Graphic Design and Animations
Translate a campaign brief into a visual and motion treatment
Graphic Design and Animations teaches visual communication fundamentals and motion principles for digital campaigns. Learners move from briefs, hierarchy, typography, storyboards, and animation timing into layered motion graphics, social variants, Lottie-aware delivery, audio rhythm, accessibility, and professional handoff.
The course uses After Effects-style concepts without locking assessment to one vendor. AI may accelerate ideation, style frames, and repetitive production, but human creative direction owns message, pacing, continuity, rights awareness, accessibility, and final approval. This is a creative production course, not software engineering.
Preparation available
This course is the preparation path for: Africoders Certified Graphic Designer and Animator
Complete the course and earn your Certificate of Completion. If you meet the certification eligibility requirements, you can apply for the professional assessment. Professional Certification requires assessment, practical work, and human review — never guaranteed by purchase alone.
What you will learn
- Translate a campaign brief into a visual and motion treatment
- Apply hierarchy, composition, typography, and colour across time
- Use timing, spacing, easing, anticipation, and follow-through intentionally
- Storyboard and validate pacing with an animatic
- Build layered motion compositions using reusable controls
- Create coherent social motion variants across aspect ratios
Course journey
How this Premium programme is structured — from foundations to practical work.
- Design Foundations for Motion
- Typography in Motion
- Core Animation Principles
- Storyboards and Animatics
- Visual Systems for Campaign Motion
- AI-Assisted Motion Ideation
- Motion Graphics Production
- Shape, Mask, and Transition Craft
- Social Motion and Campaign Formats
- Lottie and Lightweight Motion
- Audio, Rhythm, and Accessibility
- Campaign Motion Capstone Studio
Curriculum
Week 1: Design Foundations for Motion
- Communication before movement Preview 30min
- Hierarchy across time 30min
- Frames, grids, and safe zones 30min
Week 2: Typography in Motion
- Kinetic type with a reading order 30min
- Timing, easing, and type personality 30min
- Legibility, captions, and reduced motion 30min
Week 3: Core Animation Principles
- Spacing, timing, and weight 30min
- Anticipation, follow-through, and overshoot 30min
- Arcs, staging, and secondary action 30min
Week 4: Storyboards and Animatics
- From brief to motion treatment 30min
- Storyboards that communicate decisions 30min
- Animatics and timing validation 30min
Week 5: Visual Systems for Campaign Motion
- Motion language and brand behaviour 30min
- Designing reusable scene templates 30min
- Consistency across aspect ratios 30min
Week 6: AI-Assisted Motion Ideation
- AI as a motion brainstorming partner 30min
- Directing generated style frames 30min
- Continuity, provenance, and human review 30min
Week 7: Motion Graphics Production
- Layers, properties, and keyframes 32min
- Graph thinking and polished easing 32min
- Parenting, precomposing, and reusable control 32min
Week 8: Shape, Mask, and Transition Craft
- Shape layers and path animation 32min
- Masks, mattes, and controlled reveals 32min
- Transitions with motivated continuity 32min
Week 9: Social Motion and Campaign Formats
- The first seconds and message economy 32min
- Platform-safe composition 32min
- Campaign variants without brand drift 32min
Week 10: Lottie and Lightweight Motion
- What Lottie is good for 32min
- Designing within export constraints 32min
- Handoff, testing, and fallback 32min
Week 11: Audio, Rhythm, and Accessibility
- Editing motion to rhythm 32min
- Sound effects and sonic restraint 32min
- Reduced motion, captions, and safe flashes 32min
Week 12: Campaign Motion Capstone Studio
- Pre-production and approval gates 32min
- Production, review, and refinement 32min
- Delivery, rationale, and retrospective 32min
One-time Premium course purchase — unlocks this course (and Premium Builder status). Not a platform subscription. Not Professional Certification.
Premium course · ₦4,500 — affordable enough to start learning today.
Instructor: Africoders
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Africoders Professional Certification = a separate competency credential requiring assessment, practical work, and human review — not granted by Premium or course completion alone.
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