Oct 17, 2011

Tips & Ideas for D.I.Y. Motion Graphics










This is a spin-off book of "Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 100". Let’s learn from the the creators! This book teaches you know-how utilizing ideas, great tips from the professionals.Today, there are many motion graphics teemingly, what a creator really needs is “idea” and “DIY spirit” to accomplish great works. The popular creators from "Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 100" will show you their making processes and ideas of various types of Motion Graphics such as classic illustration animation, motion capture, gravitation computing in 3D software, and programming works.

Editor: KURANDO FURUYA
ISBN 978-4-86100-791-0
Retail Price: 2,800 yen + tax
Format : 182×257 mm, 204 pages ( Full Color ), Softcover with jacket
Release date: 25th October 2011

Contents
"Basic DIY"
1 Frash-ish Animation / Character Animation Synchronize music ( Shota Sakamoto )
2 Hand-drawing Animation / Simple and Fetish Style ( Yoriko Mizushiri )
3 cutout animation / DIY at home ( Mari Inaba )
4 Motion Capture / Low-cost Kinect motion capture ( Sota Sugahara )
5 GIF Animation / benefit of GIF Animation ( Yuya Yamaguchi ) 6 Motion Graphics / Logo to motion ( TYMOTE )

"Intermediate - Applied DIY"
7 Water-color Animation / Animation made of CG and a bit of water-color ( Ryo Hirano )
8 morphing Animation / ideas and morphing ( Koh Kamejima )

"Advance - Special techniques DIY : If you try, you will find out you can do it"
9 Motion Graphics Collage / low fidelity motion graphics using with data moshing ( Sou Ootsuki )
10 postrecording / ultimate DIY, challenging postrecording of motion graphics ( AC-bu )
11 Simple 3D Motion Graphics / utilizing textures of Simple 3D ( Takuya Hosogane )
12 CG with texture / let's create CG which has textures with a difference. ( TEAMLAB Inc. )
13 VJ / VJ using not only PC but video cartridge ( VIDEO BOY )

"Teamwork DIY - What team work can accomplish"
14 Ustream / Let's broad your work through internet ( Space dept. of Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun )
15 Planning on motion graphics / produce music video ( Gabin Ito )
16 Studio MV shooting / MV made by flash of a camera ( Masatsugu Nagasoe, Masaki Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu )
17 live-action and CG / facility utilizing CG texture maximum ( Koichiro Tsujikawa )

"Techinical DIY - Essentials of programming"
18 Motion Graphic Programming / Programming to generate theme of motion graphics ( Kazumasa Teshigawara )
19 Motion Graphics Programming / Synchronize music and motion graphics by programming ( Takashi Yamaguchi )

20 Let's broadcast your original motion graphics.