Motion Illustration: How to Use Animation Techniques to Make Illustrations Move is a new book from Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
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Motion Illustration is the first book specifically for illustrators about moving images. Written with professionals, educators, and students in mind, it examines at the discipline through the lens of GIFs, videos, games, apps, interactive websites, and new technology.
Features:
A historical deconstruction of illustration, the graphic arts, animation, gaming, and technology that allowed illustrators to work with motion.
A contemporary global overview of professional illustration projects created for editorial, advertising, comics, publishing, entertainment, and new media.
An analysis of visual and kinetic motifs commonly used in motion illustration.
A series of exercises and projects ideas that could be used to build a motion portfolio or teach motion to illustration students.
Interviews with Cindy Suen, Yukai Du, Lily Padula, Stephen Vuillemin, Henry Bonsu, and Jakub Javora about how they use motion to create illustration.