Adobe Live
Design heavyweights Adobe curate a streaming platform that enables designers worldwide to tune in and interact with industry-leading creatives. The sessions are free, high-quality, educational and delivered in real time. I'm thrilled to have presented multiple Adobe Live sessions on typography and animation.
Mixed media animations
This pair of Adobe Live sessions looks at how to create stop motion animations on a shoestring budget, using inexpensive materials and equipment. Part two then looks at layering some 2D animation sprinkles and sparkles to give it that extra oomph!
Animated piece I created to illustrate the techniques that would be covered in the second session.
This is the final mixed media animation created throughout the two Adobe Live streams.
Animating gifs
This special, four-part series looks at a variety of different ways to make animated, typographic gifs, based off a live brief from Adobe to create a suite of email headers. Part one delved into dissecting a brief with the client, and exploring stylistic options within the technical specifications. Parts two and three involved some simple animated techniques within After Effects, and part four looked at some frame-by-frame animation in Photoshop.
These are the four animated gifs that were created throughout the Adobe Live sessions, and in response to the initial brief from Adobe.
Path animation and spoonerisms
This two-part session first looked at some Illustrator shortcuts for prepping vector files to animate. It also explored how to fold layers of meaning into an artwork through concept development and movement. The second session was all about path animation in After Effects, but also covered some puppet tool techniques, and more broadly, different ways to inject anthropomorphic narrative into visuals involving letterforms.
Animation I created to illustrate the techniques that would be covered in the second session.
This is the final animated artwork created throughout the two Adobe Live streams.
Making words move
This two-part Adobe Live dived into static type, and explored things like layout and composition, experimenting with styles and establishing a typographic tone of voice, and vectoring with the pen and pencil tools in Illustrator. The second session was all about making words move, and looked at basic frame animation in Photoshop, alongside some simple vector animation techniques in After Effects.
Animated piece I created to illustrate the techniques that would be covered in the second session.
This is the final animated artwork created throughout the two Adobe Live streams.