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Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design – Composition

 

In this course, learn about the most important principles of composition and how to use them in your designs.

This is a premium course on Linkedin Learning. You can find some free tutorials from this course below.

Course Introduction

It can seem as though professional artists and designers have an instinctive understanding of where to position elements on a screen. But these capabilities don’t appear out of nowhere—many designers develop these skills by studying graphic design at art college or university. The principles that are taught in these schools have been developed over centuries, and they offer a fairly foolproof set of methods.

Self-taught designers often spend too much time experimenting with the placement of elements on screens, using a trial and error approach to design that can be slow and unproductive.

Free Tutorials

Here are a few free tutorials from this course for you to enjoy.

If you’d like to see more you can sign up for a free trial here.

Course Details

Instructor Angie Taylor puts these principles in context by taking you though the development of an online advertisement, and showcasing the different techniques used throughout her workflow. 

Angie's Favorites

Angie shares her favorite tips. She demonstrates how to capture colors, patterns, and shapes using the Adobe Capture app; develop your rough ideas into layers that are ready for animating; compose design elements in After Effects; and create 3D artwork with Cinema 4D and After Effects.

All Angie’s premium courses are available here on the Linkedin Learning website.

Character Animator Training

Character Animator Training

Character animator

Traditional 2D character animation can be a laborious and time-consuming process. In this Adobe Character Animator training course I’ll share my essentials tips and techniques for making the processes involved in 2D character animation less painful.

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Character animator training course

In this one-to-one training workshop Angie shares her industry secrets with you. You’ll learn how to import layered files and paths from Illustrator into After Effects. See how easy it is to animate flat vector artwork in both 2D and 3D space, and you’ll explore options for outputting your animations.

Topics covered include:

  • Setting up After Effects for creating 2D character animation
  • Using input devices to capture motion and apply it to your characters
  • Creating animation and lip-syncing with audio files, using expressions and scripting to make the process easier
  • Applying grouping techniques and using parenting to create hierarchical animations
  • Following the best working practices for outputting your animations for the web, TV, and mobile devices.

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Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Motion Graphic Design - Composition  In this course, learn about the most important principles of composition and how to use them in your designs. This is a premium course on Linkedin Learning. You can find some free tutorials from this course...

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Character Animator Training

Character Animator Training

Character animator Traditional 2D character animation can be a laborious and time-consuming process. In this Adobe Character Animator training course I'll share my essentials tips and techniques for making the processes involved in 2D...

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Storyboards & Animatics

Storyboards & Animatics

Storyboards & AnimaticsAngie has taught her course on storyboard and animatic production at The Lighthouse in Brighton and at the University of Brighton's Digital Media MA course. She now teaches this exciting course at Creative Cabin. Adobe...

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Premiere Pro Training

Premiere Pro Training

One-to-one Premiere Pro training All Premiere Pro training courses at Creative Cabin are one-to-one courses. All courses are taught by Adobe Community Expert, Angie Taylor. Angie will customizse the training course to fit your unique workflow....

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Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.

Storyboards & Animatics

Storyboards & Animatics

Storyboards & Animatics

Angie has taught her course on storyboard and animatic production at The Lighthouse in Brighton and at the University of Brighton’s Digital Media MA course. She now teaches this exciting course at Creative Cabin.

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Software covered;

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • Adobe Audition
  • Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
  • Procreate

Topics include;

  • Learn various drawing techniques with paper, iPad or computer software
  • Tips and tricks for using stock imagery
  • Creating images with Illustrator
  • Capturing and cleaning up images with Photoshop
  • Recording voiceovers and music with Apple Garageband and Adobe Audition
  • Scriptwriting and editing with Adobe Story
  • Pacing a story win Premiere Pro with markers
  • Adding basic animation with Premiere Pro
  • Adding visual affects and advanced animation with After Effects

45min.

Premiere Pro Training

Premiere Pro Training

One-to-one Premiere Pro training

All Premiere Pro training courses at Creative Cabin are one-to-one courses. All courses are taught by Adobe Community Expert, Angie Taylor.

Angie will customizse the training course to fit your unique workflow. There’s just you and Angie at the desk. You can go at your own speed and ask questions whenever you want.

All courses are bespoke and can be customised to fit your own needs.

Your Instructor

Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years. You can see examples of Angie’s work here on her portfolio.

Angie was also was employed by Adobe’s as their senior demo artist for video products for many years. She toured the world, speaking at trade shows and conferences on behalf of Adobe and Apple.

Angie is a published author with five books on motion graphic design. She also has several video training courses. These are available on LinkedIn Learning & Lynda.com. Angie also has several tutorials featured on Adobe TV.

In 2014 Angie moved to the south coast to set up her own private art school – Creative Cabin. At the cabin, Angie provides one-to-one bespoke training in several creative software applications.

Angie’s passionate about creative training. She loves to inspire designers and artists with new ideas and techniques. You can read some reviews of Angie’s training here on Google or Facebook.

If you cant get to Creative Cabin that’s no proble. Angie can offer you onsite training. She also offers remote training.

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Premiere Pro training

Here’s a selection of topics typically covered on a Premiere Pro course. Each course at Creative Cabin is bespoke. Once you confirm your booking, a training needs analysis survey will be sent to you. You can fill this in with all of your training requirements. We will then create a bespoke course, just for you. Choose from the list below or create your own list of topics to cover.

  • Adobe Workflow (with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects etc)
  • Configuring Your Editor for optimal workflow
  • Setting Up a Project
  • Importing Media
  • Organizing Media
  • Essential Editing Skills
  • Timeline Operations (time remapping etc)
  • Trimming tools
  • Audio Mixing and Repair
  • Color Correction and Grading
  • Effects and Transitions
  • Color grading
  • Creating Titles
  • Captioning
  • Publishing Your Video
  • Multicam Editing
  • DSLR Workflow
  • Moving from Final Cut Pro
  • Moving from Avid Media Composer

    Training Location

    The Creative Cabin is situated to the east of Brighton on the cliff-tops, overlooking the English Channel. It’s a beautiful and inspiring place to learn about your favourite software applications.