Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
How It Moves
A course by RYLSEE ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: How It Moves
Overview
“Before I animate a word, I usually consider what the natural motion of this word would be. Drawing isn’t totally necessary at this stage, but you can do it if you want. Here the primary aim is to imagine how your chosen words could move, focusing on their behavior.”
In this video lesson RYLSEE ☻ addresses the topic: How It Moves, 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
“ HOW IT MOVES Now that we experimented a bit with the different shapes and fonts styles, we're going to start thinking about the movements and the behavior of these GIFs. The way I usually do when I'm sketching and researching about movements, I imagine movements and I try to divide them into keyframes, usually from three to five frames, in order to give me a line for the future animation. I will show you. As I mentioned previously, I will work on the "tonight" GIF. I will show three different ones with three different styles of movement. The first one is the jiggly movement that I use a l...”
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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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