Animated Typography: Motion Design for Dynamic Compositions

Animation for Typographic Composition

“Congrats! You have reached the end of the course and now you are ready to start your project. Before saying goodbye, let’s go over the steps I recommend you follow to complete the project. Start with coming up with an idea and create your brief. Set yourself some rules, define the key elements, and do a rough sketch. Then it’s time to look for inspiration and create a mood board with some typographies, colours or elements you like. Create your first design in 2D using Photoshop and then move into Cinema 4D to define your 3D design. Once your design is ready, think about how you want to animate each of the elements. Go back to your mood board if you need ideas.

Use After Effects, start with simple animations, creating loops with different positions, masks or stretching your typo. Then see what happens when you combine different techniques and move into more complex animations. Finally, combine everything and play around with your shapes: make them pop, move up and down, or rotate. Then it’s time to make everything 3D in Cinema 4D. Add some movement to each of the elements and the entire composition. Do some final adjustments, export and share your animation with the world! When you come up with your idea, think of things you like and be creative. Remember to set yourself some rules beforehand and always have some fun. I learned by practising - a lot - so don't get frustrated if a loop doesn’t work perfectly on your first try. Be patient, experiment and practise, practise, practise, and keep things simple. I hope you enjoyed this course as much as I have and I can’t wait to see your animations! Give feedback to each other, share your tricks and I will see you in the forum! Thanks! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project We've reached the end. Now you are ready to do your project. But before saying goodbye, let's review the steps. Start by coming up with your idea and create your brief. Then it's time to look for inspiration and create a mood board with any forms, colors, shapes, or animations that you like. Next, we'll move to Photoshop to create your 2D design. Then go into Cinema 4D to make it 3D. Once your design is ready, decide how to animate each of the elements. If necessary, go back to your mood board to find some inspiration. Using After Effects, let's start with simple animation. Cr...”

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Course summary for: Animated Typography: Motion Design for Dynamic Compositions

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (52)
• 1453 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (3h 50m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D

• Areas

  3D Animation, Graphic Design, Kinetic Typography, Motion Graphics, Typography