Marek Janowski
Motion Designer

Marek Janowski

Warsaw-based motion designer covering the creative-pro corner of the Mac software ecosystem — Adobe Creative Cloud, audio plugins, After Effects rendering on Apple Silicon since 2013.

Warsaw, Poland Motion design since 2013 marek@appstorrent.cfd

I do motion design for a Warsaw studio that delivers commercial work for European brands. My day-to-day toolchain is Adobe Creative Cloud on a Mac Studio, with a stack of audio plugins for the sound side. AppStorrent comes up regularly in creative-Mac chat, so I started writing reference pieces on what the catalogue actually holds for working designers.

Background

I started in motion design in 2013 at a Warsaw studio that produced explainer videos for European tech clients. That work moved me through Premiere Pro, After Effects, Cinema 4D and a long parade of audio plugins. The Mac was always the primary platform, which is why catalogue questions on AppStorrent kept landing on my desk from junior designers and freelance contractors.

Since 2021 I have run an independent practice from Warsaw, splitting time between paid client work and longer-form reference pieces for the creative-Mac press. AppStorrent Guide is my English-language reference on the Russian-language Mac torrent brand that creative pros across Central and Eastern Europe keep asking about.

Areas of focus

Adobe Creative Cloud on Mac

Daily Premiere Pro, After Effects and Illustrator workflows on Apple Silicon, with notes on what AppStorrent’s patched builds actually deliver.

macOS audio plugins

The audio side of the creative toolchain — AIR Music, Lunacy Audio, Antares AVOX, Exponential Audio reverbs.

Apple Silicon rendering

After Effects render times and Premiere export performance on M2 through M4 Mac hardware, including what changes for the patched-build catalogue.

“AppStorrent’s creative catalogue is the kind of thing every working motion designer in Central Europe has thought about at least once — the question is whether your next paying client deliverable can actually depend on a patched build, and the honest answer is no.” Marek Janowski · panel, Warsaw Creative Mac Meetup, 2024

How I approach this work

The reference pages I write here start with what real working motion designers actually face — the spelling-variant clone risk, the Creative Cloud licensing cost comparison, the question of whether a patched build can survive a paying client deliverable — and answer them straight, with cost numbers and licensing context rather than the moralising that usually surrounds anything torrent-adjacent.

I do not host downloads, mirror catalogues, or take any commercial relationship with the sites I write about. The model on this site is editorial only: longer-form Mac creative reference pages, kept current as the underlying property changes and as Adobe’s licensing keeps moving.

Timeline

2013 — 2020

Motion Designer, Warsaw studio

Commercial motion-design work for European tech clients. Daily Adobe Creative Cloud on Mac.

2018

Co-author, Mac Audio Plugin Survey 2018

Polish-language survey of the macOS audio plugin landscape across AIR Music, Lunacy Audio and Antares AVOX.

2021

Independent practice · Warsaw

Independent motion design + reference-pieces practice. AppStorrent coverage starts here.

2024 — present

Editor, AppStorrent Creative Reference

English-language reference page on the AppStorrent creative catalogue, updated when Adobe’s licensing or the catalogue materially change.

Selected writing

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