Keyframe Workshops

I have been developing workshops for first year students to learn about animating the layer properties in After Effects using keyframes. Initially my reference for the project was the Animade Lernz series, using a character like the one I created a few years ago for the teaching work I was doing at Ravensbourne at the time:

And then I came across this clip from a student on the Digital Communication Design course at Epsom and loved it. The pace and feel of the first part of the clip is a great example of what can be done using editing and basic motion in After Effects.


Untitled from Digital Communication Design on Vimeo.

Art School (propositions for the 21st Century)

I picked up this book in the library and have been flicking through it over Christmas. One text in particular really stood out, a piece of writing by Liam Gillick and his students at Columbia University. It is a proposal for an art school, or an idea about an art school. I love the way it is written, as well as the ideas. I have been thinking about it in relation to my film proposal. All the things that surround creative practice and allow it to happen, and wondering if the proposal could be written in this way.

  

The History of Motion Graphics

I've just got hold of a copy of this book (three copies in fact, via the library at work) and am really excited about getting stuck into it. It's one the first, or only histories of motion graphics. An academic text focusing on and around the history of film and experimentation, rather than an account of broadcast design for television.

It's american, written by a practioner and academic called Michael Betancourt

I am going to introduce my new lecture series in the new year with the book. And follow it with a viewing of the short film below, by Motion + Design a really interesting project based in France.


"Motion Plus Design" Center : "What is Motion Design ?" from Motion Plus Design on Vimeo.

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