*"Babylon 5", season 2, ep. 2 "Revelations"

G’Kar (played by the unforgettable Andreas Katsulas who died much too soon…) would probably say something similar, if he would be confronted with the current state of the motion design industry. The level of ignorance, stupidity and laziness of some young kids is just as scary as seeing a Shadow vessel and the resulting degradation of quality that is to be expected from those generations to come indeed makes you weep. It’s really unfathomable, how someone could even get it in his mind to ask for the 10 most used effects in After Effects so he can just focus on learning them (which exactly sounds like "My work is crap, but as long as I throw on a ton of Trapcode Shine in every project, nobody will notice!") just the same as it completely eludes my comprehension, how someone cannot be bothered to explore techniques and modify them after having been pointed to a tutorial. O my gosh…! At that rate, one day we will be back to doing titles by holding up hand-painted slates in front of the camera because even a simple text animation is too much to ask from these intellectually challenged…