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Countdown and timer graphics look like the simplest job in motion design: some numbers get smaller until they reach zero. In practice they are one of the few gr...
Whiteboard-style animation is the look of a hand, or an invisible pen, drawing black line art onto a white surface while a narrator explains an idea. Each line...
Adobe Character Animator is software that drives layered character puppets in real time. A performer sits in front of a webcam and a microphone, and the puppet...
Loading animations are the spinners, progress bars, skeleton screens and small looping motifs an interface shows while it waits for something: a server response...
Microinteraction animation is the small, fast motion an interface produces in direct response to something a person does: a button that depresses when tapped, a...
Scroll-triggered animation is motion on a web page that starts, or progresses, as the visitor scrolls. A headline fades up as it enters the viewport, a product...
Scoping animation projects is the work of deciding, in writing and before anyone opens an animation file, exactly what a project includes: the script, the story...
A motion reel is a short showreel that presents an animator's or a studio's best work to prospective clients, producers and art directors. It is the single piec...
Animating to voiceover means building the picture around a recorded narration track, so that every reveal, cut and camera move lands with the words it illustrat...
Automating After Effects with scripts means handing the repetitive parts of motion work to code: renaming hundreds of layers, stamping version numbers into comp...
Most editing teams hit the same wall sooner or later. The cut is locked, the client wants a name title on the second speaker, a stat callout at 1:40 and an end...
Time remapping is the technique of changing the speed of a composition or clip over time: slowing a moment down, speeding through another, holding a single fram...
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