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Motion & broadcast

Animated, time-based work: titles, broadcast, video.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under medium & production: what technology shaped it?

styles make it: 53
as a defining choice: 11
as a usual one: 14
now and then: 28
avoid it: 0

Styles defined by it 11

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

UPA & Cartoon Modern1944–1960 · North AmericaThe modern cartoon of United Productions of America (UPA) and the 1950s films, commercials and books it inspired.
Zagreb School of Animated Film1954–1980 · Southern Europe, Central EuropeThe modernist animation of Zagreb Film's Studio for Animated Film, grown from reduced-animation advertisements of 1954-1955 and named the 'Zagreb school' by Georges Sadoul and André Martin after Cannes 1958.
Chinese National-Style Animation (Shanghai Animation Film Studio)1956–1989 · East AsiaThe 'national style' of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, which turned from Disney and Soviet models to Chinese media: Peking-opera masks and movement, paper-cut and folded-paper figures, mural and New Year print colour and, from 1960, ink-wash painting set in motion after Qi Baishi and Li Keran.
Demoscene Graphics (Cracktros, Demos & Text-Mode Art)1985–present · Northern Europe, Central Europe, Western Europe, North America, Global / networkedThe graphics of the demoscene, a mainly European community of coders, graphicians and musicians that grew from the intros software crackers added to pirated Commodore 64 and Amiga games in the mid-1980s.
Fantasy User Interface (FUI) & Sci-Fi HUD1999–present · North America, Western Europe, Global / networkedFantasy user interfaces are the screen graphics of films and series: computer screens, holograms and helmet HUDs made to be watched for a few seconds, not used.
Glitch Art & Datamosh Graphics2001–present · Global / networked, Western Europe, Central Europe, Northern Europe, North AmericaAn art and design practice that makes digital failure the picture.
Danmaku Bullet-Comment Overlay2006–present · East AsiaThe bullet-comment layer of Japanese and Chinese video sites, begun on Niconico in December 2006 and taken up by AcFun and Bilibili in 2008–2009.
Analog Horror Graphics2015–present · North America, Global / networkedA horror genre, mostly on YouTube, that tells its stories through imitation television and home-video graphics rather than actors: emergency-alert screens, station IDs, public-service, educational and instructional tapes, set between the 1960s and early 2000s.
Kinetic Typography & Variable Type2016–present · Global / networked, North America, Western EuropeTypography as the moving image: letterforms that stretch, squash, rotate and morph along variable-font axes, loop seamlessly and cut to the beat of music, used for identities, social-media posters and digital out-of-home screens.
VTuber Avatar and Stream Graphics2016–present · East Asia, Global / networkedThe graphic kit of virtual YouTubers, streamers who perform behind an animated anime-style character instead of their own face.
Lo-fi Anime Aesthetic2017–present · Global / networked, Western Europe, North America, East AsiaThe look of YouTube's 24/7 lo-fi hip hop streams.

Styles that often use it 14

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 28

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Web & CSSin 30 of 53
3D renderin 22 of 53
Gradientsin 29 of 53
Technological & futuristin 23 of 53
Illusion of depthin 27 of 53
Chrome & 3D renderin 14 of 53

Other choices in medium & production