Monday Meeting

This week we did a quick recap of SIGGRAPH since we skipped it last week. The main focus of this week's call was about having a career in mograph. Some harsh truths about what it takes to make it in …

This week the group talks reviews a couple reels and talks a briefly at the end of the call about using Linkedin for doing sales and cold emailing. 

If you'd like to join in, learn more, or get notes…

There are so many resources for learning motion design.  From free tutorials to paid courses and everything in between, what's the best way to go?  Pros and Cons?  And once you learn more skills, how…

Have you noticed the industry seems to be shifting a lot lately? We have too. This week we discuss how the industry is changing. Studios closing and downsizing. The huge increase in freelancers. Lots…

This week we discuss a lot having to do with invoicing. How to deal with late payments, overtime, and more.

As always, you can join in or learn more at https://www.mondaymeeting.org

We have been doing this for one year! This week we discussed what our first year of meetings has been like and how thankful we are for you, the participants and our plans going forward. Such as movin…

 This week we have a pretty loose discussion about ways to generate passive income, some chat about creating tutorials and how that could generate revenue, and more. The chatroom was super active dur…

This week we chat with Noah Wohl about being a business owner in the motion design industry, how he got started, why a business vs. freelance, and lots of hot questions from participants. 

 As alway…

This week we catch up with a lot of attendees to see how their yearly goals are going.  Are people accomplishing them?  Have some been put on the back burner?  Some good conversations come about whil…

This week we discuss is it worth splitting your business or types of work into different businesses?  Or should you keep it all under one roof?  We also have a great discussion about parenting and ho…

 This week we discuss how you incorporate Research and Development into your project workflow.  Do you set aside time to do it?  How much time do you spend with R&D?  The group weighs in.

As always, …

This week we discuss the blunt nature of the industry: Does being a fantastic artist and good at what you do really get you more jobs or is there more to it? Can you "cheat" your way into more lucrat…

This week we discuss time management. How do remote workers vs. on site workers, best and worst practices, and more!

As always, you can learn more and join in at https://www.mondaymeeting.org.

 Raphael joined us this week to talk about his most recent project, "METERS." He goes into how he developed some of his procedural materials, his inspiration and takes questions from the participants…

 This week, guest Kyle Hamrick joins the call to discuss his 30 days of AE Text Tool experiments while dropping a ton of juicy After Effects tips and tricks!  Kyle covers a bunch of cool technical tr…

 For this meeting, we discuss finding negotiation and etiquette with in the motion graphics industry.  This is a topic that has been coming up a lot in the various Slack channels and on Twitter.  The…

 This week, guest Tyler Bay joins the call to discuss his Houdini wizardry, tutorials and tips of getting started with Houdini.  If you have never heard of Houdini or are a seasoned artist, this epis…

This week, we hosted our first live reel critiques! If you want to follow along visually, the video will be up at mondaymeeting.org. You can also get a link to all the reels we reviewed there.

As alw…