Thursday, November 17, 2011

WK12 Movement and Motion

Portal 2 Diagram
From: HalfLife2.net

This is a diagram from the Portal 2 game; there is also an animation of the Aerial Faith Plate in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE3B9uGnVlA . What is interesting about this image is that there is implied movement that is obvious to the viewer. There are arrows and lines that show direction from several launching pads known as Faith Plates. It shows different objects being launched and their direction of movement. The middle-most plate with the largest objects move toward the lower-left part of the diagram, which leads to the title of the diagram: Aerial Faith Plate.

A Feature of the Nintendo Power Magazine.
From: Zeldac.com

This feature from the Nintendo Power Magazine is about the upcoming game The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. The layout of these two pages give an impression of implied motion. The blue streak from Link's sword shows movement and direction with diagonal stress. There is also minor event perception of the sword's implied motion. Someone can think that the sword is slicing the word "Legend" into two parts because of the way the text and image is set up; however, there is no real event, only crooked text and an image in a layer behind the text. Link is the main feature of this game, because he is the main character; therefore, it is only right to catch the eye of the reader with him and his sword, leading in implied motion to "YOU ARE LEGEND."

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