Motion Graphic Design and Fine Art Animation is a comprehensive, full-color text that provides a technical and aesthetic investigation of the processes inherent to 2D motion graphics for digital media, from inspiration to process to delivery.
The text is designed to guide you through a complete examination of the technical proficiencies and critical and creative reasoning required to create today's motion graphics, for application in any of a variety of digital media: the Web, CD-ROMs, DVDs, TV, movies, or computer games.
This text provides a thorough explanation of the theories behind why type and graphics should move in certain ways, and how to make them do so, using techniques such as keyframe control, rotoscoping, compositing, editing, and more.
Each chapter builds progressively: from concept, to image acquisition, creation, storyboard design, and finally, to execution. The text and DVD include case studies, exercises, interviews with computer graphics professionals, exercises, assignments, and a motion gallery.
Popular software programs are discussed within the context of text lessons: Adobe After Effects, Macromedia Flash, Corel Painter, Discreet Combustion, and more.
Animation in the arts and in the industry
1 Experimental animation and film title design
2 Animation in broadcast and interactive design
Concept and design
3 Conceptualization
4 Pictorial considerations
5 Progressive considerations
Animation tools and techniques
6 Frame-by-frame animation
7 Interpolation
8 Animation compositing
Output and delivery
9 Output criteria
10 Output for motion pictures and television
11 Output for digital media