Final Kinetic Typography Piece

Here is my final animation, and although I don’t believe it to be my strongest piece of animation to date, it’s something I’m undoubtedly proud of.

Experiments - Kinetic Typography

What I visualised on paper, I wanted to make sure that I was able to create in onscreen.

Here are some experiments/attempts at animating and just generally starting to put things together:

 

 

Vector Images - Kinetic Typography

I had finalised my storyboard and the style of the final animation, and although it was a kinetic type piece I still wanted to add some visual reference to the animation.

Here are all the vector images I intended to use:
 

 

Storyboard to Kinetic Typography

I did a bit of research on the Internet and found an existing piece of kinetic typography to the very same quote.
 

This can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT_nuwm252I

 

I found the animation to be so strong visually that when I came for me to start putting my ideas down on paper, it was strongly influenced by this existing animation. This made it very challenging, but I was adamant that I wanted to try and put my own stamp on things.

This is my completed storyboard, and although there is still reference to this original animation, I tried my best to do it my way.

 

 

Typeface to Kinetic Typography

The second part to this semesters work was to produce a piece of kinetic typography using the typeface I had created.

 

I wanted to find piece of audio that would go well with the typeface that was created. After scouring the Internet I came across a Bruce Lee quote, from his short lived TV series ‘Longstreet’ which was aired back in 1971.

Here is the typed transcript of the bit of audio I wanted to extract to animate the text to:

“If you try to remember you will lose

Empty your mind
Be formless
Shapeless
Like water

Now you put water into a cup

It becomes the cup
Put it into a teapot
It becomes the teapot

Now water can flow

Or creep
Or drip
Or crash

Be water my friend” – Bruce Lee

Because the quote was taken out of a conversation, I found that the audio suddenly stopped and just didn’t sound right. So I searched the Internet and found some royalty free white noise which I could edit into the background and have the audio come to a smooth stop.