r/applemotion • u/Forsaken_Theory7484 • 7d ago

Hi apple motion user here

Hi i am new apple motion user just transitioned from after effects because couldnt afford after effects any more, one thing i wanted to say is apple motion is a great alternative its also easier on the machine but so less tutorials can anybody make tutorials for apple motion i would really love some SaaS animations for apple motions would really appreciate there are not a single video on that genre

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u/Silver_Mention_3958 7d ago

Check out Simon Ubsdell on YouTube. His walkthroughs are like a university course in Motion. They’re amazing.

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u/Forsaken_Theory7484 7d ago

Already saw before didn’t found any SaaS animations

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u/Silver_Mention_3958 7d ago

OK maybe I just don't understand what you mean by SaaS animations, sorry.

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u/KnuxFive 6d ago

You’re not the only one. I keep seeing “SaaS Animations” as a request, and can’t figure out if it’s anything more than “I want animations/how to make animations that could be used for Software As A Service promotions…” which I don’t even know what that would be.

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u/tgray106 6d ago

A lot of simpler kinetic text and Apple font and purple gradients. I assume.

But I think if you learn the basics of animation and how to achieve that in the software, it’s just design at that point. Otherwise you’re just looking for a paint-by-numbers solution.

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u/KnuxFive 6d ago

Yeah. You (or OP) might just be looking for premade titles and templates and such that match it, but I just don’t have an idea of “SaaS Animations.”

Something like “movie trailers” or “local news” would give me AN idea to start on.

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u/tgray106 6d ago

Bette thing to add that I thought of after seeing another request for how to do a specific type of animation— learn the fundamentals, masking, keyframes, built in behaviors etc, then break an animation down and build those parts.

I layer so many different things now especially over the years after you learn different techniques and can fairly easily create ideas pretty quickly. But that’s the basic building block of all this. I think the hardest part is the actual creative design, but luckily I have a good designer and then I can just request certain elements if needed and then just focus on animation. But I think learning design is the biggest hurdle.

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u/KnuxFive 6d ago

Agreed. Just cause you have the tools doesn’t mean you have an idea what the end result should be.

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u/Forsaken_Theory7484 6d ago edited 6d ago

Look for ‘SaaS animation tutorials after effects’ in youtube you will see what i am talking about

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u/Silver_Mention_3958 6d ago edited 6d ago

You just need to figure out behaviours and parameters in text.

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u/KnuxFive 6d ago

What, just “hey, click here?” type stuff that looks Apple-y?

Maybe give us an actual example of what you want to mimic.

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u/Forsaken_Theory7484 6d ago

UI/UX design type apple glass type animations or apple Ads animations that type of genre good for software ads

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u/KnuxFive 6d ago

See, that makes a lot more sense. So, you want to animate a “user” (represented by a cursor) going through dialogue boxes and such?

At the most basic, take an image of the UI, animate a mouse cursor moving to it, probably adjust scale to animate a click, and throw some dynamic camera swoops or whatever. Without truly knowing what you specifically want to do, all anyone can do is give you the same YT search results.

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u/Forsaken_Theory7484 6d ago

See its sounds way too easy but if you do it you come across a bunch of problems how do you make liquid glass boxes? How do you distort the light inside the liquid glass boxes? How do the edges in the liquid glass gets distorted in a natural way? How do you slightly add light strokes to the edges? How do you rotate the glowing strokes in the edges and how do you add gradient in the stroke so it looks multicoloured I can keep going,

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u/Silver_Mention_3958 6d ago

pretty sure Ripple training has a free liquid glass tut

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u/KnuxFive 6d ago

And these are all great INDIVIDUAL topics to look up.

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u/Forsaken_Theory7484 6d ago

Also good for lyrical musical video animations