If that sounds familiar, this month's project is for you. Funky backgrounds Needless to say, it's important to start with a cool background image to build on. Also check out Velocity plus Naked and Scared from their Contexture series.
Funk CD are already full of circles, lines, grids, and other stuff, which are crying out for motion.
So rather than use a busy image, we searched for a simple image to serve as a base and built our own animated stuff on top. The busier images still provide inspiration, and many of the textures used are included as individual images. Figure 1 -Starting with a cool base image always helps, particularly if it has depth and a strong design feature for radiating circles. Until recently, there was no easy way to create an animated circle that maintained the same width throughout. You could animate a circle created in Illustrator, for instance, but scaling would affect the thickness.