Advanced Animation for Typographic Compositions
A course by Holke 79, Graphic Designer
Joined June 2015
Learn professional techniques to animate your creations with After Effects and Cinema 4D
Do you want to achieve spectacular results with your typographic animations? In this course, you’ll learn the key aspects to give expressive strength to your letters like you’ve never seen them before. Holke79, motion designer with over ten years of experience and clients like La Sexta, El Deseo, Movistar+, or Saffron, guides you through his expert technique.
Learn the technical and theoretical methods to push your kinetic typography skills to the next level, with Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects, creating an animated poster as a tribute to your favorite band, festival, or genre.
This is Holke79’s third course—and his most advanced—on Domestika. If you have no previous experience working with the software or type of project, we recommend taking his previous courses first:
Introduction to Motion Design and Animation Curves in After Effects and Animation for Typographic Compositions .
What will you learn in this online course?
21 lessons & 20 downloads
What's included in this course?
Meet Borja, who tells you about his career, from graphic design to specializing in motion design, and his love for music. He shows you some examples of experimental typographic design, type foundries, and some of his sources of inspiration.
Start with different animation exercises to learn the basic techniques and some tricks that you will use throughout your project, first with Adobe After Effects, and then with Cinema 4D, to experiment with all the possibilities it offers.
Work on practical exercises to animate typography in 3D using Cinema 4D. Play with gravity, create repetitions, and every type of deformation with typography. Work with an incredible online animation library to give movement to your texts.
Once you’ve learned the technique, start creating your animated typographic composition to pay tribute to your favorite artist, band, festival, or music genre. Once you’ve finished, Borja gives you some advice on how to adapt your work to different formats for social media.
When you’ve finished the course, you’ll have gone from animating typography, to experimenting while animating typography to find your own style as a motion designer.
- 99% positive reviews (239)
- 9,569 students
- 21 lessons (3h 25m)
- 20 additional resources (2 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · Italian · French · Polish · Dutch · Turkish
- Level: Intermediate
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software & tools for this course
Adobe After Effects
Cinema 4DWhat is this course's project?
Create a poster where the main title moves to the rhythm of the music you choose.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
For typography animation enthusiasts who have previous knowledge in animating typographies and want to keep exploring within After Effects and Cinema 4D to achieve stellar results.
Requirements and materials
You need basic graphic design skills and a good understanding of how Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D work.
As for materials, you will need a computer with Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects installed.
New to Adobe After Effects? In that case, we recommend taking Domestika Basics courses to learn how to use the software: Introduction to After Effects.
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Holke 79
A course by Holke 79
Borja is a graphic designer specialized in motion graphics from San Sebastián, Spain. He studied journalism at the University of San Pablo in Madrid, but he soon discovered that his passion was in graphic design. After taking courses in design and animation, he began to work as a broadcast designer for TV networks like Canal+, creating motion graphics for sports matches like El Clásico (Real Madrid versus FC Barcelona) and Copa América.
He worked as a senior motion designer for Saffron Brand Consultants in Madrid, where he helped brands build their visual identity through animation. In 2019, after over a decade of working in motion design, Borja started his own motion graphic design company, Holke 79. Some of his projects include online campaigns for Converse, Aerosmith’s Last Vegas residency, an official lyrics video for Green Day, and a number of animated graphics for TV shows.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What Will We Do in the Course?
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U2
Advanced Techniques in After Effects and Cinema 4D
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Advanced Tactics in After Effects
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Advanced Tactics in Cinema 4D
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U3
Advanced Typographic Animation Exercises in After Effects
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Sweep with delay using the Time Displacement effect
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Weirdo. Morphing and Shape Layers effects
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Autoorienting Layers Using Expressions
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Animating letters that adapt to a space
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Text Linked to a Shape
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U4
Advanced Exercises in Typographic Animation in Cinema 4D
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Replays in Cloner in Cinema 4D and Echo in After Effects
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Deformation with Spline Wrap
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Advanced Editable Text Warping
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Playing with the Laws of Physics
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The Text That Dances
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U5
The Dancing Poster
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Analysis of the Aesthetics of Musical Styles
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Previous designs of our typesetting
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Animation of My Musical Poster in Cinema 4D
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Animation of My Musical Poster in After Effects
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Tips on output formats for social media
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Real Project: Kinetic Type in Public Space
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FP
Final project
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Advanced Animation for Typographic Compositions
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FAQs
Kinetic typography is all about bringing letters and words to life with motion using digital tools. In this course, you’ll learn to craft original text animations by blending graphic design, music, and advanced visual effects using After Effects and Cinema 4D.
This is an intermediate-level course. It’s best if you have basic graphic design skills and some experience with After Effects or Cinema 4D to get the most out of it.
You’ll need access to Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, and optionally Adobe Illustrator for importing vector paths. A computer capable of handling 3D graphics and animations is recommended.
You’ll learn how to distort text, simulate physics, create clones, apply effects like Time Displacement, animate letters with expressions, and design animated typographic compositions in both 2D and 3D.
Yes, you’ll create animated posters, lo-fi fanzines, digital type specimens, and social media-ready animations that combine graphic, musical, and typographic elements.
You’ll explore how musical rhythm influences typographic movement, syncing animated text with music to create expressive and captivating results.
You’ll be able to produce kinetic typography animations for branding, posters, music videos, social media, digital fanzines, and professional portfolios, combining advanced motion design and typography techniques.
Adobe After Effects
Cinema 4D
Buen curso para aprender más efectos para texto, Gracias,
Muy buen curso :) Richtig guter Kurs
Muy buen curso :)
Explica muy bien, muy buenas clases, da buenos tips.
Le doy un 100 se aprende y se divierte