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Expressive Typography in Motion with After Effects

Creating Our Base Phrase in Illustrator

A course by Mat Voyce , Graphic and Motion Designer

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17,273 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Creating Our Base Phrase in Illustrator

Overview

“Let's continue with exploring how to create our basic phrase position in Illustrator, along with general file organisation and best practice to prepare for animation.”

In this video lesson Mat Voyce addresses the topic: Creating Our Base Phrase in Illustrator, 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

“Creating Our Base Phase in Illustrator It's finally time to get going. Firstly, let's look at recreating our phrase in its most basic format. We'll grab a photo of our sketch from before, bring into Illustrator, and start to create those vector shapes and organize those layers. First of all, I'm going to create a new doc. Now, I like to work at 1400 x 1400 pixels. This is quite a good size because sites like Instagram set their minimum at 1080. If you go below 1080, everything has to be upscaled and you lose quality and it starts to look a bit fuzzy. If we go a bit higher, we're much safer ...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Typography in Motion with After Effects

Level: Beginner
97% positive reviews (470)
17273 students
4 units
15 lessons (2h 32m)

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

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Graphic and Motion Designer

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.