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Chapter 5

All Words Are Pegs to Hang Ideas On: Text Animation

The links and Project examples below have been arranged according to the relevant sections of the chapter in the print book:

5.0

a. Open source

League of Moveable Type

Open Font Library

b. Open source and paid

dafont

1001 Free Fonts

Font Squirrel

c. Font identifier

What the Font

Identifont


5.1

a. Fonts

Znikomit


5.2

a. Opening and ending credit sequences mentioned in this section

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Dr. No (1962)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Se7en (1995)

American Horror Story (2011–present)

Downton Abbey (2010–2015)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Game of Thrones (2011–present)

Wall-E (2008)

True Blood (2008–2014)


Project 5.1

a. List of words

b. Storyboard templates: Final / Rough

c. Bored example


Project 5.2

a. Storyboard templates: Final / Rough

b. Logo animation examples

Broadcast Graphics

The Art of the Object—TV Channels

Charlotte Archery Logo Test

Malabar Design/Logo Reveals Reel

W Annual Reports World Tour—Logo Reveal

Nomad VFX—Logo Reveal

Parabella Ident

MAM—Stop Motion Logo

NT1 Bumpers

Expo 1Bumpers

France 5 Rebrand 1 Idents


Project 5.3

a. Video clips for lower-third animation

    1. Jeff Murphy and son Quinn at a playground in Berlin, Germany

    2. The Liftoff of SpaceX CRS-5 Falcon 9 Rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Courtesy of NASA)

    3. Amateur film: Medicus Collection: New York World's Fair, 1939–40 (Courtesy of the Prelinger Archives)

b. Finished lower-third example


Project 5.4

a. Jarratt Moody’s Say What Again

b. Saar Oz’s I Will Not Let an Exam Result Decide My Fate 

c. Additional kinetic type animation examples

Ira Glass’s The Gap

Mythbusters Kinetic Type

29 Ways to Stay Creative


Project 5.5

a. Art of the title

b. Forget the film, watch the titles

c. Public domain texts

Project Gutenberg

Europeana

Digital Public Library of America

d. Creative Commons 0 and attribution music 

Creative Commons Legal Music for Videos

Freesound.org

Free Music Archive (for Video)

Incompetech