Intro to Motion Design
Faculty
Po-Chen Chia
Freelance motion director and animator
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Overview
Motion design is a discipline that takes traditional graphic design principles and applies them to video production, through the use of animation and visual effects. From analog experimental films of the 1920s, to the computer generated media we see today, the development of motion design has always been tied to development in technology.
Motion design evolves in tangent with emerging tech - apps, digital products, augmented and virtual reality. It is an exciting field that combines those same basic animation principles with new cutting-edge technologies.
Learning highlights
- Introduce students to the fundamentals of animation and train them to think like an animator
- Students will learn to problem solve with animation and demonstrate appropriate use of visual design principles
- Students will experiment with a variety of animation techniques
- Students will examine the history of Motion Design/ Animation/ Film
- Students will document their process and be able to explain their conceptual development
Course outline
3 classes
• Intro
• A brief history of Motion Design
• Motion Design breakdown
• Animation principles
• Intro to After Effects
• Storyboarding / sketching
• Working with audio
• Documenting process
• Project 1: Color Organ
• Design for motion
• Editing techniques
• Motion History continued
• Kinetic typography
• Motion analysis
• Working with images and textures
• Workflow between After Effects and other softwares
• Project 2: Transitions
• Proper ways of critiquing animation
• Applying animation to UI / UX
• Motion History continued
• Case studies
• Different kinds of deliverables
• AE to code with Lottie
• Project 3: UI Animation
Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Po is a freelance motion director and animator based in NYC & London. He has worked with a variety of brands, studios, and agencies in the United States and abroad. Over the years, Po has solved problems through design and motion with clients such as Google, Meister, Duolingo, Squarespace, Airbnb, Buck, and others.
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Intro to Motion Design
by Po-Chen Chia
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Nov 05 - Nov 23, 2018
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
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