WHAT IS MOTION DESIGN?

During this second semester in my Contemporary Media class, we will be learning about 2D Motion Design, it will help us learn more about short films and cartoons. It will help improve our knowledge on Motion Design and as soon as we're finished with knowing every step of 2D Design we will move onto 3D Design.

This semester, we will be learning about 2D Motion Design with an Adobe program called Flash Player 2.0

Today's assignment includes researching and defining 2D motion design concepts. According to Wikipedia, the definition of motion design is the subset of graphic design it has the same principles in a filmmaking of a video or production context through the use of animation, or film techniques. Some examples i saw were starting off with some simple drawings and animating them to either move, talk, or just stay put while the background has something going on.

This is the movie that i will take pointers off of, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpkLkIZeccY

This is the list of the different type of examples i found:
On Vimeo I searched up 2D animation
Also Onto Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJLtujW6FY

Now that I'm familiar with motion design, I'm excited to see what i can design in the near future.