Want to learn to communicate through your creativity? Discover the secrets of visual language and the power it has to transmit ideas alongside illustrator and designer Daniel Roldán. Train your imagination and find your own work method through playing with everything around you. In this course, learn how to manifest your ideas and discover concepts to unlock your mind and make it more flexible. Experiment with materials, patches of color, cuttings, and the meaning of shapes to conceptualize everything you want to express.

The objects we use throughout our day to day have the power to create a more enjoyable experience every time we use them. It’s the coffee mug you use in the morning, the vase for your flowers, or the pot that keeps your tea warm. Now, imagine making your own original ceramic object, without leaving the house. If you’ve visualized it, Lilly can help you materialize it in this course. With over ten years of experience creating bespoke objects for her brand Mäe Ceramics, she shows you her easy-to-follow method for creating your own ceramic vessel. Learn how to mold clay, use the tools, create your unique design, and build your object. Discover the firing process, how to use glaze to enhance your work, and decorate your home with handmade ceramic objects. Are you ready to discover the meditative art of ceramics?

Award-winning studio Muka Design Lab, Lucas and Laxmi design furniture and mass consumption products that are thought and created for their end-user. They believe in slow design and collaborate on artisanal projects with local craftsmen and workshops. Their work has been highlighted in AD Architectural Design, Fast Company, Archi Expo, Deezen, and El País. In this course, Muka Design Lab teach you how to design your first ergonomic wooden chair, from start to finish: from the first ideas to the creation of your first prototype in human scale. Learn slow design techniques to apply to your fully functional and sustainable design.

If you love simulations, animation, and lettering and would like to take a step into the world of 3D, start creating with Erich Gordon and X-Particles, the powerful plugin for Cinema 4D. As an art director, Erich’s projects for typography and digital lettering have been awarded by the Latin American Design Awards, receiving gold (2018) and bronze (2019) in the Typography category. In this course, Erich teaches you to conceptualize and define an idea to start creating your own 3D lettering. Learn to use the right typography and how to customize individual shapes, using X-Particles to create letters and build a word.

Creating visually stunning editorial content has never been easier with the help of design experts Alex Reece and Isabella Bunnell. The pair are cofounders of the renowned Friendhood Studio in Scotland, and their focus is to define their client’s purpose when crafting editorial work. Dive into the editorial world and bring your own designs to life. Learn how to analyze a brief and define the visual identity of your work. Explore InDesign and discover how to create a striking editorial piece.

Learn to combine traditional techniques and digital retouching with Photoshop In this course, illustrator and artist Ana Santos will teach you the technique she uses to create her wonderful illustrated watercolor portraits, step by step. Ana enjoys the immediacy of watercolors, the spontaneity of results, and how easy it is to mix it with other materials or for mixed techniques. In this course, discover her methodology, both analog and digital, which she usually combines in her compositions. Using a photograph as the starting point, she will teach you to immortalize expressive looks, melancholic gestures, and how to add organic or imaginative motifs to enrich your design and give it an original look. This course is complementary to Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners, also by Ana Santos, in which you can learn to paint with watercolors from scratch and that mistakes can sometimes be the perfect ally.

Writing allows us to express our feelings while also exploring the world around us. Words open the door to new perspectives, analogies, and metaphors. For this, there's no better guide than Afonso Cruz, winner of the European Union Prize for Literature with more than 30 books published in 20 languages. In this course, learn to tell an original story from start to finish. With the help of Afonso, develop your own piece step-by-step and explore professional narrative techniques to unlock your ideas that awaken your creativity.

Working in a globalized world means it’s vital to know the trends of the web before you make your next move. Digital strategist Ana Marín specializes in finding opportunities, trends, and cultural insights by analyzing the technology that enables human connection. She has worked on a variety of content from infomercials to music videos and is currently the digital integration and innovation vice president at McCann Worldgroup Mexico. In this course, she shares her insights on creating digital strategies that capture an audience’s attention. Create your own social media ecosystem and post content that drives sales. This is Ana’s second course with Domestika. In her first, Introduction to Community Management, she teaches you the fundamentals of fostering an active community online. This course is ideal for anyone looking to start a career in social media management.

https://watch.filmmakersacademy.com/programs/how-to-test-lenses

• 2 Lessons | 35 minutes of instructional videos | 2 Podcasts
• How to Test Lenses is an essential part of the prep process. Finding the exact emotion of your story that you are trying to tell is all about tests and seeing how your lens resolve's, how it flares, how it vignettes naturally, where is its sweet spot, how much does it distort, are the questions you will answer but only by testing and going down the rabbit hole.
• In this course, you’ll learn how to test your lens. What are all the tests that you need to perform and how these tests inform your final decision.

Lighting allows you to tell a story in a single image by capturing the mood and emotion of your subject. Relying on speedlights and light modifiers, photographer Chris Robinson is able to turn abstract feelings into images, creating portraits that focus on facial expressions and the human form. Connect with viewers emotionally by exploring flash photography and the versatility of speedlights. Take your photography skills a step further by learning off-camera lighting setups, how to work with models, and the most efficient workflow for retouching high-impact images to tell a story.

https://watch.filmmakersacademy.com/programs/music-licensing-and-selection-with-musicbed

• 5 Lessons | 1 hour of instructional videos
• Music Licensing and Selection with Musicbed is a course that shows editors how to find, place, and tailor music to perfectly fit your project.
• Editor Joaquin Elizondo guides viewers through the process of selecting music for action, comedy, and drama genres. Follow along as Joaquin demonstrates how to mark shifting tones and beats and how your musical soundtrack elevates your storytelling. 
• In this course, Joaquin turns to the music-licensing platform Musicbed for its industry-leading artists and user-friendly experience.

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