Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
Block Letters
A course by RYLSEE ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Block Letters
Overview
“From blockbuster movies to your favorite musician, restaurant, or brand: block letters play a huge role in our daily landscape. Here I’ll show you some simple tricks that will give visual impact to your message. ”
In this video lesson RYLSEE ☻ addresses the topic: Block Letters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence. Combine playful lettering with motion graphics to create eye-catching GIFs that stand out on social media.
Partial transcription of the video
“ BLOCK LETTERS We're now in the second part of this lesson, the block letter. As I've described it earlier, block letters are letters made of foundation. They're usually heavier. Often used for titles. Something that has a strong visual impact. These block letters and the script letters often mix well within lettering compositions. This is not the point here today, but it's always good to know. Let's move. A simple technique to draw a block letter is the fence technique, as I call it. Let's try it with an A. We have our letter, and now it comes to... Imagine that we'll be tracing a fence a...”
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Course summary for: Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
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Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Animation, Digital Lettering, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Typography
RYLSEE ☻
A course by RYLSEE ☻
Cyril Vouilloz, better known as RYLSEE, is a Swiss visual artist and author based in Berlin. He has been drawing for as long as he can remember and turned his childhood hobby into a 20-year career in visual arts. RYLSEE is a freelance designer and one of the founding members of Urban Spree, an arts and music venue in the heart of Berlin. He also runs lettering workshops for individuals, schools, universities, and companies.
RYLSEE has worked with clients including Nike, LinkedIn, and Converse. He has presented at art exhibitions all over the world and a number of his artworks have gained global attention, including his viral “Too Shy to Rap” design. In 2017 RYLSEE published How to Play With Letters, a guide on how to add playful touches to lettering. More recently he has moved into animated design, and his “New Post” Instagram sticker has been used over a billion times on the platform.
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