motion graphics
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- raiden
motion graphics is the new lens flare:
overused, mundane, corporate cheese, and everyone wants one.
discuss.
- 305artist0
Your about 2 years late on that. But motion graphics are important nevertheless.
- fadeproof0
hey shithead, im making bank on "motion graphics" while you're whining like a good little bitch
discuss
- 305artist0
hahah
- dijitaq0
motion graphics is the new lens flare:
overused, mundane, corporate cheese, and everyone wants one.
discuss.
raiden
(Jan 10 06, 20:25)pfffffffffffft
- doesnotexist0
sure. okay!
corporate cheese? cheese i can listen to outside?
- Super_Starr0
I am confused. You're saying motion graphics as in After Effects is lame?
Why is that?
- ********0
i agree with the the first and second posts. Imagine that we do someday live with technology from Minority Report, you'll be touching buttons even more often than you do now. how would you like it if every button blips and bleeps like 2A crap? it would drive you nuts after 3 mins. this is what using a mac is like for me. motion graphics causes brain damage, this will be proven in 20 yrs, mark my words douchebag.
- 305artist0
Theres just alot of generic quasi 3d crap that all looks the same, and Im guilty of it as well. It's getting better but everything looked the same last year. Plus alot of people think they can rosey up a crap piece by throwing a bunch of bad effects on it. I know cause I see it all the time. I tell clients all the time less is more, then they say... "your fired . Hire the guy that adds a bunch of cluttered crap with depth that looks cool like comedy central and stays busy all day listening to his iPod."
- fate_0
I'm jealous of renascent and bradley grosh.
But Trapcode is responsible for a lot of the lame and tired shit seen in the motion graphics arena.
- ********0
yes, one after effects scripter is responsible for everything looking them same. you're right.
- fate_0
Not all, but when Mountain Dew commercials start using 3dStroke then you know it's dead.
- 305artist0
I like the trapcode effects :).
- fate_0
I do too, but they're just so easy that everyone can use them in a snap. Then you get tired of seeing it everywhere fast.
- ********0
I'm just pissed that by the time I have the means to bed selma hayek, she'll be like forty or something. wtf
- fresnobob0
Yes and yes the the two years thing, however...
All motion graphics really is is film making, and film making is dfinately not dead.
- dijitaq0
should rephrase the first post. is not the motion graphic itself but the technique used.
pffft
- harlequino0
If you're unhappy with the prevalance of trends, then push the medium forward, and do something different.
In the 50's, certain filmmakers were pissed with the state of cinema. Instead of moaning about it, they made their own art. That's how new wave came about, and half the techniques of contemporary film would not exist without.
Yeah...so there. :)
- fresnobob0
Totally, man.
- tank020
bland?
check this boy out.
http://www.josephkosinski.com/ah with the trapcodes...
its how use em eh.its a stupid statement raiden.
motion graphics is such divers and goes from title design to motage an dcollercorrection to animation.
- raiden0
hey
yeah, the original post was deliberately vaguge and well, to some, provocatively annoying.
but i do motion graphics as well. what i wanted to bring (as should be brought at any time, not just once) is how this line of work has lost its luster, or become to commodified to such a degree than anyone and their granparents can do it.
what comes to mind is the bell curve, or the egg yolk diagram - there's lots of crust, and it's building up because of it's accessibility, but the real "meat" of it is making itself more rare. does that make sense?
my issue is not with motion graphics - that's just an easy target in this community. what i was trying to get at is how "craft" seems to have been lost when everyone was drooling over version 6.1.1.1.2 of after effects or trapcode's new plugin, and in the process, forgot what made "process" so interesting in the first place.
my mini spiel.