Motion for Designers
Bring your design projects to life with After Effects
Learn how to turn design elements into animations using After Effects. You’ll explore the principles of animation, work on rhythm and movement, and learn how to animate shapes, logos and typography, using techniques you can apply directly to your own projects. You’ll also experiment with expressions, 3D, reusable templates and AI tools, developing your own project from concept through to final export.
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What would you like to create?
Are you a designer looking to add animation to your skill set?
Do you work in graphic design or communications and want to bring your projects to life?
Do you work in web or UI design and want to explore motion design in your digital projects?
Do you want to learn After Effects and create animations without needing any prior experience of the software?
What you’ll learn to do?
Apply animation principles to your design projects;
Create animations of shapes, logos and typography in After Effects;
Work on rhythm, timing and movement to create more expressive animations;
Use expressions to automate and simplify animations;
Create simple 3D compositions with cameras and lighting;
Develop editable templates to reuse and adapt your animations;
Integrate AI tools into your motion design process;
Export your animations in formats suitable for different platforms.
Who will you be learning from
Lecturer at ESAD Matosinhos, where he teaches the Interactive Laboratory course and is in charge of the Prototyping Workshop 3, which combines the 3D printing lab with a maker space. He has over 15 years’ professional experience in audiovisual and multimedia and currently works across the fields of electronics, microcontroller programming and digital fabrication. In his classes and workshop, he guides students through projects from the initial sketch to the finished physical object. In this course, he demonstrates this process as applied to 3D printing: sketching, taking measurements, modelling in Fusion, preparing the file in the slicer and printing.
How much do you need to invest
Short Courses
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