Expressive Typography in Motion with After Effects
Key Programs
A course by Mat Voyce , Graphic and Motion Designer
About the video: Key Programs
Overview
“Let us briefly explore the software needed for the course, along with any little extra bits that will help your process along the way.”
In this video lesson Mat Voyce addresses the topic: Key Programs, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Typography in Motion with After Effects. Learn to create letterforms filled with personality and bring them to life through playful animation.
Partial transcription of the video
“Key Programs In this next lesson, we're going to briefly look at both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects and how these two programs, when working together and when combined, can really help create the perfect kinetic type. They're built to work together and to be used together. We will briefly talk about that and I will show you some cool tips and tricks along the way. First up, we have Illustrator. This is the perfect program to prepare your type and to decide on styles and fonts and colours and even strokes. These things can be changed further down the line, but it's always good to...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Typography in Motion with After Effects
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Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
3D Animation, Animation, Kinetic Typography, Motion Graphics, Typography

Mat Voyce
A course by Mat Voyce
Mat Voyce’s passion for design roots back to his childhood, when he won a cover design contest for Futurama comics held by Matt Greoning, himself. He studied graphic design at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Since then, his career in graphic and motion design has flourished. He specializes in 2D animation, and describes his work as “experimenting with kinetic typography, infusing letterforms with character and creating animated GIFs, stickers and short films for clients globally.”
His client list includes Adobe, Disney+, BBC, Nike, Netflix, Lacoste, The Los Angeles Times, Facebook, Honda, GoDaddy, Kimemaster, GIPHY and EFFA. Mat’s work has been featured in publications for PRINT Mag, typegoodness, The Designest, Wix, Loop, WeChat and others. He was also voted one of the Top 5 GIPHY Artists in 2020.
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