designing motion

Designing Motion

EVENTS!MAKING THINGS!DESIGN!

Designing Motion

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with great

POWERcomes

GREATresponsibility

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Animation for UI

OPEN, CLOSE!BUTTONS, LINKS!BASED ON USER INPUT

FADES

Animation for Experience

BREAK IT DOWN

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So So Many Options!How do we decide?

What are you imitating?

Metaphor

Light as a feather

Stiff as a board

Weight & Physics

The idea that various aspects of the character’s attributes come together to just feel “right”.

Appeal

“... it’s easy to forget that when you’re building a game you’re not just building a set of rules or a pile of content. You’re crafting and experience...

Animation happens to be my weapon of choice to achieve this”  

[Mika Mobile blog post]

The internet is not a cartoon.

(usually)

Yeah,I changed my mind…

We kinda care about our code…

Hi, I’m a link!

Hi, I’m a link!

Hi, I’m a link!

YAY! New Things!

BOO! New Things!

Transference

Time Signatures

and with that…

THANKS!Files & Slides:

valhead.com/WDD2011

Let’s Chat:

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