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I'm looking to connect with someone who creates 3D architectural walkthroughs or motion graphics videos for real estate developers.

The idea is to show how a building or apartment project will look once construction is completed, using realistic 3D renders, exterior/interior visualizations, and cinematic walkthrough videos.

If you work in this space or know someone who does, please comment or DM me. Would love to connect and discuss a potential collaboration! 🤝

Just wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!

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.

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.

Made by me using Capcut

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’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.

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.

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?

I used to name my layers whatever came to mind: "Comp 1", "logo final", "logo final v2", "logo FINAL FINAL". Fine on a small project, chaos on anything with more than 20 layers.

What fixed it: a strict prefix system.

BG_ for background elements

TXT_ for text layers

CTRL_ for control nulls

FX_ for anything with an effect stack

Now when I open a project from three months ago, I can find what I need in seconds instead of scrubbing through 40 unnamed layers.

The afternoon I lost was spent untangling a client project with zero naming logic, just to swap one logo version.

Does anyone else use a prefix system, or do you organize layers a different way?

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