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What’s Fresh - Get Your Trend On

This was one of the more eye-candy-packed talks at the recent motion09 conference, with Michael Waldron and Erik van der Wilden of nailgun* giving numerous examples of what they felt were current hot trends in motion graphic design and execution. We’re working on a report of some of the more interesting sessions we attended at motion09, but in the meantime, here are a dozen of my favorite examples from their talk:

Live Action Integration

Ingenious ways to combine live action with imaginary worlds:

World of Typography

Typography is coming back (yay!). But it’s not just about titles and lower thirds; they also discussed type as structure, or as 3D elements in a complex scene.

Low Tech vs. High Tech

The look is low-tech, but execution is actually high-tech, requiring a lot of skill to pull off:

but wait, there’s more…

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