UXI-125: Motion Design

This course provides an introduction to motion design. Design in animation is becoming an increasingly vital tool for any designer as its impact on user experience continues to increase for marketing, brand story, understanding complex concepts, and creating emotionally captivating content. This area of study exposes students to the art of graphics that move in space and time, which can be applied to animated films, videos, animated text, and web-based apps. Students will explore how to: create storyboards that demonstrate the flow of the animation; use models to simulate the behavior of animated characters; draw images to be scanned into various computer programs; participate in the design of media campaigns; create 2D and 3D images using computer animation; and manipulation of designed assets in a studio environment. Students will gain a thorough understanding of advanced techniques as they continue to explore special effects, image compositing, and motion graphics. Students will engage in interaction design and functionality using Adobe AfterEffects.