Animated Lettering for GIFs: Boost Your Online Presence
Alternative Motions
A course by RYLSEE ☻ , Visual Artist
About the video: Alternative Motions
Overview
“In this lesson, I will demonstrate some other ways of animating the words you’ve chosen. ”
In this video lesson RYLSEE ☻ addresses the topic: Alternative Motions, 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
“ ALTERNATIVE MOTIONS For this second example, we'll take the same base, and I'll show you how to animate it in two different ways. Same as before. We go back to the +, Screen Size. It opens a new tab. Then we go on the other side. Grab the pencil. Tools. Add, and here we can choose Either Take a photo as before or Insert a photo if you have already taken it. Lower case, we've got it. Now we can see that our GIF from before appeared here. We'll do the other "tonight" with the block. Same as in the previous example. Select it and then it allows you to... frame it to the side you want. Decent...”
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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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