Motion Graphics for Social Media: Create A Sticker Pack
Techniques in After Effects for Creating GIFs
A course by Alex Foxley , Photographer, Illustrator, Graphic Designer, and Animator
Joined July 2017
About the video: Techniques in After Effects for Creating GIFs
Overview
“Before creating your stickers, it is important to understand the different ways in which you can animate them. In this lesson, I will break down some of my animations and show you some of the animation techniques used so you can start thinking about how your animations could look. ”
In this video lesson Alex Foxley addresses the topic: Techniques in After Effects for Creating GIFs, which is part of the Domestika online course: Motion Graphics for Social Media: Create A Sticker Pack. Unleash your creativity by designing your own animated stickers from scratch and amplify your social media presence .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to be having a look at what techniques we can use when creating our animated stickers. And we're going to be doing this on After Effects. As we are working with quite short animated loops, we need to make sure that the animations themselves are simple yet effective. Now I'm going to be showing you some examples of some animated stickers that I've made in the past so you can get an idea of which techniques we're going to be using. So if we just play the animation through, you can see how they all move in their own individual ways. Let's go into some of them to see...”
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Course summary for: Motion Graphics for Social Media: Create A Sticker Pack
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Animation, Character Design, Motion Graphics, Social Media Design, Traditional illustration

Alex Foxley
A course by Alex Foxley
After graduating from university in the UK with a degree in Commercial Photography, Alex packed his bags and moved to Spain to embark on his creative career. After persevering through a series of setbacks, he has now built an impressive creative portfolio.
He has worked with brands like OFFF Book Illustration, Jump From Paper, Paperwallet, and Everpress. He has created graphics for clients like Adobe, HP, and UNIQLO. Currently, Alex is an Art Director at Vasava, a graphic design studio in Barcelona.
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