Moving type…
May 11th, 2007 by Simon
I’ve got this weird obsession with type at the moment - moving type in particular.
It’s like trying to learn a new art. Not that I’ve actually learnt to do anything yet.
But I keep on seeing things and thinking: “I like that. Wouldn’t presentations be more interesting if they flowed like that, rather than being all powerpoint-y and dull?!”
This film on the ‘Encyclopedia of Life‘ does it quite nicely - in a similar way to that Web 2.0 film that was going around a while back - posted here.
There’s also the treatment they use for the closing titles of of “An Inconvenient Truth” - which is my favourite one to date.
Anyone actually know how it’s done - is it in the realms of ‘do it at home on your Mac’ or more in the ‘that’s hella-difficult’ category of learning to do something? Any resources that are great to learn this stuff? etc…
I don’t know personally, but I’ll bet Ben Terrett has an idea - Mr Noisy Decent Graphics:
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
don’t know about the text, but the music is definitely made by the offspring of jean michel jarre and enya.
This is really cool. The animations, digital elements, moving type and imagery, the fast zooms…pretty slick. Articulates a narrative that would otherwise be a bit dry in a compelling way. I like how video on the web, YouTubeology, brings something like this to life.
…and its the anniversary of Helvetica, so hooray for Type and all those obsessed with Type!