A structured online course for the future logo animation rockstar. You will learn how to animate almost any icon or logotype, morph it into everything, and tell short funny stories.
Our team enjoys logo animation as it’s always really funny. It’s a perfect chance for you to develop your own creativity, to experiment with new techniques and technologies, and a good opportunity to attract the attention of the community and potential clients to yourself (yep, that really works).
Logo animation has an extremely low cost of a mistake. If something went wrong, you can always change everything quickly and easily. It gives free rein and allows you to learn something new quickly. That is why we have decided to create this course, which is full of experiments, lifehacks, and techniques, cheating in a workflow, analyzing someone else’s works, and lots of fun.
15 lectures / 9h+
Here we will overcome the so-called Blank Page Syndrome. We will focus on how to write mini-scenarios and how to find interesting features even in the most ordinary project. And in general, we will figure out how to look at logos/icons so that you would want to animate them.
Sometimes logo animation doesn’t play the most important role in a video. It’s even easier, for you can make a couple of bucks just with a couple of clicks. You’ll learn how to create the classic “Nice and clean reveals”.
Morphing is the basis of logo and icon animation. If you want to tell cool stories, it is crucial for you to know how to naturally transform one shape into another.
Don’t underestimate the power of lines. Everything consists of them: letters, icons, and sometimes even entire illustrations. The wider your range of techniques to work with them is, the more valuable specialist you are.
There is no problem in revealing letters. However, making them lively and with their own unique character is a more complicated task.
Now when you’ve learned the dynamics, felt the rhythm of reveals, and learned how to emphasize various aspects, we’ll move from simple to really complex calligraphic logos.
In this lesson, we’ll cover the basics of creating glitch animations. We won’t deal with those glitches created by old TV sets, but with the ones that meet all modern trends and have cool dynamics, textures, and creative presentation.
In this lesson, we’ll demonstrate to you how to experiment with animation styles and how to use already familiar techniques for completely different purposes, for example, combining glitch techniques with bright shape-based design.
Now, when you understand the rules of the game, let’s play around with effects on a whole new level. This is a lesson on how to add a pinch of cyberpunk to any design.
It isn’t necessary for you to be able to draw in order to animate the movement of a liquid, we will show you how to get this effect without taking your hands off After Effects.
Here is another cheap way to make any animation cooler. Even if your logo doesn’t have a drop of liquid at all, it isn’t a big deal since you can use all this knowledge to enhance your animation 10-fold.
Some logos or icons often have branded characters, so it would be silly not to take advantage of this.
Sometimes you need to put animation into a specific environment i.e. on a website, into a mobile application, or a messenger. There are a lot of limitations and specifics related to this. In this final lesson, we will talk about how to deal with each of them.
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Yes, I found the courses extremely helpful and well put together. I was researching online tutorials for my colleagues who are just beginning to learn AE and was testing out a MDS course to see if I could recommend it. I ended up learning a lot myself 🙂
The Science of Character course was extremely helpful. It was easy to follow and the lessons were top notch. Your team produces high quality learning experiences that I haven’t found in other places when it comes to motion graphics. Keep up the great work!
I’ve watched some of the shorter classes and have loved them! The teaching style is fantastic and engaging ? I’ve also enjoyed seeing everyone’s work in the FB groups. Everyone seems to be excited to give helpful feedback and encouragement! I recommend your classes to my coworkers and friends all the time (am a full time sr. designer).
Great classes and I’m happy that invested in them. I definitely learned a lot of new ways of working that made me faster and better at my job.
I work for Accenture and animated videos are on a daily basis. Our clients loved the few effects that I was able to learn at the course. Also, I still go back to the lessons and find something new to learn.
The lessons are great. You get what you’re looking for and a little more.
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