Motion Graphics
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- CGN
Do you have anything inspirational? Looking for anything amazing. Here is a great short, I met the walrus.
- eating_tv1
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http://www.cgart.com/
http://www.motionographer.com/
- shapesalad0
Why is it, that so many Motion Designers in the industry, not talking Buck level, just average motion designer working on corporate explainers and what nots... the average Motion Designer 'guy' (like 99% it's a guy) tend to have zero design skills?
They just lack an eye for design. A sense of style. A flair. They know all the plugins, all the effects, all the 3D stuff... yet are incapable of the basics of good design, of working with negative space, typography, colours, composition layouts etc.
Just an observation... based on the guys I'm working with. Seems rare to meet a motion designer that can actually 'design'.
- You could say the same for front end developers.
Maybe the basics are not that easy to master?Chimp - Since animation is very tool oriented a certain type get good at it...and design is different - tools are less intensedkoblesky
- anyone who can do both is a potent force...and more rare for suredkoblesky
- Developers can get by without being designers. The term Motion Designer implies having animation and design skills.CyBrainX
- What you're saying is even more true about 3D designers. Many of them can't even choose a decent font.CyBrainX
- You could say the same for front end developers.
- dkoblesky0
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.
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