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.

hitRECord

hitRECord is a an artist collaboration project started by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The company consists of thousands of professional and amateur contributors who send in anything from a film to a song to a poem to the website, they also have a tumblr where they feature many of the works that have come in to the website. If something does make money (or is featured in a book they put out) they split the commission with the person who sent it in, whoever that may be. It really is a just a huge community of artists working together and getting their creations out there.

Occasionally they will send out requests for a particular field to help them which could be a huge step for someone who is just getting started. The youtube channel shows a lot of these and I noticed that many of them did call for an animator (even though most of them are pretty old, you could keep an eye on it, it seems to update about once a week).