Joey Korenman

🤯 I made a 1980's CRT monitor effect in @rive_app in 15 minutes using the new GPU Canvas feature. When the UI for this gets built out, Rive will be able to have After Effects-like "effects" that run in real-time.

Pretty big deal IMO.

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My take on the Canva / Cavalry acquisition:

Canva is insanely well-capitalized, and buying Affinity/Cavalry seems like a play to get into the "pro" market more and take on Adobe. They're big enough to do it, competitive, and will likely beef up Cavalry's resources quite a bit, integrate with Affinity tools, etc...

I predict Cavalry keeps getting better, which will increase adoption a ton and put heat on Adobe, pushing them to develop After Effects even faster.

Win/win for motion designers, IMO.

Here is the most expensive motion design hiring mistake I keep seeing:

Promoting your best senior animator to Art Director.

Six months later, you've lost a great animator AND gained a struggling director. 😬

Executing motion and directing others to make motion are related skills, but they're
not the same skill. An AD has to brief designers, defend creative decisions to stakeholders, and hold a visual language across a whole team's output. Your best motion designer has probably never done any of that.

Before you promote someone, look for evidence of direction. Not just seniority.

Do they give useful feedback without being asked? Do they explain the rationale or just show options? Do they naturally bring junior designers along?

"Been here the longest" and "great at managing" are not the same thing.

Our free Motion Design Hiring Guide has a full section on this, including a two-track career ladder so great senior ICs can grow without being shoved into management 👇

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Drops next Monday ⏰