Animated Typography: Motion Design for Dynamic Compositions

Animating Shapes 1

A course by Christophe Zidler , Freelance Motion Designer

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1,439 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Animating Shapes 1

Overview

“Lastly, I will focus on the shapes. I'll teach you to rotate the spheres in C4D and reimport the exports inside After Effects. ”

In this video lesson Christophe Zidler addresses the topic: Animating Shapes 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

“Animating Shapes In this lesson, we'll animate the shapes. In the "Design", we created a sphere. I'll show you how to animate in three different ways. First, rotating on itself, the second one, moving from up to down, and we will make the third one pop. Let me show you how. Now we're going to animate the spheres and the shapes. We already did the sphere during the Photoshop designing and I already opened the file that we'll use for the design. We'll just check a few things before animating in Edit, Project Settings, 30 FPS, and in the Render Settings, 30 Frame Rate. Okay, cool. In the Frame...”

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

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (51)
1439 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.