The artist has created this website in collaboration with Neal Fletcher (designer and developer of Cliff Studios – http://www.cliff.studio/) and Richard Nicholls ( a freelance designer with a focus on strategy – https://designedbyrich.co.uk/info/)
The archive brings together over 500 pieces of typographic inspiration. I find it useful as the site useful in recreating a destressed/rugged type look as some of the reference material featured will focus on at times only one letter.
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Smooth motion like a morphing animation. I do like the ‘bump’ easing. I do like the motion in a static mockup. The design when I break it down has an image/photo of an object, a solid fill of a shape with a blur, a glass shift effect, a data mosh type feel when transitioning.
Got my hands dirty with ai creation tool Mid Journey. I found encouragement by a video from School of Motion with guest speaker John Lepore which broke down this amazing tool.
My early test inspired by the painterly style of van gogh. You’re given 25 free images with mid journey before paying. You’re experiments at this free trial stage are in a channel called ‘newbie’ where you and others are experimenting.
To start you type ‘/imagine’ then your words. I’ve noticed varying outputs when few words are used and when a paragraph is used. There’s no hard and fast rules but the ai surprises me.
Here’s my examples below
By Chromosphere studio
I love the detail on the Ben day dots. The design is exquisite and the layout feels very pleasing, they make use of the circle as a match cut/frame of reference. I like the animation it’s subtle but feels very true to life. Especially with the shark and water insect.
Beatgrid
Is a helpful tool which gives you key frame to match your animation to music. It works by either tapping/clicking to the beat or typing in the bpm and it will generate the key frames/markers for you
https://help.battleaxe.co/freebies/beatgrid.html
Timelord
Is a script for after effects and integrated with photoshop and animate to help with frame by frame animation workflow
Freelance character animator Chris Mayne put together a spreadsheet of job openings worldwide. The collective community of freelancers help to keep it updated with the most latest job openings.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eR2oAXOuflr8CZeGoz3JTrsgNj3KuefbdXJOmNtjEVM/edit#gid=0
I heard about this from the forum ‘Mixed Parts’.
Marketa Lazarová František Vláčil 1967 Czechoslovakia/ Cloister Cemetery in the Snow (1817-9) – Caspar David Friedrich
I am going to talk about the Quay Brothers 1995 feature film ‘Institute Benjamenta’. This is not a review as I believe art is something that should be experience personally and not something people should have to dictate to others using phrases like 4 out 5 stars. That being said what i’m going to write is a response because truly only the directors know what all the symbolism in the film means and those who watch it can only but respond to what they have made.
Talking points: The texts of Robert Walser
After watching the film my living room was empty, only the slight reflections of the street lamp outside created a weak illumination. I enjoyed it, this feeling that I had, very similar to the feeling that overtook me when I watched stalker. There is a very interesting use of lighting techniques displayed in this film. Mostly I remember the lighting in the scene with a corridor with a glass ceiling and almost like a meteor is flying over it or a underside down road.
It’s quite an in-depth film and they have scenes and music used in two shorts as part of this film. The music from ‘The Comb’ is interestingly recognisable and also the forest sequence from ‘Still Nacht 3’
‘Would you like to come with me?’. I had agreed and went with my pastor and his wife to the funeral of a 90 year old woman that I didn’t know. The church was a large room, with many people. A few came to the front giving stories of the impact she had made in their lives and in the lives of others (most notably in her children). After the service, in the car home, I spoke with my pastor and his wife about my desire to do an oral history project on victims of knife crime.
I was still doing my degree and knew the project was totally unsuitable for the marking criteria and the demanding pace of the course. I felt deep within me that this would be a long project best suited outside of the limits of university.
In 2008 I was ending year 11. That year felt like knife violence was so abundant that it could eventually happen to me and everyone who was my age. At least, what it felt like from reading the papers on the train to school or watching the evening news.
I always wondered whether the news media were best positioned to speak on the subject. They seemed to be in a rush to deliver the story and move onto the next headline (i.e. sports or a flash flood. The transition between stories was stark). I wondered what decision-making happened? When say, they picked pictures of the victim? Or included quotes from friends? Or gave statistics of the tally of youth violence for the year? What was the primary focus? To highlight violence and induce fear?
It’s heartbreaking to read articles on senseless murders and I can’t imagine the trauma of a mother whose son or daughter has died.
I realised that I knew less about the victim from reading the news than if I had spoken to their close friend. What was the victim really like? Who were they on the day before the incident happened? How would someone describe them? How do you sum up a life?
Oral history, which unlike the annuals on Great Generals, most effectively speaks about the hidden history of the ordinary lives of people in society. I did a short on my grandfather, as I viewed him as a person who was a great story-teller of everyday life. I thought, ‘if I don’t document it, only those who know him, would be aware of how amazing he really is!’
That same view I would like to bring into this project. Victims are made public through the impersonal tone of an official news voice rather than a sensitive tone of someone that really knew them as they were in everyday life. My hope is to collaborate with others and by telling their story, bring a sense of humanity back into people hearts. So that the beauty of life and the fragility of it will turn others away from violence.
Work in progress:
Link to a poem written to inspire the imagery here
Dom Davis 