Animation for Typographic Compositions
Happy-Sad: A basic exercise in After Effects
A course by Holke 79 , Graphic Designer
Joined June 2015
About the video: Happy-Sad: A basic exercise in After Effects
Overview
“You will start with this simple animation but it is a result for which I will teach you to animate the text through a path or vector path in After Effects. We will also animate the smiley so that the piece is conceptually more interesting.”
In this video lesson Holke 79 addresses the topic: Happy-Sad: A basic exercise in After Effects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animation for Typographic Compositions. Learn the techniques to animate your typographic designs and share them on social media.
Partial transcription of the video
“Finally, let's start experimenting with movement typography. We'll jump to After Effects to do an exercise based on a very basic technique, very simple, you'll see it. but that will give us a super attractive result. Vamos a ello. We're going to do this animation I was talking about in the introduction, which is this animation in which we see the words happy and sad. And we have here smiley and sadly. We go directly to After Effects, we will create a new composition, in this case we will assume that we want to get this for a square format as Instagram can be, we put 1080x1080 and here we ar...”
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Course summary for: Animation for Typographic Compositions
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Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D -
Areas
3D Animation, Animation, Kinetic Typography, Typography
Holke 79
A course by Holke 79
Borja is a graphic designer specialized in motion graphics from San Sebastián, Spain. He studied journalism at the University of San Pablo in Madrid, but he soon discovered that his passion was in graphic design. After taking courses in design and animation, he began to work as a broadcast designer for TV networks like Canal+, creating motion graphics for sports matches like El Clásico (Real Madrid versus FC Barcelona) and Copa América.
He worked as a senior motion designer for Saffron Brand Consultants in Madrid, where he helped brands build their visual identity through animation. In 2019, after over a decade of working in motion design, Borja started his own motion graphic design company, Holke 79. Some of his projects include online campaigns for Converse, Aerosmith’s Last Vegas residency, an official lyrics video for Green Day, and a number of animated graphics for TV shows.
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