Motion Design: Moving People

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Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

I really, really hate this guy:
https://vimeo.com/40006163

He hosted his project file and it's absolutely ridiculous. Layer after layer after layer in precomp after precomp. No heavy reliance on glintzy plug-ins, just straight up keyframing. It's stunning.

Time to throw away my computer

# ¿ Oct 25, 2012 16:14

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# ¿ Jan 23, 2026 02:10

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

redjenova posted:

https://vimeo.com/51880450

Reposting this in here more for the sake of having content for the thread (though I see it has been spectacularly bumped). Can't wait to to dig through that source file.

I'm using my last year in school to do motion and nothing but. It's kind of hard to decide what to do next when you can do basically anything you want, though. I may end up doing another title sequence (although I have two already, but it's a huge part of what I'd like to do after I graduate). Maybe some TV bumpers/idents?

I'm not sure the source file on that project would be that involved. It's just pan & scans over still artwork on different z-depths with some grungy multiplied layers added for texture. Maybe some track mattes added? It is pretty, though.

For your final year, maybe you could do a complete graphics package for a show you like? Open, close, lower thirds, idents? That was one of my better school projects. Or maybe a kinetic typography piece if that's still a popular thing.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2012 17:22

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

Ha, my bad. I'm glad people are finally over kinetic type. One project is cute but man, they get tedious after a while.

edit: for content since I love bumping this thread today so much...here's my demo reel. I really need to go back and polish this.

https://vimeo.com/18303077

I fall into the trap of getting super excited over recently finished pieces that honestly aren't very good and adding them to the reel. Also I probably need to add more 2D work to it.

Electric Crayon fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Oct 25, 2012

# ¿ Oct 25, 2012 17:32

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

raging bullwinkle posted:

I think more people should post things to look at.

Here's something I made the other day.

https://vimeo.com/53498700

Was pretty fun to make. I'd like to get into motion more.

Looks like you have a pretty good knack for it. Nice work!

edit: Speaking of expressions, this one is by far my favorite to use when I'm working on something that calls for a lighter fare. It gives movements a bubbly bounce and saves me a ton of time so I don't have to keyframe everything.

hey look at this thing posted:

amp = .1;
freq = 2.0;
decay = 2.0;
n = 0;
if (numKeys > 0){
n = nearestKey(time).index;
if (key(n).time > time){
n--;
}}
if (n == 0){ t = 0;
}else{
t = time - key(n).time;
}
if (n > 0){
v = velocityAtTime(key(n).time - thisComp.frameDuration/10);
value + v*amp*Math.sin(freq*t*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*t);
}else{value}

You can adjust the integers for amp, frequency and decay to give something more weight, a more elastic bounce, or what have you. It's fun to mess around with.

Electric Crayon fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Nov 15, 2012

# ¿ Nov 15, 2012 15:28

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

Great work! You're 3D work is very slick, and the part after "Bingo Players" looked awesome. You might want to remove the "Stop Motion" bit, it's by far the weakest part of the real. It's a little slow and breaks up the action, and the motion blur effect you have on the letters moving there kind of betrays the natural process of stop motion. Also, while the layered pyramid being covered in green paint looks really cool, it looks pretty similar to this Greyscale Gorilla tutorial. Maybe you can add some more 2D After Effects animations to it for a more well-rounded look? Still though, good stuff.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2013 15:44

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

Welcome to hell. An amazing, horrifying hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX3iLfcMDCw

This might be the only time I've appreciated the use of the puppet tool and/or mesh warps on raster objects.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2013 14:45

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

BonoMan posted:

That looks great.

Is there a succinct reason C4D is preferable for motion graphics? I've always been a Maya guy, but now that I do almost strictly motion graphics work for production, it seems I may want to look at making a change.

It's super simple and intuitive! Once you get the hang of cloner objects and effectors, you can create things super quickly.

I made this cool ghost dude in like, 10 minutes. All it took was half of a sphere primitive, a formula effector for the bottom draping, and a hypernurb to smooth it out. I just keyframed the y-value of two capsule primitives for eyes.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2013 21:01

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

I was bored and so I made a thing.

Zangief is the strongest.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 14:24

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

So much for CS7.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418602,00.asp

I still don't know how I feel about Adobe's new platform of cloud-only subscription or nothing (unless you stick with CS6 until the end of time). It's fine for my employer, since it's just allocated to the office budget, but $600 a year for whatever personal projects I want to work on seems steep. Guess I'll be sticking with my CS5 for a little while longer.

# ¿ May 10, 2013 15:52

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

I decided to toss my hat into making stupid motion graphics gifs on Tumblr, but ye gods, what a horribly annoying process. It takes me longer to manipulate and color correct the image to get it to upload than to make the gif itself. 50% of the time I can't even upload the gifs entirely, even after following byzantine tip after tip.

Anyways, here two cool ones that I tend to follow:
http://motionaddicts.tumblr.com/
http://motionaday.tumblr.com/

I like these because they're not your typical "hey man I found a cool greyscalegorilla tutorial and messed around with some keyframes" that seem to be 95% of the ones on Tumblr.

# ¿ Aug 19, 2013 21:59

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# ¿ Jan 23, 2026 02:10

Electric Crayon: Jul 20, 2004; Oh, it's you!

dumb question for motion designers: my job is giving me the option of going to Siggraph this year, since I missed the NAB conference. Is it worth the cross-country trip as a mere motion graphics guy for a cable network?

# ¿ May 18, 2016 00:35

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