What is Motion Design?

During this second semester in my Contemporary media class we will be learning about Motion design. Motion Design is a community of designers, animators, illustrators, and all types of digital artists. A group designed to connect motion designers, spur imaginations, help fix problems, provide constructive feedback, and literally anything else you can imagine. Motion is movement. Design is is to construct according to plan. Some examples of advertising, video games, apps cartoon movies ect.

Todays assignment includes researching and designing 2d motion design concepts. According to Wikipedia, Motion graphics are digital footage and/or animations technology to create the illusion of motion or rotatory and are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects.

Here's a great example, see how the picture looks like it was moving but then suddenly pauses? this here was a video on 2d graphic designing showing an example of what motion design is. (a moving picture)

Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_graphics