Category: Motion Graphics

Featured Honours Project: Suleyman the Magnificent by Johnny Viola

For his honours project, Johnny Viola investigated the use of motion graphics to increase engagement with history.  The visuals used updated versions of  colours and styles found in paintings of the period, giving the animation a rich texture that adds to the storytelling.  Johnny also won a prize for this poster showcasing the work at the Honours poster day.

From sketch to final images

Visual Development – from sketch to final images

Poster explaining the background to the project

The poster explains the process Johnny followed to create the final motion graphic.

You can see more of Johnny’s work here –johnnyviola.com

This post is part of a series celebrating the work the year 4 students have created for their honours projects.  Thanks to Johnny for allowing us to feature this work.

Featured project : Disintegration by Rocio Camacho

Rocio from year 3 Digital Media and Interaction Design  created this motion graphics piece on the theme of disintegration.

She says “I decided to explore what disintegration suggested to me personally, and landed on a theme of our current view of events. Through the eyes of Social Media we can see what happens in the world almost in real-time but ironically this detaches us from the events greatly. We become spectators and have come to a point where posting a picture or changing your profile photo seems like an active participation in solving some of the world’s biggest problems, and where we also get to choose which ones to represent and which to not. I felt that I, as much as people around me, have fallen into the false perspective that this is doing enough and how this is quite nonsensical. “

Her characters are carefully designed to be simple yet show emotion and she has integrated live action and photographs with the animation.

You can see more of Rocio’s work in her portfolio here – https://rcpds.weebly.com/

Many thanks to Rocio for allowing us to share her work. The  Motion Graphics module is run by Dr. Richard Hetherington and Andrew McKelvey.

Featured Project: Motion Graphics by Barna Imre

Barna Imre,  one of our year 3 Digital Media and Interaction Design students, describes his motion graphics projects as “kafkaesque nonsense”.  The piece has a strong visual style and challenges viewers to look a little more deeply at his work to discover some of the cultural references within.

This work was created for Motion Graphics, one of the year 3 modules on the Digital Media and Interaction Design courses.  The module is run  by Dr. Richard Hetherington and Andrew McKelvey.  Look out for more great work from our students soon.

Many thanks to Barna for allowing us to share his work.

Featured Project: Under the Weather by Murray Paterson

This Motion Graphic was created by Year 3 Digital Media Global Student Murray Paterson.

Murray says “The visual Inspiration behind Under the Weather was drawn from tiger aspect studio’s “Charlie and Lola”, where they create this really playful rough cut collage aesthetic by mixing hand drawn elements with chopped up photographs. I thought it would help give the piece a nice, light hearted kind of atmosphere. As for the inspiration for the story, my walk to uni had a big part to play really. For a month or so before the piece was due, walking through Bruntsfield links was comically windy. I was nearly getting blown off my feet day to day, plastic bags were terrorising civilians and i imagined men with toupees refusing to leave their homes. I found it all quite funny and thought it would be appropriate subject matter for our brief themed: ‘the environment’. “

Murray is off to Australia on placement in a few weeks – hope that the weather is better behaved for him there!

This work was created for Motion Graphics, one of the year 3 modules on the Digital Media and Interaction Design courses.  The module is run  by Dr. Richard Hetherington and Andrew McKelvey.  Look out for more great work from our students soon.

Many thanks to Murray for allowing us to share his work.