Make graphics that
actually move people.

Where graphics come to life.

Motion graphics is design in motion — the animated titles, logo reveals, lower-thirds, kinetic text and explainer animations that give a video its polish and personality. It’s the difference between a plain cut and content that looks like a brand spent money on it. Every slick ad, every clean YouTube intro, every animated logo you’ve admired was built by someone who knows this craft.

It sits right between design and film — part graphic design, part animation, part editing. You think in shapes, type and timing, and you make still elements move with weight and intention so they feel alive instead of stuck on top of the footage.

In Nepal, demand for it is climbing fast. Agencies, brands, YouTubers and production houses all want motion now, and the people who can deliver clean, professional graphics are still few — which makes the skill genuinely valuable. As more of the country’s business moves to video and social, motion has quietly become one of the most requested skills on any creative team, and one of the hardest to hire for.

From first keyframe to finished animation.

Built in After Effects.

You’ll work primarily in Adobe After Effects, the industry standard for motion graphics and the tool Nepal’s agencies and studios expect you to know. You’ll learn how it connects to the rest of a real pipeline — Dynamic Link into Premiere Pro, where your graphics meet the cut, and how the Fusion page in DaVinci Resolve handles similar work. The goal is a clean workflow from design to delivery, not a pile of disconnected tricks.

You’ll also build the design instincts underneath the software — type, colour, spacing and restraint — because the best motion graphics aren’t the busiest, they’re the most intentional. Software is the easy part to teach; taste is what we train alongside it.

Animated on real briefs.

You don’t learn motion graphics by following along with a tutorial that always works. You learn it by solving real briefs — a brand wants a logo sting, a YouTuber needs an intro, an ad needs animated text on a deadline — with all the messy decisions that come with them.

A mentor who does this work sits with you, showing you why your animation feels stiff, where your timing is off, how to make a move land. You’ll build real pieces, get real feedback, and learn the speed and polish that paid work demands.

You finish with a motion reel — titles, logo animations and graphics you actually built — the one thing that convinces an agency or client you can do the job.

You’ll also learn to work the way studios actually work: keeping a project tidy so a revision doesn’t take all night, naming and organising layers and compositions, reusing what you build, and taking client feedback without starting over each time. Those habits are what let you deliver fast and keep clients coming back — and they’re rarely taught alongside the software.

What you’ll be able to do.

Where motion takes you.

For editors and designers who want movement.

This course suits anyone who wants their work to move. Editors come to add motion graphics to their skill set — the basics are already part of our video editing package, and this is the full, deep version. Graphic designers come to make their static work animate. Content creators come to build their own intros and graphics instead of paying for them. And complete beginners with a feel for design come because motion rewards a good eye and patient hands. You don’t need to be an artist or a coder — you need timing, taste, and the willingness to refine.

Push buttons, or think like a designer.

Good to know.

After Effects, taught project by project

Motion graphics at OFI is built around Adobe After Effects, taught the same way everything here is taught — through finished pieces, not isolated lessons. Keyframes and the graph editor, shape layers, masks and mattes, precomposing, expressions basics, text animation and 3D layers all arrive inside real briefs: a logo animation, a title sequence, an explainer, a set of social-media graphics.

Animation principles get equal weight to software. Easing, anticipation, follow-through, timing and rhythm are what make motion feel professional, and we drill them until your work stops looking like a template and starts looking designed.

You will also learn the pipeline around After Effects — how projects come in from Premiere and Illustrator and how finished animation is rendered and delivered — so you fit cleanly into any studio’s workflow.

Every screen you look at is a client

Motion graphics is quietly everywhere: the animated logo before a video, the lower-thirds on the news, the kinetic text in an ad, the explainer a startup uses to raise money, the subtitles-with-style on every viral reel. Businesses in Nepal are producing more video than ever, and nearly all of it needs motion design.

Agencies and production houses in Kathmandu hire motion designers directly, and the international remote market is even larger — explainer studios, YouTube channels and marketing teams abroad constantly outsource animation work.

Because far fewer people study motion design than editing, the field is less crowded. A strong reel here stands out fast.

Ten seconds that do all the talking

Motion design is hired almost entirely from the reel, so building yours is a formal part of the course. Every project you finish is refined to portfolio standard, and in the final weeks we help you cut them into a tight, rhythmic showreel with sound design — the ten to forty seconds that will do more for your career than any document.

You will learn to present work the way studios expect: clean renders, a simple portfolio page, and process breakdowns that show you understand what you made.

Graduates leave with a reel, source projects they can discuss in interviews, and the confidence of having survived real deadlines — which every studio quietly tests for.