a decade (AE has a lot of new features, yet you're learning older more inefficient workflows, like dealing with track mattes), my main problem is the inconsistency in quality of the TAs. You can clearly see the feedback every student gets from their TA; some of them give very pointed specific feedback. Mine almost exclusively gave me generic positive feedback rather than prodding me toward better improvements. In short, I wanted to be challenged by my TA, but I wasn't. And other students appeared to be getting that challenge. AB: please update this wonderful and challenging course (references to "recent updates in the 2014 version of AE") so that your students can be prepared for a modern career in motion graphics. Thanks!

I learned some very valuable information. I feel like it could have been more intense. I think School of Motion should look into diversity among their teachers. Overall it was a good experience and I will be taking more classes at SOM.

The course was fine, pretty basic. You get two lectures and two exercises a week.