Motion designer - course 66,360 rub. from Moscow Digital Academy, training 6 months, date November 28, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / November 29, 2023
Many of our students, who came from scratch, work in well-known digital agencies, IT companies or as freelancers around the world.
Walt Disney's 12 Principles
How to create and animate primitives (shapes), work in After Effects
Portfolio analysis and tips for improving it
The lead designer and the MDA team will analyze your portfolio and tell you what skills you should improve and where to move next. We’ll also help you write a great cover letter for your dream company. You can choose a convenient feedback format – video call or correspondence via social networks.
Chat with vacancies
We post vacancies from partner companies, our graduates, and simply cool vacancies for juniors and mids in design. Don’t forget about freelance projects: in our chat you can find both your main job and part-time work.
Partner companies
We recommend talented graduates for work in partner companies, as well as for internships at YClients.
Video in your personal account
The course contains a whole section about employment: advice on which resources to look for a job and what it is better not to do when applying for a vacancy.
Introduction to Motion Design
— About motion design.
What is motion design, areas of application, what does a motion designer do.
Introduction to After Effect. Theory and practice
— Introduction to After Effect.
Installing After Effect, Media Encoder.
— Familiarity with the After Effect program interface.
Creating a composition, workspace, working presets of the After Effect program.
— Walt Disney's 12 principles.
Creating animation keys, working with easings, basic tools for creating shape animation.
Animation Illustrations
— Adobe Illustrator. Where to download/how to install.
Program installation.
— Preparing illustrations for import into After Effect.
Color space, collecting illustrations in layers, preliminary visual analysis of animation.
— Installation of scripts.
Free scripts, installation of scripts, search sites.
— Animating the Illustration. Part 1.
Creating keys for Ai files, using masks.
— Animating the Illustration. Part 2.
Organic animation, controlling the viewer's attention.
— Render in Adobe Media Encoder.
Render in: Mp4, Gif, Media Encoder, collect project.
— Puppet tool. Getting to know the tool.
What is a puppet tool and what type of puppet tool to choose for different tasks.
— Character animation using the Puppet tool.
Animating the character.
Working with masks
— Standard masks.
A mask as a stencil, which mask should be used and when, various effects.
— Feather mask.
Embedding animation in photos, using a pen, working with bezier curves, Corner pin effect.
— Adobe Photoshop. Part 1.
Installing/downloading Photoshop.
— Adobe Photoshop. Part 2.
Getting to know the Photoshop interface.
— Adobe Photoshop. Part 3.
Setting up a mock up in Photoshop.
— Mask in Mock Up.
Embedding animation into a mockup.
Animation of interfaces and presentations
- Google Material Motion Guides. Part 1.
Analysis of Google motion guides.
- Google Material Motion Guides. Part 2.
Continuation of analysis of Google motion guides.
— Search for ready-made interfaces or references.
Download the finished interface and import the file into Figma.
— Import of ready-made interfaces into Figma.
We import the necessary files, create a project from several presets, cases of file loss, clearing the cache, grouping the necessary elements, distributing components into folders.
— Animating the interface.
Animation of the prepared project skeleton.
— Creation of titles.
Searching for stock videos, creating titles for presentations
video.
Trim Path
— Line animation.
What is this tool and how to use it.
— Create the text source in Adobe Illustrator.
-Creating a composition with text elements in Adobe Illustrator, importing the composition into After Effect.
— TrimPath animation.
Making an outro showreel.
Working with kinetic typography
— Working with text kinematics.
Creating a camera, working in 3D space, creating a greeting.
— Text animation. Part 1.
Basic effects and methods of text animation.
— Text animation. Part 2.
3D modeling and text animation, Distort and Perspective effects.
Expressions, Transitions, Keying, Tracking
— What are Expressions and where is it used?
Introduction to programming in After Effect.
— Making a time counter.
Create a time counter animation.
— What is keying and in what areas is motion used?
Trimming and embedding video footage shot on a green background.
— Introduction to trekking.
Familiarization with the tool, practice working with 3D tracking.
— Tracking to the point.
Familiarization with the tool, practice working with tracking to one point.
— What is Transitions and where is it used?
What is Transition, basic types of assembly gluing.
— Custom transitions.
We create custom transitions using basic program effects.
Working with graphs of speeds and values
— Speed graph.
How to adjust the speed of entry/exit into/out of the scene.
— Graph of values.
How to properly animate compression or stretching.
Installation
— Rough editing. Metronome.
Creation of rough editing, metronome, cutting of finished animation under the metronome.
— Rough editing. Voice acting.
Searching for stock music, adding music to a rough cut.
— Rough editing. Glues.
Colors, mood and consumer congruence.
Plugins
— Video Copilot. Introduction.
Introduction to the company, Andrew Kramer, element 3D.
— Video Copilot. Element 3D. Interface Animation.
Familiarization with the plugin interface, working with 3D models and materials.
— Element 3D. Kinetic typography.
Kinetic typography, animated texture.
Working with sound
—Adobe Auditon. Introduction.
Software installation, familiarization with the Adobe Audition program interface.
— Search and selection of sounds for showreel.
Search for high-quality sounds from stock sites, import downloaded files into the created project"
— Overlay sounds under the video.
Create separate tracks for sounds and background music.
— Mixing music and sounds. Render the audio track.
Mixing sounds and the main audio track.
Final Render
— Render and final viewing of the showreel.
Overlaying the finished audio track onto the showreel, mixing audio and video.
Employment and freelancing
— Freelancing. Features of the work. Teamwork.
— Cover letters and resumes.