Overview
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Learn about the basic principles of composition for motion graphic designers, and how to apply these principles in your designs.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Course structure
- Thinking about color, contrast, line, and shape
- Color inspiration with Adobe Capture app
- Sampling colors from photographs in Adobe Illustrator
- Creating swatch groups in Adobe illustrator
- Sampling colors from outside Adobe applications
- Adding dimension with space, motion, and depth
- Using grids and guides to help with layout
- The essential principles of composition
- Gestalt theory in graphic design
- Creating vector shapes with Adobe Capture app
- Sketching roughs in Adobe Draw
- Coloring artwork in Adobe Draw
- Refining sketches in Illustrator
- Making cartoon hands from primitive shapes
- Proportional grids in Illustrator
- Illustrator layer structure for 2D animation
- Applying color via CC Libraries in Illustrator
- Composing design elements in After Effects
- When to use Cinema 4D for 2D-style animation
- Using the Cinema 4D cameras to create animation
- Giving 3D a cartoon effect with cel shaders
- Applying textures selectively with Set Selection
- Incorporating 3D objects in After Effects with the C4D Renderer
- Adding depth to 3D objects with shading
- Goodbye
