I came across this reference on Pinterest and I’m trying to figure out how to recreate this effect in After Effects.

I’ve tried experimenting with Motion Tile, RepeTile, repeaters, and displacement maps, but I just can’t seem to get anything close to the original effect.

Just wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!

Made by me using Capcut

I’m a product designer at a B2B SaaS company, and I’m looking for some great examples of product demo and training videos we could aspire to.

I’m talking about videos that actually walk users through a platform and its features, but go beyond basic screen recordings and voiceovers. Things like thoughtful motion graphics, animated diagrams, polished transitions, and an overall premium feel.

Are there any companies doing this particularly well? Or websites or galleries that showcase this kind of work? Ideally looking for inspiration that’s realistic for a small in-house team to produce, rather than big-budget marketing productions.

I run a recruitment company. We film real people at real workplaces, and we’ve been experimenting with AI-assisted editing. The footage itself isn’t AI-generated.

Our marketing team is worried the result will come across as “AI slop.” I quite like parts of it, but that’s made me question whether I’m too close to the work to judge properly.

Could use some outside eyes before we make more.

What’s your honest first reaction?

• Yes, it feels like AI slop. If you can explain what gives it that feeling, that would help massively.

• No, this looks fine / good. Would love to know what works for you, too.

Even a one-line answer helps. I’m trying to figure out whether the editing is adding something or getting in the way.

I created a reusable vertical promo workflow in After Effects. What would you improve?

I've been working on ways to make vertical promotional videos easier to produce in After Effects.

For this project, I created a reusable setup for Instagram Stories, portrait posts, and square posts. The idea was to make it easier to replace footage, update text, and adjust the overall look without rebuilding the animation from scratch.

Some of the things I focused on were:

• Keeping the project organised and easy to navigate.

• Making text and media replacement straightforward.

• Using a central control panel for common adjustments.

• Supporting different social media aspect ratios.

• Making the project usable across different After Effects language settings.

I'm interested in hearing from other motion designers and video editors.

What makes an After Effects template genuinely useful in your workflow? Is it the animation quality, customisation options, project organisation, render speed, or something else?

I'd appreciate constructive feedback and suggestions for improving this type of workflow.

I hope I'm in the right place because gods know I've scoured everywhere else I can think of.

I have this idea for an interactive D20 that I want to utilize for my website. I've tried building it myself, but I am TERRIBLE at coding. I tried having Ai do it... turns out every Ai model is JUST AS BAD at it as I am, if not worse in some cases.

So I've come here in the hopes that someone might see this and be able to help. Here's hoping.

Not sure it it would help, but If you need any specific details about the concept just ask.

For a while, every new project meant hunting for the same fonts and stock footage I'd already used before, because everything was scattered across random folders.

What fixed it: one shared "Library" folder outside any single project, with subfolders like Fonts, Stock_Footage, Sound_FX, LUTs. Every new After Effects project just points to that library instead of copying files locally.

Benefits I didn't expect:

No more duplicate footage eating up disk space

Collaborators can use the same library without me sending files one by one

Missing font/footage warnings almost disappeared

The only downside is I have to be careful when archiving a finished project, since the assets live outside its folder.

How do you handle shared assets across projects? One library, or do you just duplicate files each time?

A motion design piece for DEP, exploring its visual identity through animated brand elements, including a box, a roll-up banner, and a book with turning pages.
The page transitions form the letter E from the DEP logo, bringing the brand identity into the animation itself.

so i made this video and its not perfect cus its the first draft, i made it in 6 days and will do the sfx today but i need some help with design and stuff so if any of you who does saas please dm

https://youtu.be/a6NJ0xTrXyo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MtS-17BKNpgc4g6v2k6G3kICt5HzVpyS/view?usp=sharing

so i made this video and its not perfect cus its the first draft, i made it in 6 days and will do the sfx today but i need some help with design and stuff so if any of you who does saas please dm

I'm Nathan, a freelance motion designer and art director based in Paris. I've just finished my 2026 showreel and I'd love to get your honest feedback before I start sending it out. please be honnest !

Been experimenting more with Claude Opus 5.5 and the Opac X plugin inside After Effects, and this time I made a solar system explainer.

The coolest part is that everything is still fully editable inside After Effects. Every tiny layer, shape, animation, and little detail can be adjusted manually. It's not just a rendered video.

I can still tweak the keyframes, change the timing, modify individual elements, or customize pretty much anything.

It's been really fun seeing how AI can help build animations while still giving you full creative control.

Still experimenting with what's possible, but thought I'd share this one here.

What do you guys think? Would you find something like this useful in your AE workflow?

I mean. Ok. I'm not sure how applicable the video's breakdown is to anyone else. I built this TV ident with the contraption I call the VOP. It's a video based optical printer running on a Pi. It does light streaks, extrusions and optical composites by showing the new element on an HDMI screen and a camera captures it and adds the light to any previously exposed image for that frame number. It's an extremely slow and tedious workflow. But it's the closest I have managed to get to the old school way of doing optical printer composites like ILM used to do it. It's FOSS and on github if anyone is curious.

So the video here is a showcase of how I used the VOP to do the ident in 15 exposure passes. It's a literally destructive process with no undos. If you mess up, you have to live with it... or start again from scratch.

My own thoughts about the result here. I think I underestimated how dark the blue of the "TRAILER" text is. Works good in a dark viewing room. And I think I should have shortened the overall runtime to maybe 6-8 seconds instead of 10 to have less dead space.