Moving Forward - Awesome Things You Can Do

So after about three and a half months, I thin it's safe to say that we can all open After Effects and produce something. But there are countless tools out there to help us advance our skills and continue to grow in motion graphics and animation.

There are several websites, organizations, companies, VFX studios that recognize and appreciate the works of amateur or professional graphic designers, animators, and motion graphics artists.

One website that I found to be really cool was motiongraphics.nu. This website allows you to upload any work or project that you have created and either in your free time or as part of your job or other work.

One of the videos that I found fascinating was this one. Check it out.

It has some really, really cool videos on motion graphics.

Another really cool website is hitrecord.org. It is an online collaborative production company founded and owned by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt. You basically create an account, and can start working on anyone's project or put something up of your own and make it a worldwide collaboration.

Just by searching 'animation' you can find 100s of projects or collaborations to work on.