Title Sequence Helps

I was researching tutorials on creating title sequences for my next project and across a couple of good ones.

The first one I'm including is by Brendan Riel and has some good basics that can add a little polish to your sequence.

The second one is very Saul Bass—in fact they even say so in their description. "A retro title sequence in the style of Saul Bass, pioneer of title sequences. Whether you've a Hitchcock style detective film noir or a more up beat Spielberg, Catch Me if You Can, production -- maybe even a horror film -- this sequence is abstract enough to cater for most movie genres." It is actually a template, which I didn't know they make, and can be purchased at Envato. 

I never even thought about designing motion graphics to sell. This opens up new ideas to me. Imagine designing really cool sequences, or things like it, and then possibly selling them "en mass". That's a completely different market.

Great TV Title Sequences

I have to share some really good title sequences that are on, of all places, TV. These are just some of the ones that I have found to be really well done that also fit the shows perfectly.

This first one is from Mad Men and is just awesome!



Then we have Dexter! I love this show and the opening credits are perfect for it!
 



Then I have Game of Thrones...enough said, right!

Animating Text

This week's homework was on animating text. It was pretty informative and I know that I will be using some of the things that I learned. This, of course, led me to look for more things to do to animate text, which took me to none other than YouTube.

I came across quite a few tutorials by Evan Abrams that I found to be helpful. Here is his YouTube bio:

"Here you'll find "quality" Adobe After Effects tutorials. And by quality I mean things I would have found useful when I was starting out in motion graphics. I've been using After Effects since 1995, which is longer than the average YouTube viewer has been alive so... I'm kind of an expert. And now I'm sharing that knowledge with you, but you have to pay the tole of listening to my bad jokes.
New tutorials come out on the Weekend, and if you ever have troubles just ask me a question in the comments or on my twitter @ECAbrams. Oh and if learning isn't your jam and you just want me to make something for you send business inquiries to info@evanabrams.com, I'm usually available... except when I'm not."

Top 10 New Features of Hype 2

I was searching for information on Hype 2, before purchasing for my own use at home, and ran across this video by Tumult on YouTube. Below is the information that I found about the video, along with a link to their website.

Published on Aug 20, 2013

Tumult Hype is the HTML5 animation builder for OS X. Explore the top 10 new features of Tumult Hype 2.0 in 10 minutes and learn about Hype Reflect, a brand new companion app for iOS.

1. Instant Preview to iOS 0:29
2. Audio Actions 1:19
3. Curved Motion Paths 2:48
4. Web Fonts 3:42
5. Swipe and Touch Events 4:44
6. Mobile Options 6:31
7. Enhanced Preview Toolbar Button 7:03
8. Search Engine Visibility 7:28
9. Shapes 7:48
10. OS X Technology 8:07

For more information:
http://tumult.com/hype/

Motion Design examples from iFlexDesigns

This week I thought I would feature a design firm that specializes in motion design  iFlexDesigns - Young Artists, Unique Ideas © 2014. I gleaned the following information from their YouTube channel. "iFlexDesigns is a Graphics teams, full of young & passionate designers, sharing their creativity and originality through visuality. Originally started by an individual, iFlexDesigns has grown enormously the past year, and currently manages over 20 both Graphic & Motion Designers! Effective Art, is an exellence of creativity, which has the ability to influence others by its visuality and originality - Dyllan Khawam // Founder of iFlexDesigns."

The first example I'm sharing was published on Feb. 15, 2013, and titled "Motion-Design Reel" and was found on YouTube. It shows a really good combination of music and motion with some good ideas that could come in useful in the future. 




This is iFlexDesigns Promo video, which I also found on YouTube, and was published on Nov. 18, 2013. This shows a compilation of the different things that they do at iFlexDesigns. I'm impressed with the wide range of things they work on. The way this was set up, it will automatically go to their next video, etc. So, you can watch one, or however many you want.

What is Motion Design

I thought that for this week's blog I would look up the question "What is Motion Design" on YouTube and see what I comes back. I was quite pleasantly surprised! The first example that I'm sharing with you is by Kaprion Vision. "Kaprion Vision - is a small but tightly organized studio based in Central Europe. We creat music videos, commercials, short films, animations, and everything that has a speed of 24 frames per second."




This second one is by Vancouver Film School. "Published on Apr 15, 2013, Created by Vancouver Film School students Nicholas Ferreira and Dominik Grejc through the VFS Digital Design program."

I find the difference between the two to be refreshing. There is such a wide variety in how everyone chooses to show motion in their designs. Pretty fascinating when you look at how far we've come in such a short period of time.

LINES CREATOR (Motion Graphics)

I found this on YouTube and wanted to share it. It grabbed my attention and I thought it was pretty cool. It's to show how to create lines in After Effects. It's almost completely lines, but is creative too!