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Motion design · Cover recreation
Animated
Book Covers
Three classic book covers rebuilt as looping animated pieces. Each animation turns one visual metaphor into a short motion sequence while preserving the clarity and impact of a printed cover.
Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray
01 · Concept
Motion begins with meaning.
The movement is not decoration added after the cover is finished. Each loop grows from the central idea of the book, making the metaphor visible without sacrificing editorial readability.
Transformation
Kafka's cover turns the intrusion of the insect into the central visual event.
Ignition
Fahrenheit 451 builds its loop around the book as an object ready to burn.
Corruption
Dorian Gray uses reveal and decay to connect portrait, identity and consequence.
02 · Motion system
Built as readable loops.
Every sequence begins from a clear cover, introduces one controlled disruption and returns to a composition that can restart without a visible break.
01
Anchor
The cover reads before it moves.
02
Disturb
One element breaks the still image.
03
Transform
The visual metaphor becomes an event.
04
Reset
The composition closes into a loop.
03 · Editorial discipline
Movement without losing the cover.
Typography, hierarchy and title recognition remain stable while illustration carries the animation. That restraint keeps each piece legible as editorial design rather than turning it into an unrelated motion poster.
First a cover. Then a moving idea.
03Classic titles
01Visual metaphor per cover
∞Seamless playback
04 · Contribution
Printed covers brought into motion.
I recreated the original cover designs in Photoshop and animated them in After Effects. My contribution focused on image treatment, timing and final looping, translating the printed compositions into short motion pieces while preserving their editorial clarity.