Hello all! Glad I could join you here. My name is Bruno and I'm from Brazil. I want to go for a mid-life carrer change into vfx and motion design, coming from software development. I've been studying AE for 15 months now, trying to implement techniques in a few private social media videos whenever free time allows. To a lesser extent, along the way, I grappled with C4D for 3d motion tracking and Stable Diffusion generative ai. Due to my involvement with a capoeira group here in Brazil, I've been amateurishly filming people dancing, moving, or playing instruments. Practising shooting skills but also drawing inspiration for video editing and compositing. No expensive filming equips yet, just a phone camera. I hope my IT profession skills make way for a quicker understanding of the groundworks of vfx artistry. If anything else, it allows me to adapt my workflow regularly and explore pathways for problem solving very autonomously. Deciding for a carrer change this stage of life and all, I feel it's not my place becoming a master vfx wizard, but I'm sure I can consistently deliver if I remain practising and doing more online courses. I'll sort out a few videos for a demoreel sometime, as well as clean up a fresh insta account I made, thinking it could portfolio my past and future works. Going foward, maybe freelance, or, luck willing, employed, I also hope I can mingle my interests with my future earnings. I like music, I got many friends in freelance music production, so working with music videos seems like a nobrainer. I still dig programming, so ui/ux animation nudge that spot too.

I've been studying AE for 15 months now, trying to implement techniques in a few private social media videos. Not sure about my niche yet, though I find music videos and ui/ux interesting