Tag Archive for: Video/Motion

Serious Animation for Seriously Fun Presentations

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In this session, Jole Simmons shows how animation can be bold, polished, and genuinely fun when it’s used with intention. You’ll see how motion in PowerPoint can guide attention, control pacing, and add clarity and personality to your slides—without feeling gimmicky or overdone.

Expect a fast-moving, design-first session filled with playful experimentation and “wait… that’s PowerPoint?” moments. Jole treats animation as a creative tool for storytelling, not decoration, showing how small, thoughtful moves can make a big impact.

You’ll leave inspired to push PowerPoint further, experiment with confidence, and create slides that feel polished, engaging, and seriously fun.

Key takeaways:

  • Turn ordinary slides into memorable moments with smart motion choices
  • Add polish and playfulness without crossing into “too much”
  • Have more fun building slides—and make it obvious to your audience

No Fear Premiere for Designers

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Design no longer lives in a static world. Motion shows up everywhere—from brand systems and websites to social media and marketing. In this beginner-friendly session, Amanda Dalton shows how video editing fits squarely within a designer’s skill set. Learn how familiar design principles like hierarchy and visual flow translate directly into Adobe Premiere. Learn how to approach video with a design-first mindset that feels intuitive and achievable.

Amanda focuses on practical workflows and essential tools that help you get started quickly and confidently. With her energetic, approachable teaching style, Premiere becomes a creative space you’ll enjoy exploring. You’ll leave ready to bring motion into your design work with clarity and confidence.

You will learn how to:

  • Navigate the Premiere interface
  • Work confidently with the timeline, tracks, and clips
  • Add keyframes to control motion, opacity, and basic animation
  • Build a practical workflow for assembling and refining short videos

After Effects for Graphic Designers

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After Effects isn’t just for video pros, and it doesn’t have to feel intimidating. With a small set of core concepts, designers can create simple, effective motion that enhances everyday design work.

Learn how to get things moving quickly using familiar assets from Photoshop and Illustrator. Build practical motion skills that deliver immediate results, from adding impact to social content to bringing static layouts to life. Introduce motion into existing design workflows without overcomplicating the process.

This session is for designers who want to add motion to their skill set without changing how they work. You’ll leave with confidence and a clear understanding of how After Effects fits naturally into a design-first workflow.

You will learn:

  • That After Effects is not as scary as you always thought
  • How to quickly create animations with keyframes
  • How to import your Photoshop and Illustrator assets and animate them
  • How to do the cool stuff with video, like tracking motion and cameras
  • How to export your animations

Cinematic Presentations: Creating Dynamic, Immersive Content

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The best presentations make a lasting impression on your audience and change their behavior. To do that, you need to engage, inspire, and motivate. PowerPoint offers some terrific techniques to do just that.

In this session, you’ll see how to create dynamic and immersive content, suitable for viewing anywhere from a small laptop to a huge ballroom. You’ll see how to deliver mesmerizing experiences for your audience by coordinating with presenters, camera teams, and graphic ops. Pick and choose the techniques to apply to your own content and adapt them to your brand.

All roads lead to PowerPoint, but where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

Key takeaways:

  • Transform your slides with techniques for dynamic and immersive content delivery
  • Think outside the slide to create unique effects
  • Incorporate external elements such as cameras and staging into the presentation

You’ve Got This: Designer’s Easy Guide to Motion

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Knowing how to work with motion is quickly becoming a must for every designer. Thankfully, it’s not as difficult as you think! Emmy-winning motion designer Kyle Hamrick is passionate about guiding beginners through their first steps into this exciting and rapidly-growing corner of the design world. By the end of this session, you’ll be armed with a variety of accessible techniques for bringing designs to life through the magic of motion, across multiple Adobe apps.

You will learn:

  • How to leverage your existing design skills while adding time and movement
  • Techniques for structuring your design files for animation
  • Approachable techniques to animate designs in Express, Photoshop and After Effects
  • How to easily customize existing animations using Motion Graphics Templates (aka “MOGRTs”) in Premiere

Step by Step: Building an Animated Brand System

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Designing motion for a brand is rarely a straight line. It’s a collaborative process shaped by creative interpretation, iteration, and feedback. In this session, Chris Converse shares an inside look at how CreativePro’s video bumpers were developed and refined into a cohesive motion brand system using Illustrator and After Effects. This session blends a real-world case study with practical techniques, offering a clear view into the full creative process.

Key takeaways:

  • Translate static brand assets into a flexible motion system
  • Structure Illustrator files for efficient animation in After Effects
  • Make creative decisions that balance brand rules with motion design goals
  • Build a repeatable workflow you can adapt to your own brand projects