Create brilliant titles, transitions, effects, and more with Motion 5, the motion graphics companion to Final Cut Pro X. This three-day, hands-on course starts with motion graphics fundamentals and moves into compositing, animation, and the world of 3D. Explore new intelligent templates to quickly and flexibly create high-quality effects, titles, transitions, and generators as well as create rigs to adjust related parameters with a single control.
Who Should Attend: This class is designed for students who are looking to learn more about creating motion graphics using Motion and who prefer hands-on, interactive instruction.
What You Will Learn:
- Creating Smart Motion Templates and publishing them to Final Cut Pro X
- Creating parameter rigs to quickly adjust related parameters with a single control
- Understanding behavior-based animation
- Using keyframes to create animation
- Creating content with Generators, shapes and paint strokes.
- Stabilizing and tracking media
- Animating cameras and using advanced 3D features.
Course OutlineNote: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.
Lesson 1: The Basics of Illustrator Objects
- Overview of object types (i.e. Flare & Graph)
- Advanced understanding of Illustrator Objects
- Using your layer panel for objects
- Converting one object into another object -When to expand
Lesson 2: Rethinking Construction- The Eraser Tools & the Blob Brush
- Working with the Live Paint
- Using Image Trace
- Aligning, Joining and Averaging
- Draw Behind and Draw Inside
- Compound Shapes & Compound Paths
- Live Shapes and Path Editing
- Pen Tool & Reshaping Paths
- New Pencil Settings (for other tools)
- Rapid Reshaping with Shape Builder
- Building with Multiple Construction Modes
Lesson 3: Symbols (1/2 Lesson)- Starting the lesson
- Working with symbols
- Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
- Editing a symbol
- Working with dynamic symbols
- Creating a symbol
- Duplicating symbols
- Replacing symbols
- Breaking a link to a symbol
- Working with Creative Cloud Libraries
- Adding assets to CC Libraries
- Using Library assets
- Updating a Library asset
Lesson 4: Perspective Grid (1/2 Lesson)- Working with the perspective grid
- Using a preset grid
- Adjusting the perspective grid
- Drawing artwork in perspective
- Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
- Moving planes and objects together
- Drawing artwork with no active grid
- Adding and editing text in perspective
- Moving objects in a perpendicular direction
- Moving a plane to match an object
- Bringing content into perspective
- Editing symbols in perspective
- Releasing objects with perspective
Lesson 5: Espressive Strokes- Width Tool and Stroke Profiles
- Expanded Stroke Panel
- Brushes
- Raster Brushes & Auto Corners in CC
- Stroke Variance
- Brushes & Washes
- Painting Inside
- Pattern Brushes
Lesson 6: Color Transitions- Color & Swatches panels
- Global Colors
- Gradients
- Gradient Mesh
- Live Color
- Unified Gradients
- Gradient Paths
- Blending Mesh
- Transparent Mesh
- Recolor Patterns
Lesson 7: Reshaping Dimensions- Warp & Envelopes
- 3D Effects
- Perpective Grid
- Free Transform
Lesson 8: Mastering Complexity- Pattern Making
- Transparency
- Opacity Masks
- Blends
- Clipping Masks
- Combining Complexity
- Layered Patterns
Lesson 9: Combining Apps- Combining artwork
- Placing image files
- Placing an image
- Scaling a placed image
- Placing a Photoshop image with Show Import Options
- Placing multiple images
- Applying color edits to an image
- Masking images
- Applying a simple mask to an image
- Editing a clipping path (mask)
- Masking an object with text
- Creating an opacity mask
- Editing an opacity mask
- Sampling colors in placed images
- Working with image links
- Finding link information
- Embedding and unembedding images
- Replacing a linked image
- Packaging a file
Lesson 10: Exporting Assets- Illustrator to non-Adobe Programs
- Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop
- Illustrator & Adobe InDesign
- Illustrator, PDF & Adobe Acrobat
- Creating Pixel-Perfect Drawings
- Aligning new artwork to the pixel grid
- Aligning existing artwork to the pixel grid
- Exporting artboards and assets
- Exporting artboards
- Exporting individual assets
- Creating CSS from your design
- Setting up your design for generating CSS
- Working with character styles and CSS code
- Working with graphic styles and CSS code
- Copying CSS
- Exporting CSS
Lesson 11: Create Your Own- Create your own based on instructor’s directive
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
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