An alternative way of animating infographics

Most infographics has historically been purely vector-graphics based. This is partly due to the advantages of vector graphics, but also due to the preference of designers for vector-graphics.



Beautiful Day by visual effects guru sénaphe (sébastien périer) shows what can be achieved using photographs instead.

Inspirational Youtube-Videos for my Upcoming Infographical Video

MINI E

• 2008 ROAD & TRACK MAGAZINE
• 2008 Mini E - Listen to the Silence
• 2008 Wheels Mag: Mini E first drive
• 2010 MINI Vodcasts from Miami Beach
• 2010 MINI E Race

GM Volt

• 2007 Bob Lutz about the Volt
• 2007 Bob Lutz on the Volt
• 2007 EcoGeeky Bob on the Volt
• 2008 Chevy Volt Overview
• 2008 Bob Lutz discusses driving the pre-prototype Chevy Volt
• 2009 Going for a ride in a pre-production Chevy Volt with chief engineer Frank Weber    
• 2007 Drivetrain Animation
• 2008 Chevy Volt Interior Walkthrough
• 2008 Chevrolet Volt 2011
2007 Low-Res-Animation
• 2008 another Low-Res-Animation
• 2010 3D-Model
• 2008 Chevy Volt Commercial 
• 2008 High-Res Animation (long) (official GM)
• 2010 High-Res Animation (official GM version)
• 2010 How the Chevrolet Volt Works (official GM)
• 2008 GM's Plan for the Bridge Loans
• 2010 GM Volt (r)evolution commercial

Nissan LEAF

• 2010 Batteries
• 2010 Braking 
• 2010 Nissan LEAF: The New Way
• 2010 Nissan LEAF: Commercial
• 2010 Lance Armstrong on the Nissan LEAF
• 2010 LEAF animation (Medium-Res)
• 2009 Nissan LEAF - Electric Vehicle Battery Animation
• 2010 Nissan LEAF: the total solution
• 2010 Nissan LEAF: about the car
• 2010 Nissan LEAF: Trailer

Tesla Roadster

• 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport vs. 2011 Porsche
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Other

• 2009 Better Place Electric Car Plan for Denmark #1
• 2010 Renault ZE - Piacere di Guida
• 2010 Renault ZE - Il motore elettrico
• 2009 Motor Animation
• 2007 Rio Tinto Borax operation
• 2007 Tarong Coal mine
• 2007 Rio Tinto: Our Strengths
• 2007 BHP Promo (Mid-Res)

Possible Beginnings for my Redesigned Video

At least the experimental video should look like something along the lines of the screenshot by Freddie or one of the fake GUI by Coleran. Question is how much work will it take?

Useful Websites for AfterEffects and Animated Videographics

This is just a brief listing of useful sites for my own use, hope somebody will find it useful too ;-)

• Creative Cow
• Ayatoweb
• Digitalvideoschnitt 
• SlashCam
• ProVideo Coalition 
• AE Tuts
• Video-Copilot (Tutorials) 
• Red-Giant-Software
• pxlexeyes
• Greyscalegorilla

 Some blogs dedicated to Info/Videographics:

• Video-Copilot (Blog)
• Infosthetics
• Motionographer

Some interesting websites who publish Videographics on a regular basis :

• Economist
• NY Times (Video), e.g. Portrait of Mariano Riviera
• NY Times (Interactive)
• BarackObama.com

And then there is Freddie:

• Freddies Video Channel (Finished Video)
• Freddies Behind-the-Scenes Channel (Tutorial)

Or Mark Coleran

• Blog
• Portfolio