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How to put motion on a static page

How to put motion on a static page

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How to put motion on a static page

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- Hi everyone, John McWade, we live in world that's full of motion, it seems like almost everything is moving almost all of the time, so when you're designing a static page, whether it's a print page or web screen, that doesn't move. How do we create on that page, a sense of movement? There are several ways, let's have a look. This simplest way is to use a photograph that was taken of something in motion, race horses, in this case, the blur emphasizes that motion. But you look at this, and you get the sense that these horses are moving, that's the simplest thing. The dancer has three kinds of movement, one is that she's obviously moving, two is that she has these physical lines, that convey movement, and three, what's coming off of here are also phantom lines, her line of sight, the line her arm is facing, the line her leg makes. And our eyes will follow those lines, so when we add her to a design, we get the energy of her movement, in front of the static type, which creates a dynamic…

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