100% money back guarantee
If you're disappointed for whatever reason, you'll get every cent back within 14 days after the purchase. Only applies to the single full-price purchase of the course.
This course will teach you to understand and to write your own expressions. You’ll get so much more than just theory. It will be a real practice with unique and complex illustrations. You’ll finally get rid of tons of useless keyframes and get your work automized. We’ll show you how to work with many functions and teach you so many cool and unique techniques that will save your precious time.
This course will give you new opportunities and free you from the fears of using expressions
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Expressions. Something from another planet.
You see other people using Expressions but you don’t know a thing about them and you’re too scared to start?
Expressions are an integral AE part that gives more opportunities than you’ll ever get with an interface. Expressions will make your projects more flexible and will save you hours of work.
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I don’t know programming at all
You did try to learn it but still no luck?
Well, you won’t need programming skills with Expressions. You’ll learn the basics in your first lessons.
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I can hardly find where to use them
You know how they work yet have no idea how to apply them?
You need good practice based on complex illustrations where you’ll get the best out of Expressions.
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Math for kids
So you see maths functions and operations in Expressions and it keeps pushing you away?
Good news! AE has all the tools to change the way you see them. And we’ll give you some great examples to free you from any fear of using them. You’ll get your thirst for knowledge back!
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I love the routine
There’s nothing wrong with routine but you have no idea how much time you actually waste!
You’ll learn tons of helpful functions and they’ll change the way you work forever.
Is this course for me?
This course was designed for motion designers who want to streamline their workflow. It will be helpful for both the beginners who want to learn the Expressions and those who are more experienced.
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Motion Designers
This course will be perfect for both beginners and advanced motion designers. Also, it is great for motion designers who want to organize and optimize their projects for work and sales with stocks and explainers.
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Animators
Aspiring and professional animators who just got into motion and have no programming experience.
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Programmers
Programmers who want to try their hand in graphics and animations
What will I learn in the Expression Trip course?
You’ll get to know where to start. We’ll tell you some details about the whole educational process and show you the soft you’ll need plus some extra stuff you may find helpful.
Parenting, Wiggle, time, value, noise. You’ll learn the expression basics here. You’ll get to know how they work and what they are. We’ll talk about parentings, arrays, time, value, noise, loop wiggle and will make it easy and accessible to learn about them in your very first lesson.
Learn how to make your own sliders and polish your skills completing everyday tasks. We’ll scatter stars all over the night sky in just two clicks and we’ll learn how to control them at the same time.
You will learn loop variations and get to practice with them. We’ll go deeper into expressions. You’ll learn how to parent layers and create generative clouds.
In this lesson, we’ll see how if/else work and we’ll use them to add some variativity to our elements. You’ll learn more about Math functions and add more flexibility while using fewer keyframes.
Learn how to use the most powerful expressions that can free you from the keyframe slavery. Create a dynamic graphic constructor. We’ll create a loop while using no keyframes at all!
Learn how to easily change color schemes in your projects and create your own pseudo effects. Save a lot of time on your projects using them
We will begin working with advanced techniques. We’ll start with a flexible parallax and will breathe life In our city.
Path animation, Crab dance. Learn how to work with path and how to use it.
We’ll create a flexible stylized fire generator.
Learn how to animate Godzilla and make it walk just by moving its position. Create a destroyed city using one slider.
The basis that will help you understand what the scripts are, how they differ from the expressions and which advantages they provide. You will create a simple script that will help you in the animation.
In this lesson, you will make a script that will automatically add Bend It to all selected layers and add a controller with which you can smoothly change parameters of all effects simultaneously.
What will I be capable of after the Expressions trip course?
Take a look at the students' homeworks done during the course and see for yourself
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What are the course benefits?
Our goal is to make your journey to motion design as comfortable as possible so we prepared some cool features
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Free updates
Once you finish the Motion Beast course, you will continue receiving new tutorials and updates. Isn't that awesome?
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Study wherever you go
Even though we recommend using a desktop computer or a laptop, you can study on any device. But you will still need a laptop or a desktop computer for practice.
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One of a kind support
We have a whole crew of professional motion designers here to support you on the way to becoming a motion design beast. It may not be a 24/7 support, but it's still really helpful.
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Community
You will be invited to the members-only private community of motion designers from around the world on Facebook. It's a whole bunch of people that you will have a lot in common with.
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100% money back guarantee
If you're disappointed for whatever reason, you'll get every cent back within 14 days after the purchase. Only applies to the single full-price purchase of the course.
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Student and location discounts
Not-so-good exchange rate? (i.e. India/Brazil). Get in touch to get a coupon. Student? Email us from your student email or attach your student ID.
