You space themed infographic - queries

Hi Arathi!
I worked with Allison and our illustrator & designer Greg on this course. Greg designed the illustrations from scratch and then I animated them with Adobe After Effects. I used photoshop to turn them into gifs. There are a lot of gifs throughout the course that are different sizes but a good rule of thumb is to make it as small as possible without being blurry so that you can get the file size down. Gifs can add a lot of visual interest to a course, but if the file size is very large, it can detract from the course because it can make the page load too slowly.

If I were in your situation, where I wanted to try out some little animated gifs in a course to give it a bespoke feel but didn't really have the time to learn a bunch of new tools, I'd try playing around with some free animated icon sets. A quick search led me here to a big list of 200 free animated icons! And you can even download them as gifs so that you don't have to mess around with After Effects or Photoshop if you're not ready to take a deep dive into graphic and motion graphic design. I also have used Motion Array for little random animated elements and they have tons of templates! However, it's intended more for people with video and motion experience and it's a monthly subscription. I hope this is helpful for you!