Expressive Typography in Motion with After Effects
The All Important Colour Application
A course by Mat Voyce , Graphic and Motion Designer
About the video: The All Important Colour Application
Overview
“Now we will take a look at a few key sites that will really help us explore colour combinations. This will be of aid when it comes to selecting the perfect tone partnership that will bring your type to life.”
In this video lesson Mat Voyce addresses the topic: The All Important Colour Application, 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
“In this lesson, we're going to look back at our selections of colors. We're going to really focus on the pallets we looked at. Again, referring back to our sketch to see if that's the right combination for us. and then we're going to really organize everything and get it moving into the animation stage. So. Let's jump straight back into Illustrator. and get these colours applied. So we're going to be looking at introducing some nice bright colours. You might be looking at muted colours, you might be looking at dull colours or really contrasting colours. want to look at colours that kind of ...”
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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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