Motion Graphics short course

Using industry standard 2D motion graphic creation tools and techniques students will learn to create content for use across multiple disciplines to a professional standard.

Topics include:  

• Font (Typography)  

• Layers and cameras  

• Critical thinking in motion design  

• Animating typefaces  

• Alpha and luma mattes  

• Puppet pin tool and rigging  

• Interpreting client briefs  

• 12 principles of animation  

• Generating ideas in motion design  

• Isometric animation  

• Project workflow, timings and organisation  

• Expressions  

• Camera tracking, compositing and rotoscoping 

• Time displacement for kinetic typography  

• Time remapping and posterising

• Mixed media techniques and collage style 

Project: Motion Graphics animation based on a pop culture icon that students will choose (such as a painting, a brand, a movie…), to create a short commercial, trailer, title sequence or corporate video based on it. 

Using industry standard concept creation tools and techniques students will create 3D and 2D art for use across multiple disciplines to a professional standard.

Topics include:

• 3D Composition  

• Animating a simple scene using keyframing, looping and dynamics  

• Cloners and generators and how to use them  

• Controlling effectors and other objects using fields  

• Using primitives, generators and deformers to model basic shapes  

• Edit mode  

• Manipulating points, edges and polys to edit and sculpt polygonal geometry  

• PBR, material types, reflectance channel  

• Megascans, bricks material, displacement  

• Applying materials to prims and meshes with UV wrapping  

• Rendering tests and adjust render settings  

• Main light types, HDRI, 3-point studio lighting 

• Common tricks like flags and gobos 

• Adding camera animation 

• Compositing rendered animation 

• Track mattes 

• Grading, FX and colour correction 

Project: Motion Graphics animation where students will use a combination of live-action footage and Motion Graphics elements to create a short commercial or corporate video, including the animation of a logo.

Using industry standard content creation tools and techniques students will create 3D and 2D art for use in a real-time pipeline to a professional standard.

Topics include:

• Efficient 3D modelling
• Lighting in Game Engine
• Optimisation and best practice
• Advanced Modelling
• Sculpting
• Asset Prep and Processing
• Baking for texturing and materials
• Procedural and PBS workflows
• Advanced Materials and textures
• Advanced Lighting
• Environment systems
• Rendering effects.

Project: Motion Graphics animation in 3D, where students will use all the tools learned throughout the course to create a short commercial, a short music video or some abstract animation to a professional standard, that will be used in the portfolio.