The 12 Basic Principles Of Motion Graphics

As any cliché artist would say, “I started drawing a lot when I was younger;” but not me –I can’t remember when I started to enjoy the arts. I have always been driven to create and express myself. I painted scenery to calm my nerves, draw intricate objects to focus on details, and draw dynamic poses to allow development of my eye. The mountain of used sketchbooks fills its’ own bookcase, dating back to early elementary years when I would create little stories much like a comic book. Despite my deep love for the arts, I always loved animation much more. Animation is the perfect blend of drawing and creating visual aid, while elaborately designing a storyline and plot to engage the audience –animation lets the average audience member to feel

In many people’s opinions, animation means funny and humor and designed for children. The content of the animation is nothing more than fairy tales, legends, fables, etc. Animation even becomes a symbol of Disney cartoon. However, if we re-examine the animation from another point of view, we will find that it has grown out of a single commercial mode constraints. Some of the animations are complicated, obscure and abstract. Variety kinds of visual images in it stimulate the audience's optic nerves. This is the salient features of experimental animation. Experimental animation belongs to the field which between film and pure art. Innovation is the soul of it. In the production process, the

3. Imagery- descriptive language used to make the audience think of a picture in their mind; words to help visualize.

Defining Motions: in this task, we assign the needed elements such as sounds, lights, and the used cameras as well. Besides, in motion task, we can define the positions and the movement of these elements. For example, the lights can move from site to site to follow the characters. [5]

Aside from basic two dimensional art, I have always been fascinated with the unique stories told through film. The way that a picture is painted through film is something that one cannot find in just any art form. Film is unique and fascinating, so I sought to find a way to unite the two worlds of film and the 2D art that I enjoy so much. My findings were that digital animation combined the artistic style that I love and the storytelling of film in a way that intrigued me beyond any other career I had researched.

Digital graphics are in their own way an art form, digitally constructed to create phenomenal images. However, you need to have some sort of artistic ability combined with a suitable computer system before you can design the perfect graphic.

To investigate and observe how the acceleration of a mass depends on the resultant forces acting on it, along with its mass, and to furthermore define the relationship between acceleration, net force, and mass as a single equation.

Animation is the technique of photographing successive drawings or the positioning of models to create illusion of movement in the movie. Animation is all around us. Animation is in our homes, schools, and workplace. Films that used animation were mainly Disney movies. Disney movies used animation in cartoons every since mid 1900s.

The dramatic element of movement was manipulated by the actors in order to transform the characters into realistic, three dimensional beings. An example from the

a two-dimensional object with real or implied lines that create the sense of direction and movement:

The “Eight Heads” created in 1922, by Escher would be an example of this. There are, of course eight heads, four facing to the north and four facing to the south. Another used in his work was reflection. Reflection meaning a translation that creates a mirrored image, its like looking into the mirror, put your hand on your right should its going to appear in the mirror as if it was on your left. The “ Wild West” created in 1920 is an example, people are facing another as if they were being reflected. Another being rotation, a figure that is turned about a fixed point. It can be in the process or in the act of turning, or even circling around a fixed point. “Lizard” created in 1942, Escher used several colors to show change and movement in this painting. The are moving from at least and 90 degree fixed pointed a 180 degree fixed point. Last but not least, Dilation. Is a the same figure as the original, but a different size, if the dilation creates a larger image then it is known as a enlargement. “Thinking Outside the Box” is a perfect example. In the image a man is holding a larger dox while the floor is based pattern is smaller box.

Motion pictures are not really motion at all. They are a series of still shots, put together at a rate that is beyond the capacity of our visual system to separate. Older movies seem choppy to us because their speed is too slow and we can still detect the ‘stillness’ of the shots. Once movies were shot at the rate of 24 frames per second, they went beyond out range. The result is that the visual display seems to be in motion (p. 26). Doesn’t this idea seem to be eerily similar to Zeno’s paradox of the flying arrow? Basically the paradox, from Socratic times, states that “it is impossible for a thing to be moving during a period of time, because it is impossible for it to be moving at an indivisible instant” (Mazur, 2007, p.4). What if all motion we perceive, not just motion pictures, is because the still shots are stacked too closely to each other for us to be able to resolve them visually? Is reality really nothing more that a series of moments, moving (perhaps vibrating) too quickly for us to make the distinction? If so, is time really the 4th dimension? Perhaps its motion and the passage of time is the illusion that results from

Animation; an art form with the ability to tell a story and convey a multitude of emotions along with information. Animation can be found almost everywhere in media from commercials, to movies, to games. Every single animation need an animator or a team of animators to create it. There are many kinds of animation: 2D, 3D, motion graphics, visual effects. Each of these categories may have multiple people working on them using their own special skills to produce the final product. The reason for researching this occupation is because of my fascination and respect for the craft. I admire the art of storytelling immensely and the creativity that goes into it.

Stop motion animation is when you take a picture of something, move it ever so slightly (depending on how smooth you want the sequence to be) then take another picture and so on and so on. The sequence of pictures will create an illusion of a moving image. When creating a stop motion animation it can either be done traditionally or a computer can be used to generate the background sets.

Before computers became universally used and accepted motion pictures were made using traditional animation. It was a process that most animated films were created with during the 20th century. Individual frames were typically photographs of drawings. In order to create the illusion of movement, animators created each frame slightly different than the one previous. This process was used to create the treasured classics Pinocchio.