Re: What about "motion graphers"

>>I think you'll have to just bite the bullet and learn AE, painful as it may be.<<

Yes and no, I dunno. Years back, good 'ol Kenny LaRue (lovely fellow, I have to say) made a series of training videos for combustion where he outlined, more than anything else, 'perspective" on doing motion graphics with combustion.

Like compositing (as in motion picture work) motion graphics is all about mindset. More importantly, it's about how comfortable you are with a given program, in this instance combustion. If you have combustion under your belt, than it's a matter of applying principles to achieve goals. That's all. Really.

You can take any number of AE motion graphics tutorials, and if you understand the mechanisms of the intended process, chances are pretty good you can replicate it in combustion. So that's a good place to start, really. Take any AE tutorial, and do it. There may be some exceptions to the rule, but if you're a savvy enough combustion compositor, don't worry, be happy!