PostCard

I was asked to design a postcard that would give a first impression on my project.

Hiccups

i have had a few hiccups throughout the making of the animation. Mostly it is just the difference in the timing of each scene, because i made more moves in one and less in the other. I have been able to even the whole animation out buy lengthening sone of the scenes and shorting others. The narration of the animation was rather easy. I was able to record my self on my laptop to I just read along with the animation. Though some of the animation has changed from the story board. The opening scene is completely different and a have changed a couple of the scenes slightly because it worked better while i was doing the animation. over all i enjoyed this we project.

Scenes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Script in Speech Bubbles and My animation studio.

 

Card Characters

Development – Characters

As a am not a fan of drawing and this animation is a paper cutout stop motion I have just went ahead a created my characters, to see how they would look. I done a little simple research on google images to give me an idea on the main elements that would help define my characters. These are some of the images i used to help me.

Kinetic typography videos

Fight club video. This video is well know for the way it illustrates the words.

This is really cool.

Kinetic typography is a really cool technique, but i have been struggling to find it in the paper cut stop motion style, so these are just a couple of very cool digital videos. I am not going to use digital typography. I plan to cut out all of the letters that i wall be needing and actually placing each word in the same style as my animation. I hope to have my story run through the animation as the story goes on.

Kinetic typography – what is it?

Website – http://johnnylee.net/kt/

What is Kinetic Typography
Kinetic typography refers to the art and technique of expression with animated text. Similar to the study of traditional typography of designing static typographic forms, kinetic typography focuses on understanding the effect time has on the expression of text. Kinetic typography has demonstrated the ability to add significant emotive content and appeal to expressive text, allowing some of the qualities normally found in film and the spoken word to be added to static text. Kinetic type has been widely and successfully used in film as well as in television and computer-based advertising. Perceptual psychology research on attention, reading performance, and comprehension has indicated that time-based presentation of text can be used effectively to capture and manipulate a viewer’s attention and in some cases improve overall reading performance.

Kinetic Typography has been explored in the School of Design at CMU since 1996. This site describes the research work done here in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute by Johnny Lee under the direction ofScott Hudson and Jodi Forlizzi.

My story board