5 Ways To ACTUALLY Improve Your Work

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This video is different than the usual tutorial. I wanted to talk a little bit about how you can improve your craft since it can be a little more complicated than just watching a bunch of tutorials. Even if we spend every waking hour working it takes more than just that to get better. You need the right mindset and approach, which can sometimes be difficult if you aren’t aware of what to focus on. Hopefully this video helps you with that.

As always, thank you for watching!

Feel free to skip around:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Learning The Fundamentals
00:42 Everyone knows how to use a knife...
00:56 Principles of Animation
01:03 Old vs new work
01:13 Why you should learn the basics
01:45 Dont Be A Dinosaur
02:06 Always Be A Student
02:15 How I Am Trying To Evolve
02:38 Learning Through Skillshare
03:10 My Learning Path
03:44 Free 1 month trial
04:05 The Most Important Skill To Practice
04:29 You have the responsibility
04:50 Solving problems makes money
04:53 How To Develop Problem Solving
05:17 Why its important to know the fundamentals
05:40 Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
06:13 Make Friends
06:47 The Importance of Feedback
07:37 Take Breaks
08:55 Final Remarks

The equipment:
Sony a7iii
Tamron 28-75
Cinebloom 10%
Deity V-MIC D3
Tascam DR-10L
Peak Design Travel Tripod - Aluminium
Amaran 100D + Neewer Softbox

Mac Studio Max M1 64gb Ram
Asus ProArt 27” Monitor

Music Used:
Kyle Cox - That should be me - Instrumental

[brunoraddatz]

My name is Bruno, and I'm a Brazilian fan of your channel for a few months now. I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for the incredible work you do.

As a fellow creator, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve my skills and knowledge, and your tutorials have been an invaluable resource. Your clear and concise explanations, combined with your passion for the subject, have truly helped me elevate my work to the next level.

Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and expertise with the world. Your dedication to your craft is truly inspiring, and I'm so grateful to have found your channel.

[sarkisalytv]

Yey! Another video to learn! Awesome! Thanks for your uploads man! More power!

[maniksingh]

Do you edit your own videos? How do you manage the client's work and your own YouTube channel also you have a family as well. How do you manage all this? I am a freelance video editor as well and I am finding it difficult to manage my time between work and learning new skills can you share some knowledge on this topic you can also create a video on this topic. It will help a lot. Also, you create amazing content, lots of energy to you 🔥🔥

[scenesbysirrfvivaadsirrfvi]

Favourite creator rn! And thanks for mentioning the last point. I went through a burnout and it took me an year to come back on my feet again. And just to mention, your channel has played the most significant role in making me fall in love with motion graphics and video editing. Also, I wanna appreciate how much it intrigues me and inspires me the way you use motion graphics as a tool for storytelling. The design, the stylisation, the rhythm of the tutorials, all of it is just so pleasing and warm and ofcourse knowledgeable. More power to you man!

[lindstenvfx]

Lots of value in this video. Not only are the points covered extremely well put and articulated, the visuals and sound design complement it so well. I learned both from the main purpose of the video, and I also gained a lot of inspiration from your visual storytelling. Super valuable for video editors, thank you Mapal!

[saymon_tops]

Please help, I'm trying to repeat this effect for the 3rd hour 0:24, are you doing it thanks to GRID + WARP MESH, or are there other effects involved? Your videos are unbelievably inspiring, you are a talent

[UttkarshBhagotra]

i need a video on all the effects you do in this video

[sneaky_]

Skymography is one of the bestest content creator like you & hands down ur works are so awesome !
I learn so much from you guys.

[eddvlogsmotiongraphicsproj]

This is great advice man, thank you for the video!
Really liked what you said about gaining confidence to help you keep going and keep pushing yourself.
Sometimes learning about motion design (or learning anything) can feel overwhelming, and you can feel like you are not cut out for it... but with practice, patience you can do it!

[azizbekurinbaev]

my favorite channel changed my after effects workflow

[Rook]

Incredible and well thought out advice

[IceStonW]

as we say in Brazil I've been "dating" your channel for some days and now after more than 10 videos bingewatched I'm finally subscribing. thank you for sharing your knowledge

[azizbekurinbaev]

thank you so much for skillshare i'm learning so much such a good channel

[JANjeweetzali]

I saw a 30 second TV commercial I really liked, ran to my room, captured it on my PC and started to made it myself researching tons and tons of things. It was super scary at first but actually awesome. By checking the material frame by frame I learned so much about this type of animation (It was a mix of stop motion, fake stop motion and "real footage" (arms moving things around). What fps is used, that they dont just use black and white but actually its slightly purple and white, which fits the rest of the colors, how they align movement of fake stop motion and real arm movements (just don't move the arm in real life, only move hand and the arm away), but also cool things like how to make compositions that feel balanced... i cant explain it. WHen to break the fake stop motion effect and when not.. Its not just refrabricating the thing.. Im more thinking like: THATS GEnius! Getting in the same mindset as the real maker. Getting the animation.
I still like your video's Mapal, you teached me to remake things. If I ever make some money this way I will send you some. I clicked on the Skillshare link. You still come up with cool videos: Not too beginnerfriendly. That's the hard part now that I bootcamped Ae and Ps for 3 months: finding videos NOT covering the basics. Hopefully they have those kind of videos there. And otherwise i still have plenty of videos of you that i still need to watch.

[johnsalem]

Hello, Mapal! Thank you so so much for all of your hard work on youtube. I'm a subscriber for a couple of months now and I've learned a crazy amount of stuff from you. Thank you! But I have a question, maybe you could do a video on your gear and pc as well? It's really hard to understand what to really prioritize in your tools sometimes for editing/working with 3d, especially if you're on a budget)

[tandonluv]

2 days late to watch this. Loved it. Agree with the community point so much coz i joined a community of editors in India, since I am based out of there, and damn it has helped me a lot....But great video again bro ❣❣

[sarahcrawley]

Been going through your videos and feeling so inspired by your work! Thanks for all the amazing content you’re putting out there!

[GC_]

thanks for the tips Mapal, as an editor it helped me a lot.

[vagasbundo]

Can you make a tutorial on the "tip card title" animations? the one with the blue bg and the grid moving along with the scale of the text

[deka_who]

These videos are really inspiring, thanks for all the tips!