So, it’s not like I’ve been keeping this any big secret, but I’ve been working on a little side project:

OCEBackgrounds

Quite obviously, I’ve set up another blog, hosted on Wordpress (and Revver). I’ll be posting motion backgrounds here.

So…..why? I mean, seriously, what is the point?

Well, like anything in the worlds of design and media, these are not the be all, end all. Dropping a motion background into your animation project doesn’t suddenly make you a professional. If it did, I’d have more jobs. No background, texture, brush, stroke, effect, filter, or preset will suddenly, by itself, make your project better.

Unless that project is a PowerPoint presentation. As a matter of fact, yes, dropping a motion background into a PowerPoint will, by default, make it better. Not much, but it will make it better.

For everything else, though, these are tools. Aids.

I’ll probably be spending some time over the next…future…time….developing some more examples of how these effects can be used. But here’s a for-starters:

OCEntertainment w/ Linear Refract

This is a still made using the Linear Refract motion background. Quite obviously, this is just a still frame. I’ll be bringing you more motion-style demonstrations of how these can be used after I find a method for displaying video samples that I like.

Also, after I accumulate enough fun stuffs, I’ll also be expanding this open library to other motion elements. But that is a secret I’m holding on to for now.

I like open information. And I love, I love, sharing how I did stuff. So I’ll likely be discussing what I’ve learned, and also a lot of the elements and backgrounds I make along the way. So check in every now and again.