Course description
Motion Graphics (Evening - 12 weeks)
Shake up your designs with #Mograph, a skill widely used in the creative industries.
Motion Graphics is a versatile skill in the creative industries, that can be applied to a range of sectors such as such as graphic design, advertising, animation, broadcasting, multimedia, games or film.
Our course is designed to teach the fundamentals of Motion Graphics, combining graphic design and audiovisuals to create a variety of media. You'll get hands on with the industry standard software Adobe After Effects working on weekly projects such as typography and basic character animation to develop your skills.
As with all of our courses, you'll be hands-on as well as learning soft skills such as pitching, briefing and team work as you’ll require in the workplace. You'll apply your skills to practical projects and be led by an experienced tutor.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Aged 18 or over, a good understanding of written and spoken English.
Training Course Content
Week 1: Introduction to Motion Graphics
- History
- What is Motion Graphics, what do we all love about it and aspire to create?
- Types of Animation and basic frame by frame
- Introduction to the Adobe Suite and Cinema 4D (C4D)
- Briefing, Concept, Mood board, Story board & Style Frame
Project - Simple Loop Animation - GIF
Week 2 and 3: The Basics
- Homework feedback
- The basic principles of animation
- Introduction to After Effects and Adobe suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge)
- Introduction to C4D
- Integrating After Effects and C4D
Project - Open Title / promo
Week 4: Typography Basics
- Homework Feedback
- How to use and animate typography on your project
- Focusing your ideas, looking further
- Integrating After Effects and C4D and more
Project - Open Title
Week 5 and 6: Basic Character Animation
- Homework Feedback
- Character Design in Illustrator/Photoshop
- Character Rig in After Effects
- Character Animation
Project - Character Animation
Week 7: Briefing and Pitching Idea
- Prepare your ideal project
- Deciding your direction, moodboards, storyboards
- Big review of all we’ve learnt so far
- Thinking about sound
- The art of pitching
Project - Storyboard and Animatics for your ideal project
Week 8 and 9: Mixed Media
- Homework Feedback
- Using and manipulating images for animation
- Creating and using Textures
- Using Footage
- Compositing
- Refining and pitching your idea
Project - TV Ident
Week 10: Details and More Details
- Mastering your Ident
- How to push it further, make more with what you have
- Professional delivery
Project - Beyond the TV Ident
Week 11: Team Work
- Your strength
- Deadline
- Working Under Presure
- Team Player
Project - Beyond Escape Studios animation set
Week 12: Portfolio Building and Marketing Your Work
- Work feedback
- Making more with what you have
- Presentation
- Showreel
- Where and How to get a job
Project - Build Portfolio and Marketing
Top 10 Awards
Top 5 Winner - 2022
We're delighted to announce that Escape Studios is a winner of our Top 5 Evening Classes of 2022 award.
Each year, we select the top 10 most popular courses on our site in some of the most popular categories to make it easier for our users to find the right course for them - so you can book with confidence.
Course delivery details
Mode of study: Evening (Part time) Tue and Thur 7pm - 10pm
Why choose Escape Studios
Top 6% of Institutions for Graduate Employability -- by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
First Unreal Authorised Training Center in the UK
Expenses
Tuition fees: £1,995
Continuing Studies
Our students go on to work in many areas of the industry as highly creative professionals. Motion Graphics artists can work in a variety of companies, from film production to advertising or marketing agencies as well as for small creative studios or start ups. In the film industry, you can work doing film titles, UI design, special sequences or VFX. You can be an in-house motion designer or a freelancer, the motion graphics industry is growing rapidly and studios will always be on the lookout for talented mograph artists.
- Motion Graphics Designer
- UI Design
- Digital Media Designer