Reflecting on a fantastic run with the @MantaNetwork team. 🔱 Over the past 3 years, I worked as a Motion Designer, From bringing the brand to life on global billboards and event stages to crafting the product launches and website motion that defined our digital presence. Grateful for the people, the pace, the trust to create, and leadership @superanonymousk @victorone111 Now open to new opportunities & collaborations.

There isn't a race to be won just a life to be lived

Very fun tool, highly recommended.

Easing on this is making me sick. Honestly wouldn't expect this from a company built around motion.

The real test of a motion system isn't how cool the hero asset looks. It's whether the rest of the team can actually use it to ship things without needing you to hand-craft every single variation.

Big fan of Gumroad, but both the app and the video feel a like generic AI slop. We can do better!

The day i learned about simple deform #b3d

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Hi founders and hiring managers, please stop asking for unpaid work trials. Do this instead: Few months back I interviewed with @brexHQ for a motion designer role. Didn't end up getting it (it was on-site in SF, visa stuff made it a bit tricky). But their process really stuck with me. Instead of giving an unpaid take-home assignment, they hire you for a day and you actually work with the team, remote or on-site. -You actually get to see how they work, their process, how they give feedback, the pace, not just stare at a brief -They get to see how you think and collaborate, not just judge one deliverable -Nobody's working for free, nobody's guessing An take-home assignment only tells a company what you can make. A trial day tells both sides if you can actually work together. One of these is worth so much more. More companies should be doing this.

So I got invited to a motion design briefing call with a bunch of other motion designers. I declined.
Yet despite declining, I still got an email asking for a free "assignment": a full 1-minute video, for free.
Guess they didn't want to spend time talking to each candidate individually or even asking what they charge, but somehow have the audacity to ask for free work that would probably take a designer a week to finish. If this sounds familiar, take it as a sign: a company that won't value your time won't value your work either.

I get the argument, but I think it cuts both ways. I know plenty of people from the US and Europe who earn a big salary there and can live like kings in Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, etc. Their geo-adjusted salary doesn’t suddenly drop because their purchasing power is much higher abroad. Now flip that around. Someone from a lower-wage country earning 1/5 or 1/10 of that salary might want to visit the US or Europe for a couple of weeks. They could easily spend months of their salary on a short vacation. And it’s not just travel. Better infrastructure, access to opportunities, the ability to relocate, attend conferences, meet clients, or simply choose where you want to live all have value. If the output and performance are genuinely the same, I agree that location shouldn’t be used as an excuse to massively discount someone’s work. But pretending location has zero economic impact on someone’s life is also an oversimplification.