Customer Reviews

Motion by Design

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"Motion by Design" is a book about motion graphics. One might expect that a DVD enclosed with such a book might be chock full of tremendous examples of cool stuff. Not the case. The dvd is a mess. The disc is hard to navigate, videos play as windows within menus, NOT full screen, but that's made worse by the huge copyright super on the frames and an unanavoidable narration track. I feel ripped off by a promise unkept. Don't waste your cash on this ripoff.

qualified motion samples from all media with a short text explanation.
That's ok for me. But what's the problem with the DVD interface guys? You can not play all so you have to select each title from a long list, again again, its pain. The interface design so cheesy, low-end DVD for hi-end content. You can only watch a part of some long samples such as music videos, shame... 5 stars for the book not DVD.

I enjoyed the examples contained within the book and publication values, but as others have mentioned the dvd menu is horrible. There are other motion graphics titles that are better on the market. I can't recommend this one mainly because of the dvd.

Good book for inspiration, but the dvd is just ok. The dvd automatically opened my Mac's dvd player at full screen - which was quite pixelated. You would have expected a dvd showcasing innovative motion graphics to look less honkey-tonk. It was as if the publishers thought about producing the dvd as an afterthought.

This great book comes with a wonderful dvd. It is very useful in my career. I just wish there were more tutorials on the subject

Great book for getting inspired, dvd was a bit off a let down the quality isn't the best. But this is a great book for people that need inspiration and admire great work.

If you plan to get this book for inspiration, it looks pretty good. But the DVD is almost worthless as the navigation makes it hard to watch and then the actual examples have text copyright information that is very distracting. Feels more like you paid for stock artwork but still get the white lines over the art. Very lame. There are probably some better inspiration material on the web. The packaging on this book is nice but don't expect too much in terms of content.

This is an excellent expose on the the History and development of Motion Design. A must have for any student or Motion Design Practioner. The comments by Kyle Cooper and Dan Pappalardo are particularly profound. The author provides a terrific range and history but fails to mention (2) key pionners in the development of the art and craft prior to Kyle Cooper: Pittard Sullivan of the United States and Gedeon of France. Despite these ommissions the book is required reading for anyone interested in the art of motion design narrative.