What do our students say?
"Good day! I'm on #6 now, enjoying the course. The most complicated was was the balloon rotation so far =) Actually, I've completed Motion Beast course last year, so I'm using the knowledges from the past and like your new course!"
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Natalia Litvin
Motion Designer. Kyiv, Ukraine
"It's an amazing course. I have to repeat some lesson cause sometimes it's difficult to fix some explanations but I love the course and finally I understood something about expression and javascript."
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Cesare Parmiggiani
2D Animator. Castellarano, Italy
"Wow that was challenging but worth the effort! Who would have thought that this animation could be in one layer? It blows my mind =) Awesome course guys Tnx!"
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Matan Koriat
Motion Designer. Jerusalem, Israel
Meet your tutors
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Yaroslav Kononov
School founder
The author of the first Motion Beast course, CEO of Yaroflasher studio. More than 10 years of experience in motion design and animation.
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Denys Bondartsov
Scripts & Expressions Guru
Has After Effects at his finger tips. Tutor of the offline Motion Beast Course and co-author of the Expressions course.
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Denys Siurin
Course support
An experienced 3D designer who transferred to Motion Design. Loves bringing life to simple shapes and images. Was a student of the Motion Beast course, so he knows the pain of getting through.
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Sergey Bolobaev
Course support
Loves After Effects and everything related to it. Highly skilled in organizing processes. Will help you out throughout the education process.
How much?
Expressions trip
$261
$349
- Use expressions to become super productive in After Effects.
- Automate your projects to the max and speed up your workflow by 5 times.
- Get to know expressions and scripts and learn how to create your own.
- A thoroughly designed course program for motion designers of any skill level.
- Get professional experience with complex and unique projects.
- Over a hundred different expressions will make your impossible ideas a reality.
- You never get an extra hour in a day, but you’ll definitely save a few hours to sleep!
Student and location discounts
Not-so-good exchange rate? (i.e. India/Brazil). Get in touch to get a coupon. Student? Email us from your student email or attach your student ID.
Save up to 20% with bundles
We are happy to support those who want to learn as much as possible. Enroll in a bundle of courses and enjoy the discounts.
Ultimate Motion Adventure
Motion Beast. Cinema 4D Journey, Expressions trip, Hand Drawn FX in Toon Boom, Sound Design for Animation +2 free fundamentals courses.
$1,477
$1,846
Expressions Trip & Motion Beast
$557
$698
Frequently asked questions
You can find After Effects here: https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html. It will be enough to work with the trial for some time, but we highly recommend buying a license.
This course was designed for those motion designers who already have some basic experience in AE. The whole curriculum is focused on working with expressions.
No, you don’t. We’ll help you how understand and teach you how to write your own expressions from scratch. In this course you’re going to learn programming basics too.
In this course we’ll work with expressions of different difficulty levels. You’ll easily find a use for the basic ones. And you’ll get better in programming and maths with practice. You don’t have to be an expert here, it’s just another skill you’ll get soon for sure.
If no presale or discount activities are happening, you can get in touch with us to receive a $50-off coupon. We provide coupons for countries not-so-good exchange rates and for students.
We consider a country with a not-so-good exchange rate a country, where the currency rate is more than $1 to 10 units of local currency. For example, 10.5 Botswana Pula equals $1. If your country's currency rate is lower than 1:10, we do not consider your country as a country with a not so good exchange rate.
We consider you a student if you have a valid student email address (@***.edu) and/or a valid student ID. Please either write to us from your student email or attach a picture of your student id so that we can verify your student status.
Please double check if there are no presale, sales or discount activities happening as we do not provide coupons during these periods.
If you're disappointed for whatever reason, you'll get every cent back within 14 days after the purchase. It only applies to the single full-price purchase of the course. So if you would like to use a discount coupon, or any monthly payment plan, keep in mind that you will be not eligible for the refund.
Yes, all the artwork you create on the course belongs to you. You can share and tweet and dribbble whatever animation you create. We would be grateful if you mention our school while sharing, we have @motiondesignschool accounts almost on every network.
You’ll get the best out of it within a month spending 10 hours per week. You can watch all the videos within a day but you’ll have to practice a lot to get a real result. We highly recommend you to dedicate a couple of days to do all the tasks and practice after each lesson.
This course will help you to upgrade your workflow and you’ll be able to work on more complicated projects. You’ll simplify and automate your projects for creating templates and selling them on stocks.
This course is focused on using expressions and optimization, but you’ll also get a lot of works for your portfolio. Your flexibility and speed of work will make you stand out in a crowd of competitors.
Yes. You will have access to the course as long as we exist. This will help you refresh your memory from time to time.