Thanks to an impressive wealth of talent, innovation and creativity, motion graphics is still an emerging area for designers. Nick Spence catches up with a number of leading industry practitioners to find out what it takes to make it big.
Creating stencils is a straightforward process that can produce impressive results. But what if you want to take the technique further? Motion graphics pro Lee Heyward reveals a simple way to animate your stencil designs.
Sardinian-born Carolina Melis trained as a dancer and choreographer before specialising in illustration and animation. As a result, her work now reflects the grace and fluidity of dance.
Flight is an extremely complex thing to design, but you can start by thinking about how birds move and how to most effectively rig your model to approximate this kind of motion.
Keyframing oscillating objects, such as a swinging pendulum or a bobbing buoy, can be a laborious task, but as demonstrates, a brief and flexible script can create natural movement in one clean sweep.