Week 1: Shape Animation References...

Here are some stuff that can give you some ideas... Of course I cannot compete with a team of 24 students doing research, if you find anything cool that is worth sharing, let me know and I will put it on the blog. Check the right side of the blog to see useful links as well

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - 10,000 Horses from ISO FILMS on Vimeo.

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - Synthesise from ISO FILMS on Vimeo.

Shape and Sound from Studio Cymbol on Vimeo.

Shape Experiment from Aimee Lutz on Vimeo.

What was done a few decades ago... without after effects. Interesting though!
Norman MacLaren is one of the pionneer of motion graphics and stop-motion, if you are interested about this field you have to watch more of his work.



You could see on this one how he expressed the sound (electronic music from the 60s!!!) though abstract shapes...

Particle madness...

One example of how they use particles...

Stunning Starbuck's MV/Ad

I cross over this really nice advertising using typography and several techniques seen during the class. Have a look!

Stop motion + 3D + 2D After Effects

Get mad and look at this:

Kinetics tutorials

Kinetic Typography is a big fashion nowadays... Combining it with some of the effects you have learn during the typography and After Effects would be a good plus!

Here are some extra tutorials that could really help you improve your work.

This one is interesting too, check it out here



Basic Kinetic Typography tutorial, very USEFUL!


Very advanced... For those who like challenges: Click here to the tutorial page

Title and tipography in AE... some examples

Different good examples of Kinetic Typography












Interesting use of fonts here, quite exciting!



And for something completely different but always makes me cry:

A useful software... MPEG Streamclip

It's free, it's cool and you will never live without it again: Mpegstreamclip allows to extract from DVD, VCD, VOB files, almost any other formats you can think of and allow you to convert it to the format you want... So for instance if you plan to do your portfolio, you might want to extract your work from your previous Video DVDs (unless you were smart enough to keep your original editing...) and convert to DV format... Well our little friends Mpegstreamclip can do these kind of tasks... and it's free (Life should be more often like this)
Try it, Use it, LOVE IT!

For Mac and for Evil Windows too.