> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Flickery Nonsense for the Overworked Motion Designer - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/flickery-nonsense-for-the-overworked-motion-designer/ - Published: 2015-09-15T14:03:54.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:30:48.000Z - Description: For motion designers with clients demanding flashy movement that is in fact total nonsense, Vancouver-based art director and motion designer Peter Quinn created a handy set of 100 pre-made fake user interface (UI) animations. - Author: Allison Meier - Tags: Art, Design, GIF, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3) ![Meaningless Sliders (all images courtesy PQ FUI Toys)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui06.gif) Meaningless Sliders (all images courtesy PQ FUI Toys) For motion designers with clients demanding flashy movement that is in fact total nonsense, Vancouver-based art director and motion designer [Peter Quinn](http://www.peterqu.in/?ref=hyperallergic.com) created a handy set of 100 pre-made fake user interface (UI) animations. “PQ FUI toys is meant for those situations where you just have to drop in some Fake UI bullshit to make something look a pinch more interesting, adding a little sparkle, or just saving yourself 10 minutes,” Quinn told Hyperallergic. The UI is basically the tools with which a user navigates a digital device, whether it be the icons on your iPhone or the scrolling functions on this very website. The PQ FUI Toys, available [on Aescripts](http://aescripts.com/pq-fui-toys/?ref=hyperallergic.com) for dragging and dropping into After Effects, include such high-action gibberish as “nice, but useless circle,” frenetic “pointless graphs,” and even some *Knight Rider* talking car red light action. Quinn explained that after 10 years working in busy agencies, he had his own hoard of ready-made animation that helped keep his productivity high, with characters, sound, and other “flickery UI jazz” that he found more and more in demand. “Nowadays you see this type of thing everywhere,” he said. “It’s its own sub-genre of motion design; at one end you’ve got wonderful, well-conceived, could-actually-work-in-real-life user interface graphics that are not only mesmerizing design, but also useful storytelling devices.” He cited as an example [Jayse Hansen’](http://jayse.tv/v2/?ref=hyperallergic.com)s graphics for the *Iron Man* films, where the futuristic controls for the Iron Man superhero suit were actually functional and had meaning, although they were fictional. However on the other end, there are the merely interesting dots and lines, and wildly spinning “bunch of knobs,” that serve no purpose aside from visual flair. Below is a selection of the fake user interface animations Quinn shared with Hyperallergic as GIFs. ![Interesting Dots and Lines](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui04.gif) Interesting Dots and Lines ![A Bunch of Knobs](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui15.gif) A Bunch of Knobs ![Compression Wave](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui23.gif) Compression Wave ![Woop-Woop](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui1.gif) Woop-Woop ![Shoop-Shoop Lines](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui08.gif) Shoop-Shoop Lines ![Radar Thing](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui07.gif) Radar Thing ![Knight Rider](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui05.gif) Knight Rider ![Hexagon Things!](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui03.gif) Hexagon Things! ![Figure 8](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui01.gif) Figure 8 ![Square Dance](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui09.gif) Square Dance ![Stabilize your rear deflectors, watch for enemy fighters...](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui10.gif) Stabilize your rear deflectors, watch for enemy fighters… ![Atomic motion](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/pqfui14.gif) Atomic motion *The PQ FUI Toys by Peter Quinn are available* [*on Aescripts*](http://aescripts.com/pq-fui-toys/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*