Learn the secrets of the workflow of one of the world’s best motion designers. Fluid animation, unexpected transitions, superb character animation tips and tricks, and a lot of source files to dig in.
What is this course about?
If you love motion design and don’t live on another planet, there is a good chance that you know Emanuele Colombo’s work. Fluid movements, superb character animation, unexpected transitions, groundbreaking animation techniques and a strong sense of storytelling are some of the traits that made Emanuele one of the giants of the community, and many of his works are real milestones of motion design history.
In this course, Emanuele will show us what’s behind his unique style.
Starting from a quick overview of the principles of animation, you will move on to discover some of his tips and tricks to immediately speed up your workflow, improve the fluidity of your animations and the quality of your character animation, and to create spectacular transitions. You will learn how to come up with original ideas that will make your work unique and to improve the storytelling of your videos.
Anyone can be cool
You might think that most of the amazing animations you see on your feed are created using advanced techniques. But the truth is that any animation can be broken down into a few basic actions. In this course we will explore how some simple tricks, when added to each other, can drastically increase the quality of your animations.
Step up your skills
Emanuele is well known in the community for his particular style of classy movements, catchy character animation and unexpected transitions. Once we explore some cool animation tricks in the first part of this course, we will study how to apply them to different situations, increasing the complexity with every step.
Impress the Internet
What makes the difference between a good animation and a loop you just can’t take your eyes off? We will spend some time going through some sweet animations that conquered the Internet and we will try to identify some of the traits they share, applying those same principles to our animations.
