A Complete Guide to Creating Animated Information Graphics

A Complete Guide to Creating Animated Information Graphics, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.45, with 17 lectures, based on 30 reviews, and has 276 subscribers.

You will learn about plan and design an animated information graphic project model, animate, and render in 3D explore data in 3D This course is ideal for individuals who are designers or journalists or visual storytellers or interested in 3D or interested in data It is particularly useful for designers or journalists or visual storytellers or interested in 3D or interested in data.

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Summary

Title: A Complete Guide to Creating Animated Information Graphics

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.45

Number of Lectures: 17

Number of Published Lectures: 17

Number of Curriculum Items: 17

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 17

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

plan and design an animated information graphic project
model, animate, and render in 3D
explore data in 3D

Who Should Attend

designers
journalists
visual storytellers
interested in 3D
interested in data

Target Audiences

designers
journalists
visual storytellers
interested in 3D
interested in data

This is a two part class.

In part 1 you’ll learn how to create information graphics that use data and reveal stories through animation. You’ll learn how to go from data/reporting to an engaging and animated information graphic.

What you will learn

An overview of the approach to starting with a set of data and assets
Figuring out the story and whats important or interesting about the data
Creating a hierarchy of interesting elements and an organizational scheme
Writing a script
Creating the final storyboard

We’ll also cover things like best practices and some tips to keep in mind as you work on your project.

What you will make

Students will make a storyboard for an animated information graphic.

In part 2you will get started on how to model, render, animate, and visualize data using the power of 3-dimensional design, and give a foundational overview of the 3D software package, Autodesk Maya. Graham has been using this software to create a wide variety of information design projects at The New York Times, and will relate these skills to work created in the journalism environment and beyond.

What you will learn

The Maya interface

How to model in 3D

How to animate in 3D

How to render in 3D

How to use data in 3D

What you will make

Students will model, render, and animate a simple thermos as a way to learn the fundamentals.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR

This class is for anyone interested in data, information graphics, animation, and visual storytelling. If you are a designer, journalist, animator or simply interested in how this kind of work comes together, this class is for you!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Using data and motion to reveal the story

Lecture 1: An Introduction: using data and motion to reveal the story

Lecture 2: Find the Story

Lecture 3: Report the Story

Lecture 4: Separate the signal from the noise

Lecture 5: Collect data and assets

Lecture 6: Create a hierarchy

Lecture 7: Write a script

Lecture 8: Create a storyboard

Chapter 2: Creating and animating with Maya 3D

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Interface overview

Lecture 3: Basic Modeling

Lecture 4: Model a thermos

Lecture 5: Basic Animation

Lecture 6: Animating the thermos

Lecture 7: Basic Rendering

Lecture 8: Rendering the thermos

Lecture 9: Data in 3D

Instructors

Graham Roberts
Senior Graphics Editor at The New York Times

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 1 votes
2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 6 votes
4 stars: 15 votes
5 stars: 5 votes

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