Motion Graphics Websites

Examples and interviews

• Art of the Title
• Forget the Film, Watch the Titles
• Motiongrapher

General, Help, Tutorials etc.

• School of Motion

My Pinterest Board with examples

• Motion Board

Motion Graphics Articles

• Essential Motion Design Dictionary

Motion Graphics Books

• Motion Graphic Design: Applied History and Aesthetics (3rd edition), 2013

After Effects manual/reference

• After Effects User Guide

After Effects Online Tutorial (Adobe)

Current Tutorials Overview

• All Current Tutorials

After Effects Workspace:

• Basic workflow and terminology

Essential tasks:

• Create your first project
• Import files from Photoshop/Illustrator
• Use the digital asset manager
• Build compositions with layers
• Transform layers
• Keyframe animation
• Finish your project
• Use the Render Queue to export files

More After Effects Tutorials

• AE Tutorials

After Effects Online Tutorial (LinkedIn Learning)

Click this link https://www.linkedin.com/learning and login to you free IN LEARNING account using your UIC credentials

• After Effects CC2023 Essential Training: Motion Graphics
• After Effects CC2022 Essential Training: The Basics
• After Effects CC2022 Essential Training: Motion Graphics

Helpful Youtube Tutorials

• Kinetic Typography tutorials
• Camera in AE (short, moving/controlling, depth of field/aperture...)
• Camera in AE (recommended: general intro, more in-depth)
• Simplified camera control with the HANDYCAM plugin ($39). Purchase Link
• Masking methods in AE

Type/Fonts in General (anatomy, choices, kerning, text blocks, foreign type...)

https://fonts.google.com/knowledge

For the title sequence: Movie Lists

A good resource for critically acclaimed films is KANOPY. And It's free for student

You may also check out the movie list from the Criterion Collection, a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling "important classic and contemporary films". All those films are possible as well and may not be listed below.

Music and Sound Effects

1. Youtube Audio Library: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary
– free music and sound effects
– well organized, search option
– simple navigation, no adds


2. Freeplay Music: https://freeplaymusic.com
– good quality music
– not free but only $1 per song for personal use, VIMEO


3. Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org
– Good for music
– free, no registration required
– not that well organized, finding the right sound could take a while


4. Zapsplat: https://www.zapsplat.com
– good for sound effects
– free but registration is needed


5. SoundsCrate: https://sfx.productioncrate.com
– limited access for free but good quality
– registration needed


6. Orange Free Sounds:http://www.orangefreesounds.com
– free but a bit confusing in regards to user interface/navigation (lots of ads, uncessary images everywhere...)
– better for sound effects than music


7. PacDV: https://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
– simple, but clumsy navigation (music link is under Sound Effects, for example)
– the examples I hear are very generic
– better for sound effects