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| Motion Graphics Evening Class starts 9 August 2022 |
This online course is taught by experienced industry professionals and aims to prepare students for careers in the motion graphic and motion design industries.
The market for skilled motion designers has never been bigger, and London is host to the world’s largest motion design community. To find out more, visit the official course page here.
What is Motion Graphics?
Industries as diverse as broadcast, games, web, advertising and UX/UI all use some form of motion design to communicate with their audiences.
Motion design is a rapidly-evolving discipline that combines animation and design principles to create compelling moving image content. This evening course introduces students to the theory and practice of creating motion graphics.
Escape Studios Motion Graphics Demo Reel
Check out our students' latest work.
Course Content
Week 1 - Introduction to Motion Graphics
- History
- What is Motion Graphics, what do we all love about it and aspire to create?
- Types of animation and basic frame by frame
- Introduction to the Adobe Suite and Cinema 4D (C4D)
- Briefing, concept, moodboard, storyboard and style frame
- Project - Simple Loop Animation - GIF
- Homework feedback
- The basic principles of animation
- Introduction to After Effects and Adobe suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge)
- Introduction to C4D
- Integrating After Effects and C4D
- Project - Open Title / promo
Week 4 - Typography basics
- Homework Feedback
- How to use and animate typography on your project
- Focusing your ideas, looking further
- Integrating After Effects and C4D and more
- Project - Open Title
Week 5 and 6 - Basic character animation
- Homework feedback
- Character design in Illustrator/Photoshop
- Character rig in After Effects
- Character animation
- Project - Character Animation
Week 7 - Briefing and pitching idea
- Prepare your ideal project
- Deciding your direction, moodboards, storyboards
- Big review of all we’ve learnt so far
- Thinking about sound
- The art of pitching
- Project - Storyboard and Animatics for your ideal project
- Homework feedback
- Using and manipulating images for animation
- Creating and using textures
- Using footage
- Compositing
- Refining and pitching your idea
- Project - TV Ident
- Mastering your ident
- How to push it further, make more with what you have
- Professional delivery
- Project - Beyond the TV Ident
Week 11 - Team work
- Your strength
- Deadline
- Working under pressure
- Team player
- Project - Beyond Escape Studios animation set
- Work feedback
- Making more with what you have
- Presentation
- Showreel
- Where and how to get a job
- Project - Build portfolio and marketing
12 Week Evening Class Official Page
To find out more about this online evening class, visit the official course page here.
Motion Graphics Resources
To see more about Motion Graphics at Escape Studios, see the links below:
The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our new BA/MArt, now recruiting for September 2022 follow this link. To apply, visit the official page here.
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