Creative Response: Transition Research

I thought it would be best to carry out further research into the ways that text and components are animated in info graphics, to get a better understanding of how I want my own work to be animated. This way I can choose a couple of my favourite styles without having to create masses of tests which would be extremely time consuming.

Care to Click

Social Networks in Numbers

After Effects XYZ

Above are just a few of the animations that I looked at, but I soon found that the ways in which text was animated across different info graphics wasn't all too different. Instead they all seemed to use a handful of techniques. 

Diagram of Example Transitions

The above diagram shows the most common examples of transitions that I found whilst researching. The main techniques seem to include; The change of position of the word, rotation and scaling. These are either used on the sentence as a whole, individual words, or individual letters. I'm going to quickly try out a handful of these to see which I like and can animate the best, and also see if they work well together or whether it would be best to stick to just one technique.