Every creative person has a problem with an art block, where you have to get your inspiration from somewhere, but don’t know where to get it from. Representatives of art specialties, such as motion designers and animators, know that they have to come up with something new and fresh every time. Getting inspiration is possible when a designer talks to their colleagues, attends exhibitions, participates in master classes, and sees the work of top design studios and other freelance designers.
Here are major sites that will help beginner motion designers and animators watch trends and get their inspiration from the works of top designers at the moment. Here you will find creative and original ideas, as well as ideas for the realization of your project.
1. Behance
Behance is a free service where you can place your words into an online portfolio. Adobe but this company in 2012; and after it, the service became a part of Adobe Creative Cloud. Behance is a multi-million collection of works from different designers, developers, and artistic people from all over the world. The best authors received awards and get placed in galleries; that’s why their works are seen by many people, as well as motion designers and animators who came here to get their inspiration. By placing your portfolio on Behance, you can also send links to your potential clients and employers. Here, you can learn about animation & motion graphics trends, as well as what is hot on the market.
2. Vimeo
Vimeo is a platform for graphic designers and motion designers to exchange videos. It was created in 2004 by a group of cinematographers. From those times, the platform has more than 80 million creators, most of which are motion designers, animators, digital painters, cinematographers, musicians, and other artists. These people use the service for exchanging and promoting their works. Vimeo is not the same as YouTube because of its artistic creativity and originality. But it doesn’t mean that artists don’t have to promote their works on YouTube, especially if they have a following there. Here, you can get background video examples and see the templates.
3. Dribbble
Dribbble is a social platform for designers. It works similarly to Twitter, but instead of sending 140-symbol text messages, users publish 400* 300-pixel photos. Just like Twitter, Dribbble became massively popular because of its promotion by motion designers and animators. However, it is a bit difficult to get working with this platform because it works only with invitations, and those invitations or limited.
You have to invite a person, who’s already registered on the website. On average, one person can send two messages. A designer can get this invitation when they choose to purchase a pro account for a year; that’s why the number of followers is limited.
4. Pinterest
It is a social platform where you can exchange visual content. Pics and videos will help you understand design better; motion design included. Here, you can get lots of ideas and get lost in animation content for hours.
5. Motionographer
This site will allow you to find many exciting videos to inspire every designer for greater work. This resource will give you lots of templates and an understanding of what’s hot on the market.
6. Inspiration Grid
You will find many examples and works that will not leave you indifferent. Whenever you need a new idea, this site will be a good helper.
7. Art of the title
The specialty of this site is that you can download different titles. You can get inspired by original words and letters transitions. The best works will help your projects get better.