Resources &amp; Tools for Motion Designers

Brands in Motion

A central hub for motion design within branding.

Art of the Title

An inspiration collection dedicated to title sequence design in film, TV, and beyond.

Stash

Go-to reference for motion projects.

Eyecandy

A visual technique library for visual technique lovers to get lost.

Motion Folios

Step inside the portfolios of the world's finest motion designers.

Dribbble Animation

Trending animations, motion graphics, and 3D designs.

Behance Motion

Amazing short films, motion graphics reels, and endlessly entertaining animated GIFs.

Vidclue

Large library of short-form video inspiration for brands and businesses.

More Design Inspiration

Animation & Video Tools for Motion Designers

Discover the essential animation and video tools motion designers rely on every day, from keyframe animation and motion graphics software to video editing, encoding, and post-production.

Animation & Motion Tools

After Effects

The industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software.

Cavalry

Powerful 2D animation software for Mac and Windows.

Jitter

A design tool for motion.

Linearity Move

Fast and intuitive motion design for dynamic, effortless animation.

Procreate Dreams

An all-new animation app packed with powerful tools that anyone can use.

Rive

Create and ship beautiful animations to any platform collaboratively.

LottieFiles

Create, manage and implement lightweight animations across websites and apps.

SVGator

SVG Animation Creator.

Moko

Studio-grade animations that help you get attention.

Spirit

Create high-quality animations directly in the browser.

Haiku Animator

Create engaging animations for any app or website.

Hana

A new canvas for interactive design.

More Motion & Animation Tools

Video Editing & Production Software

Adobe Premiere Pro

Leading video editing software for creating incredible videos fast.

DaVinci Resolve

Professional video editing, color, effects and audio post production.

Final Cut Pro

Professional post-production and video editing.

Frame.io

A centralized platform for all your video production files, feedback, and people.

CapCut

Experience the future of video editing with massive AI features.

Screen Studio

A professional screen recorder for macOS.

Shutter Encoder

A free video converter and encoder with batch processing, built on FFmpeg.

HandBrake

An open-source tool for converting video to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

Nuke

A node-based VFX and film editing sotware.

More Video Editing & Production Software

3D & Visual Effects Tools

Explore industry-standard 3D software, GPU renderers, and plugin ecosystems powering everything from product animations and broadcast graphics to cinematic visual effects.

Cinema 4D

A professional 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering software solution.

Blender

Free and open 3D creation software.

Spline

A place to design and collaborate in 3D.

Womp

Easiest, goopiest 3D software of your dreams.

Houdini

3D content creation tools for artists creating film, TV, gamedev and more.

Unreal Engine

A powerful real-time 3D creation tool.

Redshift

A powerful 3D rendering software.

OctaneRender

The world’s first and fastest unbiased, spectrally correct GPU render engine.

Greyscalegorilla

Premium plugins, materials, and HDRIs.

More 3D & Visual Effects Tools

AI Tools for Motion Design

Find AI-powered tools for generating video, 3D assets, voice, music, and motion that are reshaping how motion designers concept, create, and iterate.

AI Video & Image Generation

Runway

Building AI to simulate the world.

Midjourney

AI-powered platform for creating stunning digital art.

Kling AI

AI video generator with cinematic quality and realistic motion.

Sora

OpenAI's AI video model generating hyperreal videos with sound.

Pika

AI video platform turning text, images, and video into animations.

Luma AI

AI video and image generation platform powered by Dream Machine.

Hailuo AI

AI video generator from text and image.

Adobe Firefly

A suite of generative AI models and tools by Adobe.

Krea

An easy way to generate images, video and sound with AI.

More AI Design Tools

AI Animation & Motion

Descript

An AI-powered, fully featured, end-to-end video editor.

Hera

Create awesome motion graphics by chatting with Hera.

AnimateAI

All-in-one AI video generator with consistent story characters.

Viggle

Make any character move as you want.

Topaz Labs

Professional-grade photo and video editing powered by AI.

Magic Animator

Animate your Figma designs in seconds with AI.

