Megalongcat | Design in the Presence of Idiocy. -

A long time ago I had created an underground blast effect by just using the shatter plugin and the wiggle expression. I never thought that it was something that people wanted to see until I came across PSDTUTS and AETUTS where users could submit tutorials to people who needed them. I made sure that my idea was truly such before writing up a 22 step tutorial and submitting it to Envato.

Street Fighter IV has gotten it right with its opening cinematic by combinding 3d animation with after effects to create a vividly stunning motion graphics compositing piece. True to the game’s aesthetic, this motion graphics piece serves as a great example of visual inspiration.

The iPhone’s smooth, slick, and minimalistic design is completely devoid of being associated with either gender. Despite it’s rounded edges it doesn’t cater towards the female market nor does large viewing screen it’s abundance of technology/applications cater towards the technical male crowd.

What more of an appropriate time to show something like a Chinese New Year Motion Graphics piece.  I found this while trolling YouTube (not my usual motion graphic haunt) but I came across this piece by urbancr3atures.  
 
“its another Lunar New Year. Our Cr3aturous New Year to everyone. this video is about a simple greeting [...]

John Maeda: Digital Media Design

Why  they are important:  Possibly one the the most influential designers of the century, Maeda’s personal and public works offer insight into not only what design is but what it should aspire to be.   
Biography: John Maeda is a world-renowned graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Lab, and is [...]

 
Typography from Jesper Hauwe on Vimeo.
I’m normally really, really picky with motion graphics that I am a fan of, and I’m even more fickle when it comes to kinetic typography. I found this while trolling youtube for my upcoming post on the Top Ten Worst and Best Kinetic Typography examples of the Spring, but [...]

Megalongcat is now officially wordpress 2.7 But is still having lots of issues. Just bear with me.

Why would a designer or an artist take on a project where they have no idea of what they’re doing?  It would be common sense not to, but below are a list of reasons that seem to trump common sense:
 
 

The job’s payout is too good to resist
You’re fresh out of college / freelancing and are [...]

Last week I posed the question to the design community: What is it that you dislike about your peers? We all have something against those in our own field be it a difference in ethics, habits, etc, but we rarely voice them. I gave designers the chance to voice their concerns about others in the design community and here is what they had to say!