AIGA San Francisco continues its series of evening events that focus on interactive design topics. Intended for designers with beginning to intermediate experience with designing and building for the web, tablet and mobile environments, each event will give you the chance to learn from local experts as well as share your own knowledge with other attendees.

The sessions will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and workshop activities, so bring your sketch pads and thinking caps.

What are the essential principles of solid motion design? In what ways can motion be used to enhance storytelling or sell an idea? Where do transitions come into play? How can you bring your own designs to life? Where to start?

Join Justin Katz as he discusses best practices that drive effective motion design – the basics and BEYOND! Justin will cover conception to completion so that you can be prepared when working with motion and motion designers. He’ll take you through how he plans an animation — from scripting, thumbnails, storyboarding, style frames, animatics, rough cuts, audio, animation, editing and color correction.

Get the kick start you need to experiment with the art form yourself. If you’re just getting into motion or even already have a working skill set, you don’t want to miss this inpiring event.

About Justin Katz
Justin Katz, of Flock of Pixels, is an Emmy award winning motion design director and animator. Justin has been bringing notable brands and causes to life since 2004, with work spanning across corporate identity (most recently Canon’s new Cinema EOS), broadcast commercials (Fiesta Bowl, Jet Blue, Goodwill, Massage Envy), web advertising (Sylvan Learning, iGo, Cold Stone Creamery), corporate video (Coca-Cola, Insight, Del Monte), and film & conference titles (AIGA, Brand New Conference).

If you need special assistance to participate in this program, please contact AIGA SF at aiga@aigasf.org or 415-626-6008. For reasonable assistance accommodations to be provided, please RSVP for the event and notify us at least five business days in advance. If we do not receive timely notification of your reasonable request, we may not be able to make the necessary arrangements by the time of the event.
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5 Comments

On 25 Jan 2012 @ 3:03pm, 3:03pm Ivan Liberato wrote:

I would like to get a little more in depth information about the topics that are going to be covered and also about what kind of activities will attendees be working on?
Thank you very much

Ivan Liberato | Designer | Duarte Design Inc.

On 25 Jan 2012 @ 3:03pm, 3:03pm Ivan Liberato wrote:

I would like to get a little more in depth information about the topics that are going to be covered and also about what kind of activities will attendees be working on?
Thank you very much

Ivan Liberato | Designer | Duarte Design Inc.

On 2 Feb 2012 @ 3:25pm, 3:25pm Dawn Zidonis, Executive Director, AIGA San Francisco wrote:

Hello Ivan,

We’re still working out the details of this event with Justin Katz but it will be a mixture of a presentation, discussion with the audience, and various activities decided by our guest speaker. It really is an interactive event where the attendee’s participate!
We’ll contact Justin and see if he has any additional details for you.

Hope we’ll see you there! Make sure you rsvp ahead of time, this event usually sells out!

On 9 Feb 2012 @ 12:57pm, 12:57pm Jenna Hubert wrote:

Is there any way there could be a screen cast of this session? I know of a few AIGA Reno Tahoe members who would love to attend but we can’t make the drive in time.

On 10 Feb 2012 @ 2:49pm, 2:49pm Dawn Zidonis wrote:

Hey Jenna,

Too bad, we’d love to see our AIGA Reno peeps!

We’ve been tossing around a few ideas involving video for events in general. We’ll let you know if any videos become available in the future!