How Johannes Switched Careers Through the Motion Design Program
Meet Hyper Island alumni Johannes Fast, a global creative mind who has started his own company after completing internships in agencies across Italy, USA, and Sweden.
Motion Creative
Advance your design career by becoming a world-class visual storyteller and bringing your designs to life.
Location
Stockholm
Overview
Master storytelling
Motion Creative is our answer to the rising demand for motion graphics across industries. Advance your skills in animation, conceptualization and ideation to become a modern digital storyteller that brings designs to life.
Level up your design game
Complement and expand your design toolbox with industry insights and hands-on practice creating graphics for software, film, video and mobile platforms.
Course content
Develop new skills
Over 45-weeks of intense learning and hands-on experience, Motion Creative program will give you the chance to develop the skills and knowledge you need to transform your design career.
We recommend previous design experience in order to succeed in this program. You will receive 30 weeks of full-time study on our Stockholm campus, followed by a 15-week internship at the organization of your choice.
- Learn to work the motion design funnel
A creative is only as good as their pitch. Learn how to take your ideas to the next level by making them easily accessible for others. Learn skills such as how to find a relevant target group, how to justify motion designs for clients, how to effectively project manage your designs and how to optimize the motion production process.
- Work across industries
The demand for motion graphics professionals is constantly rising. After taking this program, you will be able to work across industries and explore where your skills can take you. You’ll have the ability to take on exciting roles such as concept creator, motion designer, art director and video editor.
- Fact-based storytelling
Learn how to tell the right stories. Use ideation to create solid creative concepts, and learn to develop them further. Immerse yourself into industry trends to create compelling stories that meet your client’s needs today and tomorrow. Learn to work with diverse tools and software such as AfterEffects, Photoshop, Cinema4D, Resolume, Houdini and Unity.
Career opportunities
Get the skills to accelerate your career
Explore new industries
This exciting program fuses elements of classical animation with modern technologies to help you launch your career – not just in the motion industry, but also in other motion graphics demanding fields such as marketing and advertising.
Get industry-relevant skills
All course content is designed to meet the needs of today’s industries and is delivered by industry professionals at the forefront of their fields. Real project briefs set by real clients form the core of the program’s modules and are developed in close collaboration with our network of industry partners.
Our methodology
Hyper Island Way
Hyper Island methodology is based on a learner-centered, experience-based approach. We facilitate learning journeys, where discovering, uncovering, applying and reflecting is all part of the process by which participants learn useful skills and knowledge they can apply right away.
Learn by doing
Build, create, experiment! We know from more than 20 years of experience that people learn best through active doing and making.
Work in teams
Collaboration is the modern core competence in a world of complexity and constant change.
Real-world ready
We build learning around actual examples and practical tasks to make it all immediately relevant and useful.
Global network of experts
We work with world-leading industry experts to provide the most cutting-edge content.
Coming from the music industry, Hyper Island was a real turnaround for me. An explosion of inspiration, self-awareness and a springboard into the world of animation.
Simon Appel
Art Director @ Part One
Hyper Island was my most eye-opening year to that date. At times terrifyingly challenging – and for the same reasons incredibly rewarding!
Hanna Reuterwall
Creative Producer
Vocational education at its best
This program is a vocational diploma program which means that you will practice experience based learning; no textbooks, tests or traditional teachers. Instead, you will be a part of a collaborative and high-energy learning environment that mirrors the modern workplace dynamics.
Surrounded by a diverse set of talent and industry experts from all over the world, you will get a chance to create solutions based on real problems of real clients.
Join a global network
Hyper Island alumni and collaborators can be found in every corner of the world. Join our global network of change makers and radical thinkers.
Application & Admissions
Entry Requirements
Knowledge and experience in the following areas: Animation, Photography, Video, Tv & Film Production and editing, gained from either previous studies in High School, higher education, or through previous practical experience.
Program Fee
The program fee is 152,000 SEK.
Swedish and Nordic residents can study this program free of charge.
Admissions process for International Applicants
Step 1: Pick a program
Hyper Island offers a wide variety of programs to suit any number of learning and career goals. As part of your application, you can select up to 3 program choices.
Step 2: Book a call with the admissions team
If you have made a choice of program or would like to explore your options, we are here to help. Arrange a call with our admissions team to get all the info you need to submit an application. You can reach us by email or book a call with our student relations manager.
Step 3: Digital admissions and callback
Together with our student relations manager, you will decide on a date to join a Digital Admissions day. Digital admissions days are held online and involve an interview, group task and individual task. A week later, you will participate in an online callback meeting with our admissions manager, who will give you our decision regarding your application. Read more here.
Alumni
Student stories
‘Hyper Island’s methodology made me feel like I have more control over my life’ – meet Louise
Louise spoke with us about her journey to and from Hyper Island.
‘Hyper Island is not Swedish, it’s very much global. No matter where you’re from, you will fit in.’
Jin wants to take all the great things he learns at Hyper Island back to his home country.
“I like to seek and explore the magic in each day” – meet Dano, Program Manager for Motion Creative
Meet Dano Marr, Hyper Island alumnus, painter, and now Program Manager for our Motion Creative program in Stockholm.