alphabloks motion typography

This project was created in 2010 as a motion typography challenge.

School: Academy of Art University, San Francisco
Department: Computer Arts, VFX
Class: Compositing for Motion Graphics 2
Instructor: Colin Evoy Sebestyen

“Alphabloks” Creative Brief: Using the techniques we have covered in class lecture, produce 3 short videos that will function as “motion glyphs”. I will assign you your respective letters or numbers. The free typeface from Crol.rene, “wodenbloks” will be our basis.

ALPHABLOKS – Motion Typography from Colin Evoy Sebestyen on Vimeo.

Our typefaces will be based on Crol.rene’s “wodenbloks”, however, the paths are not optimized for the creation of geometry, so you will need to retrace the paths in Adobe Illustrator, and merge them into c4d. Once in c4d, I’ve created a stock setup for all of the designers to utilize. It includes preset materials, a lighting setup, and a camera setup with isometric projection. You’ll need to extrude your geometry with a movement of 50 in the z parameter of an extrude object. From this point forward, design an effective and eye catching animation to reveal your glyph, using the mograph module and the techniques we have covered over the course of 15 weeks.