Animated Typography: Motion Design for Dynamic Compositions
2D Design Photoshop 1
A course by Christophe Zidler , Freelance Motion Designer
About the video: 2D Design Photoshop 1
Overview
“The next two lessons are about experimenting and playing around in Photoshop in order to lay the foundations of your poster”
In this video lesson Christophe Zidler addresses the topic: 2D Design Photoshop 1, 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
“2D Design Photoshop In this lesson, we're gonna go in Photoshop to play with font, color, composition and shape in order to create our first 2D design. We will also go to Cinema 4D to create a sphere. Let me show you how. Now we are in Photoshop. We're gonna create a new file. We click on Web. I want to do some from Instagram. The resolution is 1200 pixels most of the time, but we're gonna double that, because we'll need this file for the 3D later and we need a high resolution for the texture. We're gonna do 2400 pixels. I don't like the artboards of Photoshop, so I'm gonna uncheck that. I'...”
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Course summary for: Animated Typography: Motion Design for Dynamic Compositions
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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
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.
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