Motion Creative is our answer to the rising demand for motion graphics across industries. Advance your skills in animation, conceptualization and communication to become a modern digital storyteller that brings designs to life.
Level up your design game Complement and expand your motion toolbox with industry insights and hands-on practice creating visuals 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.
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.
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, class of 2014
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!
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.
FAQ's
Entry Requirements:
Successful applicants need to have at least a high school diploma (“Gymnasieexamen”) or a foreign equivalent as well as the Swedish high school courses in “Film and TV production” or “Photography” or “Film and interactive sound production” or foreign equivalent knowledge gained from high school, higher education, or through previous practical experience.
Payment Options:
For international/fee-paying students there are two standard payment options for this program: (1) Pay your tuition fee all at once to receive 5% discount; (2) Pay your tuition fee in 3 instalments. Early Bird discount offers you 10,000 SEK off of the tuition fee if you sign your contract before 25th December 2019.
Relocation:
The full-time Motion Creative program requires you to be on the Hyper Island campus in Stockholm. You will be studying from Monday to Friday 9am-5/6pm. This means you will need to relocate for the first 30 weeks of the program. Hyper Island does not recommend any employment during the duration of the program.
For the remaining 15 weeks, you will embark on your Industrial Internship. This project is your opportunity to apply your newly learnt skills and knowledge and can be completed either in Sweden or anywhere in the world.
Visa:
Hyper Island will provide the necessary documentation for applications to the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) for students requiring an entry visa and/or student residence permit.