Title Sequence

This week I have been working between my infographic that will now be my final project and a title sequence. I have decided to do the title sequence for the 1996 movie Primal Fear. It is a story of deceit, murder, double personality disorder and injustice. I found my inspiration from the television series Manhattan's title sequence. It uses animation, layering and stop motion. I think it may be difficult, but I'm very excited to execution it and view the final product.

Game Grumps Animated

So one of the greatest things to come to YouTube was Game Grumps, and one of the even greater things about this are the mountains of animators that like to bring their videos to gaming-life! This video is from YouTube user iscoppie who decided to spin a few of their conversations as if they were characters from a Kirby and Super Mario series. I highly advise that you only watch this if you can stomach raunchy stories.

I think this is a pretty good example of the messy sort of beauty of motion. It's truly an inspiration for lazy animators (kind of like me but not really), not to say no work went into this video, but that the unruly technique lends itself to a fun and attractive animating style!

Kurzgesagt

The brain likes to learn. Over the summer the company I worked at was responsible for recording a lot of TED talks. If there's one thing I learned from sorting through and watching these lectures it's that the best TED talks are quick, informational, and usually have an endearing personality attached to them. Recently I've stumbled across a YouTube channel that takes these same principles and combines them with sleek and beautifully animated graphics.

I found myself tearing through these videos not only because they were so interesting, but because each poignant snippet of scientific jargon was elegantly matched by equally beautiful images. It just goes to show how eager one really is to learn when the information is presented to them in an engaging way. 

I'd love to see how a video like this comes together but from what I've heard videos such as the one above require more over 200 hours of work so for now I'll settle for cutting up digital paper.

Creativity for Dummies

Inspiration can be hard a lot of times. What do I do when I can't think of a design for a motion graphic, I turn to a couple of websites for help!

1. Youtube

A simple Youtube search of "after effects..." and whatever else you want, will give you a plethera of results that you can view. A lot of times too, there are tutorials that can help you learn how to make the graphic. I find myself going between a lot different videos, pulling aspects of each video until I get my final result.

2. VideoHive

What is Videohive? Videohive is a website that sells all kinds of high quality motion graphics. While I don't advocate the purchasing of graphic templates, I think they're a great resource to get some ideas of what you want to do. They have everything from simple looking animations, to complex designs. After spending only 10 minutes on this website, I'm sure anybody could get a good idea of something they want to do.

3. Motionspire

This one should be pretty self-explanitory. Motionspire is a hub to show inspirational graphics, animations, videos, etc. from all around the web! I've only recently discovered this website, but oh man, I already love it! It's simple to use interface, and easy to navigate gallery make this website a great addition for anyone looking for ideas. 10/10, would recommend.


Now these are only a couple of the many websites out there for you to use, but I thought I should share the places that I personally go to.