Day 4 of 60-days-collecting-awesome-motion-design-references I am gathering cool references for my own work as a Motion Designer, and this one caught my eye today. I love the way that this one mixes typography, video, photos, and shapes. It does a great job with the mixed media style, and the transitions flow super nicely. The VO and sound design are also great; it guides you through the video and keeps you focused on it. This was done by the team at Fern for Mezo.

beautiful work, this is so inventive & unique!

@LottieFiles hit me up to create five animations using their new Lottie Creator - an SVG animation tool with state machine capabilities, giving you the ability to make your animations interactive.

First one's a gradient stress test 🌈 I wanted to create a glass sphere that actually feels dimensional, with color shifting inside and outside as it rolls 🔮

Vector-based gradients are usually where things get messy - flat colors, harsh transitions, zero depth. So I layered multiple blurred color fields with varying transparencies to fake that soft, glowing quality you'd normally only get from raster work.

More from this series coming soon! 📂 Animation files here

The glow feels spot on.