From the course: Motion Graphic Design: Project Planning and Development
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Using photography to develop the project style
From the course: Motion Graphic Design: Project Planning and Development
Using photography to develop the project style
- [Instructor] Once you've come up with an idea and a story for your animation or motion graphic design, the next stage is to come up with some ideas for the visual style and the imagery that you're going to use in the animation. Now it's very difficult to come up with imagery and ideas just looking at a blank page, so I usually start by looking at some reference images. And in this resources folder here in Curio, you can see my reference image that I want to use as inspiration for this animation. I want it to be about the journey from Brighton to Creative Cabin. Now Brighton has got a very iconic pier that everyone knows, so I think making use of the pier is a really good way to start the journey. Everyone will recognize we're starting in Brighton. Now I've downloaded this image. This is a reference on the image, and the great thing about Curio is I can drag and drop images directly into Curio from the web and it will retain a link to the original image. So it makes it very easy for…
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