Animated Typography: Motion Design for Dynamic Compositions

Coming Up With Your Idea and Defining a Brief

A course by Christophe Zidler , Freelance Motion Designer

100% positive reviews (51)

1,437 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Coming Up With Your Idea and Defining a Brief

Overview

“First, I will show you how to define a brief for yourself to set some boundaries on your project and not ending up turning around for hours. ”

In this video lesson Christophe Zidler addresses the topic: Coming Up With Your Idea and Defining a Brief, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Typography: Motion Design for Dynamic Compositions. Create engaging animated typography compositions with Cinema 4D, Photoshop, and After Effects.

Partial transcription of the video

“Coming up with Your Idea and Defining a Brief In this lesson, I will tell you what we're gonna do in this course. We're gonna create a 3D animated poster using Cinema 4D, Photoshop and After Effects. Normally, when we work with a client, they send us the brief. Today, we'll create our own brief to have some fun. I'm gonna create a set of rules for myself. This is not gonna be too easy or too hard either. This is what I did for this project. We're gonna have two fonts, maybe four colors, the perfect loop, some shapes, particularly some boxes, and also some spheres. You should create your own...”

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

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (51)
1437 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

Christophe Zidler

A course by Christophe Zidler

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Freelance Motion Designer

Christophe Zidler is a freelance motion designer from France. He studied at multiple multimedia schools including GOBELINS, and interned at a number of graphic design agencies in Paris. He also worked as a graphic and motion designer for the web design agency Ultranoir, which gave him the opportunity to really hone his animation skills.

Christophe then moved to Budapest, where he kick-started his career as a freelancer. Since then, he has worked with clients including Renault, Sisley, Glamour, Vogue, Toyota, and Microsoft as well as creative agencies and start-ups. He also shares his work with almost 10K followers on Instagram.