Stumble Test 1

This video shows the original test that I created when trying to work out the best way to animate the word.



Here I had a play with the letters falling from the top, however after considering the idea of a drunk person and how they would react I'm going to animate them coming in from the left hand side of the screen. It isn't logical for them to fall from the top, so I'm going to move the letter forms from the left.

Crime Drama Animations

This is a post that I put up a while ago but I've decided to change the post date as I think that it's really relevant to what were looking at.

Now most people that know me would proably be the first to say that I am a bit of a TV addict and one of my favourite types of programmes are dramas, especially crime ones.

One thing that I really like about Drams/Crime Dramas are that generally they have really cool looking tiltes or promos made for them. I've put a few examples below from a few different TV shows.

Monk Titles:


Hallmark Channel

In this video I like the colours that have been used. Somethimes I think that a limited colour pallete is sometimes more effective and balanced than using lots of different colours. One thing about this promo which works well is the way that simple images/symbols are used within the typography. For example, the use of the lips and the fly. Aswell as using the imagery elements suggested such as, ' the bug zig zagging' are infered in the quik jolts of the camera from side to side.

House:


Hallmark Channel

This is promo for a meidcal drama called House. Something that I think both the videos above do extremely well is use humor in order to attract attention and keep peoples intrest.

I especially like the way that in the two videos shown above typography has been incorporated within the animations. The typography is used as a narrative, along with the audio in order to give the piece context.

CSI New York Opening Titles:


http://www.youtube.com

Iv'e seen these titles many times and found them interesting, even if not just for the use of music! However one thing that I find most exciting about this set of titles ,is the way that video footage has been integrated with the use of animation.

I made the post the other day about liking the way that in composite work you are able to mix lots of different types of media and I think that this is a good example of how when done right it works.

Kinetic Type

Here is a video that I found on the internet. I've posted this because I think that it's a good example of using typography, especially the way that they phonetically represent the type.


http://vimeo.com/2860622

Stewie kinetic type

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDYq7_yHLYk&feature=related

Kinetic Type

This is a video that I found on the internet using kinetic type.


http://www.youtube.com/

12 seconds into the video the word 'just' is represented with a very fast paced animated section which represents the nature of this word, in its context well. The thing that I like about this piece is the way that the words are represented phonetically.

This image below may look like a 'big blur', however it just illustrates the nature of the word:

Polaroid

This is an image created by a photographer using the design of a Polaroid-photo as a way of presenting the piece.

http://www.photoshopuser.com/
When I found this image on the internet the first thing that came into my mind is that this could be turned into an animation. Looking at the image above I can imagine that the women could move the photos around, as her hands and arms have broken out if the frames.

I think that this could be something really interesting to have a play with and see how content within a 'framed space', (i.e. the polaroid), could interact with its surroundings.

Stop Motion Animation

Here are two similar videos of some stop motion pieces created around the idea of a t-shirt. I think that both are simple, but effective pieces in their own rights. The first animation is titled 'Human Flip book', which I think is an interesting description of the piece because effectively that is exactly what it is!

Human Flip book:

http://www.youtube.com/


http://www.youtube.com/

When I stumbled across these pieces, I thought that is was an interesting way of presenting a piece of animation work. By integrating the animation on the t-shirts within live action gives the piece more depth.