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How to be a Motion Designer Posted by James Wignall Nick Campbell of Digital Kitchen / greyscalegorilla gives insightful tips for students wanting to get into Motion Design. (Thanks, Nick.) How to be a Motion Designer4.5536 Posted on 9 February 2009 \| Tags: a, be, Campbell, designer, digital, greyscalegorilla, how, kitchen, lecture, MGFest, Motion, Nick, talk, to VN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 4.5/5 (36 votes cast) 2 responses to “How to be a Motion Designer” Comment by SBurns: Tuesday, March 17th 2009 at 7:19 pm \| Not really sure why I would be the first to comment on this GEM of a recording, but how about a huge thanks to Nick Campbell for giving such a great presentation (in such a limited amount of time) I found this super helpful. I am one of the students he is speaking of in terms of finding work and I am feeling a little better after viewing this. UN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Log in to Reply Comment by SBurns: Tuesday, March 17th 2009 at 7:21 pm \| Not really sure why I would be the first to comment on this GEM of a recording, but how about a huge thanks to Nick Campbell for giving such a great presentation (in such a limited amount of time) I found this super helpful. I am one of the students he is speaking of in terms of finding work and I am feeling a little better after viewing this. Also, his personal blog section of his site is LOADED w/ other great posts, valuable insight from Nick’s friends, and great tutorials. All around badass! UN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. You must be logged in to post a comment.