Level Up Your Typography: Creating Animated Stickers in After Effects

Looking to make your typography pop? Learn how to create eye-catching animated stickers in Adobe After Effects!

Elevate your graphic design and motion design skills and captivate your audience on social media. This course, led by French graphic designer, motion designer, and illustrator Manon Louart, will teach you simple animation techniques to bring character and dynamism to your text animations.

In this comprehensive class, you'll master:

• Creating engaging writing animations: Transform static text into captivating visuals.
• Text echo animations: Add a playful and dynamic effect to your typography.
• Text distortion animations: Explore three different methods to warp and manipulate text.
• Animating dust and grain textures: Enhance your typography with subtle, atmospheric effects.
• Applying techniques to secondary animated elements: Expand your animation capabilities beyond just text.
• Leveraging Expressions: Speed up your workflow and automate repetitive tasks.
• Exporting for the web: Prepare your animations for seamless online use.

We'll start with foundational concepts and short animation exercises, building your confidence before tackling a full project. I'll guide you through my entire creative process – from initial sketching and typeface selection to animation and final export.

The final project? A polished 4-second looping video of animated typographic stickers!

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for:

• Creators with a basic understanding of After Effects.
• Intermediate motion designers seeking new animation techniques.
• Graphic designers wanting to add visual flair to their typographic designs.

Ready to unlock the power of animated typography? I can't wait to see your creations! Share your final projects in the Class Project Section. Let's begin!