Moving pictures
I had lunch with an illustrator friend at Society yesterday. We sat for nearly three hours talking about the biz, which included animation. I don’t aspire to be an animator at all, but I do love the idea of illustrations that move. Back in December I did 20+ spots for Golf DIgest’s iPad app launch including some that had very simple moving parts like this:
As simple as this was, it was very exciting. It changed the way I went at the sketches and it felt different and new. I did this a couple of months ago:
And the whole time I was wishing they had an app version or I could do something like this for the web:
I do hope that more of this is coming soon. After all the gloom and doom about the death of print and what that would mean for illustration, here is this wonderful possibility for what it could actually mean for illustration.