Fliki

Turn text into engaging videos with professional AI voices.

Gomotion

AI-powered motion graphics generation for creators and marketers.

Morphic

Transforming the future of storytelling using breakthrough technologies.

AI 3D Generation & Animation

Meshy AI

The most popular and intuitive AI 3D model generator.

Spline AI

Generate objects, animations, and textures using prompts.

Tripo

Generate 3D models and animation powered by AI in seconds.

Rodin AI

Free AI 3D model generator for everyone.

Autodesk Flow Studio

Generate 3D models from text and images.

Secret Sauce 3D

AI-powered 3D mesh generation tool built for professional 3D artists.

More AI 3D Tools

AI Voice & Audio

ElevenLabs

AI voice generator platform for speech, cloning, and audio agents.

Soundraw

AI-powered music generator for creating royalty-free custom tracks.

LOVO

Hyper realistic AI voice generator that captivates your audience.

Murf

AI voice solution suite.

Adobe Podcast

AI-powered audio recording and editing, all in the web.

Suno

AI music generator and editor.

Assets & Source Material for Motion Projects

Speed up your production workflow with stock footage, licensed music, illustration libraries, 3D textures, and HDRIs that give motion projects a professional foundation without starting from scratch.

Stock Footage & Video Assets

Artlist

Unlimited stock footage.

Adobe Stock

Unlock your creativity with stock images, stock videos, stock photos, and more.

Storyblocks

A stock media platform for creators.

Shutterstock

High quality stock images, photos, vectors, video and music.

Pond5

Large collection of royalty-free stock video, music, motion graphics and more.

Mixkit

High quality HD videos and art to use free of charge.

Coverr

Free stock videos you can recreate with AI.

Freepik Videos

Free stock video footage.

Videezy

Free HD stock footage and 4K videos.

More Stock Assets

Sound & Music Libraries

Epidemic Sound

Royalty-free music and sound effects platform for video creators.

Artlist SFX

Unlimited royalty-free sound effects library for video creators.

Soundstripe

Royalty-free music and sound effects for video creators and brands.

Musicbed

Premium curated music licensing platform for filmmakers and brands.

PremiumBeat

Curated royalty-free music and sound effects by Shutterstock.

Soundraw

AI-powered music generator for creating royalty-free custom tracks.

MotionSound

Comprehensive sound effects library designed for motion designers.

BOOM Library

Professional royalty-free sound effects for film, games, and media.

Motion Array

All-in-one platform for video templates, footage, music, and plugins.

Illustration & Character Assets

Blush

Create, mix, and customize illustrations made by artists around the world.

unDraw

Lot´s of free illustration that match with your brand colors on the fly.

Humaaans

Mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library by Pablo Stanley.

Storyset

Awesome free customizable illustrations for your next project.

DrawKit

Beautiful, free illustrations. Updated weekly.

Open Peeps

A hand-drawn illustration library.

Stubborn Generator

Design your own person using ready elements and styles with this character generator.

Shapefest

A massive library of 3D Illustrations.

Characterz

Biggest diverse mix and match 3D illustration library.

Loops

3D abstract animated shapes perfectly looped.

Glass abstract animated shapes

A collection of stunning glass abstract animated shapes.

Shift

Convert any text or SVG vector to 3D animated video.

Fresh Folk

A mix-and-match illustration library of a diverse range of characters and objects.

People 3D characters

A large 3D characters library in stylish outfits.

Handz

Free illustration library featuring 3D hands.

More Illustration Resources

Backgrounds & Textures

Poly Haven

A public 3D asset library.

Textures

Textures for 3D, grapic design and Photoshop.

ambientCG

Open source PBR materials, HDRIs, and models for 3D art, game development, VFX and more.

Poliigon

High quality 3D assets that support the world’s leading 3D artists.

Flyerwrk Textures

High quality abstract textures and edgy handmade backgrounds.

Lost + Taken

Free texture stock photos.

Creative Market Textures

Textures in all styles and colors.

Envato Textures

Seasonal, organic and abstract textures.

