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August 14, 2007
Text in motion
Text in motion: CSS leader Dave Shea links to a baker's half-dozen YouTube videos which specialize in English text moving in correspondence to narration. I was struck by how effective the text animation was, even though it was a video which passed through the YouTube publishing process (which can often introduce recompression issues or re-keying of framerates). There is smooth and graceful animation here, even though it may not be running at a hundred frames a second. The key is the use of classic animation principles... timing, anticipation, followthrough, arcs, easing, squash/stretch... there's a way to make things come alive, but it requires more smarts and skills than just cranking the framerate up beyond what any browser/processor can actually deliver. Disney classic animation displayed in movie theatres at 24 frames per second, and many of those pieces were done two-up, with a single piece of artwork shown for two frames, for an effective framerate of 12fps! Check out the Johnston & Thomas animation link above... it discusses the principles used behind many of the typography pieces to which Dave linked.
Posted by JohnDowdell at August 14, 2007 03:23 PM
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More in similar vein, a different type-in-motion video every day in August, from Matthijs Kamstra.
Posted by: John Dowdell at August 16, 2007 03:32 PM