Animate your own motion graphic

Animating Motion Graphics: The Basics

Process and Prepping Files

Prep your files
Prep your files and block out your animation based on lecture 2

Thinking in Time

fine tune your animation
take the blocked out project and use the graph editor to make the timing on your animation exactly how you want. Delivery date is up to you, but if you get it done by this date you will be in the running for having your work in my recorded critique.

Additional Resources

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Check out some motioan graphic examples, blogs and my archive of favorites here.

AFTER EFFECTS BASICS

If you're unfamiliar with After Effects, use these tutorials to get all caught up. While there is a tutorial part of my class, there just isn't enough time to cover all the basics. I highly suggest you watch these tutorials before you start lecture 2. (Ignore any 'preset effects' PLEASE!! no lens flares allowed.)
Download the City and Flower jpegs here if you want to use these images.
Here is the project file for the promo gif I made. Check this out after you have gone through all the lectures.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2475020/skillshare/SS_promo.zip

DISCLAIMER: this is a bit more advanced, it uses a lot of precomps, shape layers, and track mattes. I didn't have time to go over all of this stuff, but hopefully by messing around with it you can learn some new techniques.