Lecture

For Type in Motion. Motion as a series of time-specific events

Specifically: Motion is the illusion of sequential images. The more images, the smoother the motion. The shorter the duration of the image OR the greater the number of images in a sequence, the slower it appears to be moving (the converse is also true). Images can also appear to be moving if their density is altered.

Technical

  • Read how to make a GIF animation in Photoshop.

Preparation 

  • Online, look up the work of Eadweard Muybridge.
  • Select a large-size of one his sequential images and have it printed.
  • Cut out the Images and assemble them to make an animated flip book. 

Session 1

  • Decide on how to make a moving type animation: storyboard an animation by tracing the ligature on the sheet from Week 7 (or make a new sheet from another ligature) and work through its motion to combine, its alpha value, or some other form of time-based evolution.

Homework

  • Continue to refine the design on the animation, point it by hand. Cut out the cels an assemble to make a flip book.

Session 2

  • Critique of the hand-drawn flip book.

Homework

  • Bring the animation into the computer. Make a color chart for the animation.

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