Motion Graphics

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  This topic is fascinating to me because it is what I do and I see people grappling with it all the time.

  Motion Designers are really a new kind of artist. There are designers and illustrators and then there are designers who are good at making things move. And not just technical....people that have a feel for motion.

  On Instagram there are often very famous illustrators who try to make some animation, and it is usually very crude and simplistic and it highlights the fact that motion design is a specific skill that is learned but also instinctive, just like any other design skill.

  If someone is a good designer or illustrator, they are probably reluctant to take the time to really learn animation tools, and it is an investment in time, especially 3D.....and so they will never even know if they are good at it.

  But there is a crop of artists who do all of it, they know design, illustration and motion, probably because they just had to, or loved it, and I think this is the future

  As everything we see is more and more often on a screen, and can potentially move, kids in design school will have to learn motion....if they are not already doing it.

  Thanks for listening to my mini-Ted talk

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  • Well said. I worked on few gigs that required some motion graphics, and I found it exhausting. Like you say, I just didn’t have the feel for it.Gnash
  • I hated that I sucked at it. At first I blamed my lack of technical skills as the reason for my struggleGnash

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