Grainient

High-Quality gradient and abstract AI generated backgrounds.

More Backgrounds & Textures

Typography & Color for Motion Design

Explore font libraries, animated typefaces, and color palette tools that help motion designers make confident typography and color decisions across style frames, titles, and final compositions.

Fonts & Type Inspiration

Animography

Animated typefaces for Adobe After Effects.

Variable Fonts

A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts.

Leon Sans

Geometric sans-serif typeface made with code by Jongmin Kim.

Adobe Fonts

Thousands of high-quality fonts included with any Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

Google Fonts

Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography.

Pangram Pangram

Quality typefaces. All fonts are free to try or for personal projects.

Fontshare

A free fonts service, making quality fonts accessible to all.

Future Fonts

Where type designers sell fonts in progress.

type.lol

Discover type from hundreds of independent foundries.

Typewolf

Independent type resources, type trends and the best type combinations.

FontGoggles

An interactive font viewer and comparer for various font formats.

Fontjoy

Font pairing made simple. Generate font combinations with deep learning.

TYPE01

News and inspiration across type design, branding, graphics, digital, motion, 3D and more.

Letterform Archive

Browse digitized objects of lettering, typography, and graphic design.

typo/graphic posters

An inspiration platform on behalf of design through the poster medium.

More Typography Resources

Color Tools

Adobe Color

Create color themes, explore color inspiration and find color trends.

Coolors

Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes.

Color Hunt

Free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes.

Khroma

Discover, search, and save color combos and palettes powered by AI.

Huemint

Use machine learning to create unique color schemes for your brand, website or graphic.

Happy Hues

Curated colors in context.

Palettemaker

Create and test drive color palettes on real design examples.

Grabient

Beautiful gradient inspiration.

ColorFlow

Advanced mesh gradient generator and editor.

More Color Tools

Prototyping & UI/UX Animation

Design and prototype micro-interactions, UI transitions, and interactive animations with tools built for bridging the gap between motion design and product development.

Figma

Industry-standard design platform for design, prototyping, and team collaboration.

Principle

Animate your designs and build high fidelity interactive prototypes and user flows.

ProtoPie

Intuitive tool to prototype and perfect ideas.

Rive

Create and ship beautiful animations to any platform collaboratively.

Jitter

A design tool for motion.

LottieLab

The motion design tool for product teams.

Flow

UX animation for designers. Animate Figma, Sketch or SVGs.

Origami Studio

Prototyping tool by designers at Facebook to explore, iterate, and test your ideas.

More Design & Prototyping Tools

Moio

Create fully interactive prototypes without coding.

Beta

Learning & Community

Level up your motion design skills and stay connected to the industry with essential books, tutorials, editorial blogs, and podcasts covering craft, career, and the business side of motion.

Books for Motion Designers

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas

Richard Williams

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas

Design for Motion: Fundamentals and Techniques of Motion Design

Austin Shaw

Motion Design Toolkit: Principles, Practice, and Techniques

Austin Shaw, John Colette

Animated Storytelling: Simple Steps for Creating Animation & Motion Graphics

Liz Blazer

Motion Graphics: Principles and Practices from the Ground Up

Ian Crook, Peter Beare

The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media

Bruce Block

The Moving Image Workshop: Introducing animation, motion graphics and visual effects in 45 practical projects

Heather D. Freeman

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

More Design Books

Blogs, Communities & Podcasts

Motionographer

Curated showcase and editorial platform for motion design work.

School of Motion

In-depth articles on motion design techniques, tools, and careers.

Motion Design School

Educational blog with motion design tutorials and creative insights.

School of Motion Podcast

Podcast covering motion design industry trends and career insights.

Greyscalegorilla Podcast

Podcast exploring 3D design, Cinema 4D, and creative workflows.

Motion Hatch Podcast

Podcast about the business side of freelance motion design.

The Collective Podcast

Podcast with deep conversations featuring top creatives and directors.

Mograph Podcast

Weekly podcast on motion graphics tools, techniques, and industry talk.

RevThink Podcast

Podcast about running thriving creative agencies and studios.