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Ben Marriott

Motion designer and illustrator teaching animation and video editing tutorials.

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Capture

Camera equipment1

  • Extension tubes

    first cited February 2026mixed views on it

    “But I do have these which are cheap as chips macro extension tubes which you can add to your camera lens to get it to zoom in further and focus at a shorter distance. It is not perfect. The edges do get well blurry.”
    View source at 4:36from February 2026

Editing and post

Editing software14

  • Adobe After Effects

    cited in 46 videos

    “I started an illustrator creating a long gem shape for the stroke of the X then in After Effects animating an emerald gradient sliding to the side and filled each segment of the gem with that gradient and offset them so it looked like it was reflecting the light at different angles”
    View source at 0:48from October 2023+ 45 more sources
  • Adobe Illustrator

    cited in 12 videosmixed views on it

    “I pulled up some references and started designing in illustrator”
    View source at 0:44from January 2023+ 11 more sources
  • Adobe Photoshop

    cited in 9 videosfirst cited January 2023

    “I edited it in Photoshop a bit to make it resemble fungal veins a bit more put that in its own comp in After Effects and apply it autofill to that comp”
    View source at 1:31from January 2023+ 8 more sources
  • Deep Glow

    cited in 7 videosspeaks highly of it

    “…so I brought out the big guns deep glow which is a paid plug-in but I think it's well worth it for the control you get”
    View source at 7:19from July 2023+ 6 more sources

Productivity software1

  • Notepad

    first cited October 2026positive about it

    “So, the first thing we're going to do is jump into a motion designer's most underrated piece of software, Notepad.”
    View source at 2:48from October 2026

Creator tools12

  • Procreate

    cited in 7 videos

    “…so I drew a painterly version of my eye using procreate gave myself some fantastic lashes and inscribed the commands onto my eyelid using the text tool”
    View source at 1:35from May 2023+ 6 more sources
  • Callipeg

    cited in 5 videosspeaks highly of it

    “I animated the door opening in calipeg my favorite animation app on the iPad”
    View source at 0:36from September 2022+ 4 more sources
  • Unsplash

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited January 2023positive about it

    “…unsplash is where I go first when I need stock imagery they're pretty Arctic some of the time completely free and User submitted”
    View source at 3:09from August 2023+ 1 more source
  • Texture Labs halftone method/tutorial

    first cited July 2026speaks highly of it

    “Brady from Texture Labs has created a wonderfully genius method and detailed tutorial on just that. It gives a better result and is really simple to test and adjust in real time.”
    View source at 7:50from July 2026

Platforms

Membership platforms2

  • Patreon

    first cited December 2023

    “I am a a patreon not a patreon Creator but a frequent patreon user I know you have a patreon as well so remind it to everyone support our good friend lonus over on patreon”
    View source at 13:34from December 2023
  • Circle

    first cited April 2023positive about it

    “…the community group is held on I'm using circle.so um as a platform so you'll be able to log in”
    View source at 25:56from April 2023

Courses4

Desk

Computers11

Monitors1

  • Philips CRT television (used as extra monitor)

    first cited February 2024positive about it

    “…so I left my digital workspace and adventured out into the real world coming home with this sweet Cathod-Ray-Child phillip(s) I got an RCA cable and an RCA to HDMI adapter and now it works just like an extra monitor”
    View source at 7:16from February 2024

Storage2

Everything else

Other2

  • Brand New

    first cited December 2023speaks highly of it

    “And a special thanks to Armin Vit & Brand New, their collection of these resources was invaluable in the research for this video.”
    View sourcefrom December 2023
  • Casiotone keyboard

    first cited April 2023has reservations

    “…yes I get a lot of questions on the keyboard and that like what is this keyboard it looks cool this keyboard is like um Casio tone it's not that great”
    View source at 38:30from April 2023

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