Design Essentials for the Motion Media Artist: A Practical Guide to Principles & Techniques

by Angie Taylor

Master the fundamental concepts and techniques of motion media design so you can apply--and occasionally break--the rules to achieve your communication goals. This authoritative guide presents all of the design essentials in an engaging and inspiring way. Each principle is explained with text, illustration and photography where necessary. An accompanying website will contain any necessary digital files for download, updates and links to other resources.

Genres: Art Design

374 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2010

About the author

Angie Taylor is an art director, animator, illustrator and motion graphic designer. The author of three books; two "Creative After Effects" books (versions 5 and 7) , and "Design Essentials for the motion media artist" published by Focal Press. She is the author of "After Effects CS5 Learn by Video" DVD training title published by video2brain.

Angie studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art (Heriot-Watt University) and has enjoyed a successful, fourteen year career as a Motion Graphic artist producing animation, visual effects and motion graphics for companies such as the BBC and Channel 4 television. She has worked on music videos and films with several renowned directors such as Chris Cunningham and John Williams.

She now runs her own business in the UK helping other creative professionals realize their goals. Angie has provided bespoke training and consultancy to companies including; BBC; Channel 4; Channel 5; Carlton; HTV; B Sky B; MTV."

Reviews

[Ulee ☄︎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book I wish existed and I had many many years ago. The book is a good book to use to build on a foundation of understanding design, photography, videography, animation and motion design. The authors voice comes of as if you asked a friend in the industry to sit down with you for a day and just explain everything in terms you would be able to understand. Most of the information is timeless but there are parts that are dated. For example she mentioned Google Wave, which no longer exist, and she didn't go into depth on 4k Videos.

[Julie]

it's a good book if you are wanting to learn principles.