Make The Motion Graphics Behind Your Favourite Explainer Videos.

The map animations, data visuals and documentary style you see on channels like Vox and Vice. I'll teach you to build it yourself and understand how it's made, so you can create your own work instead of following tutorials forever. Shown in After Effects.

Motion Graphics

You Know The Style When You See It

You've watched the videos where a map draws itself across the screen, where data turns into something you actually want to look at, where archival footage gets pulled together into a story. You want to make that. Maybe you've tried and it comes out close but not quite. Or you can follow a tutorial fine, but the moment you start your own idea, you don't know where to begin.

That isn't a talent problem. Most tutorials show you which buttons to press for one exact result, and never how that result was designed. So you can repeat them, but you can't yet make your own.

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What You'll Be Able To Do

Make the style yourself.

Build map animations, data visuals, documentary sequences and the rest of the editorial toolkit, to a standard you'd happily put in your portfolio.

Rebuild anything you see

Watch an animation you love and know how to approach it, instead of hunting for the exact right tutorial every time you have a new idea.

Create your own work.

Take your own concepts from idea to finished piece, rather than only remaking what someone else demonstrated.

Where To Start

Three courses, depending on where you are. Each one teaches real projects and the thinking behind them.

Beginner

Animation Master

Start here if you're new. Learn After Effects from scratch and build your first real animations, including maps, graphs and animated graphics. The foundation everything else builds on.

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Intermediate

Animation Pro

Level up your work. Concept, design and build more advanced pieces: documentary sequences, 3D maps, data and typography, with the design thinking that lets you make your own. Start here if you already know the basics.

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Maps

GEOlayers 3

Go deep on map animation, the work that defines the explainer style, taught start to finish using GEOlayers 3. No prior experience needed.

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Brand's I've Worked With

I'm Ross, and I make this stuff for a living.

I've spent more than ten years making motion graphics, and through hundreds of tutorials on the Flat Pack FX channel and courses taken by thousands of students.

I learned After Effects the slow, frustrating way, mostly by reverse-engineering work I admired until I understood how it was put together. These courses are me handing you that process directly, so you don't have to spend years piecing it together yourself.

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Ready To Make Your Own?

Pick the course that matches where you are, and start building the style you actually want to make. Every course comes with lifetime access and direct support from me.

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