MGD 143 - Motion Graphics I

A list of the more popular types
- Gif animations
  - single images that move frame by frame
- Social Media
  - Cinemagraphs - (personal example) still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement occurs
  - Infographics - Animaker, Plotograph
    - Example (Cody Patterson for Air Academy Federal Credit Union)
- Javascript (html 5)
  - programming language that can be read and executed by browsers
  - JQuery
    - A powerful and comprehensive Javascript library that can be read and executed by browsers
- Html 5
  - An extension to html that allows more dynamic functionality that can be read and executed by browsers
- CSS Transitions | example 2 |
  - Creating animations through CSS best browser support
  - Example of simple CSS magic
- Web GL
  - (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics and 2D graphics (consist of control code written in JavaScript and shader code that is executed on a computer's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU))
- Flash
  - Third party technology - requires Adobe Flash player
- Video
  - ...Ok seriously
  - You may see a lot of these as well
- I'm sure there are others out there but you get the point