{"id":8664,"date":"2018-04-23T13:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:41:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:41:03","slug":"kinetic-text-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/?p=8664","title":{"rendered":"Digital Tools for Artists: Kinetic Text"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kinetic Text<\/span><\/p>\n

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This project combined text and fonts. While I struggled with creating a visual storyline, I do feel like I was able to play around with fonts and sizing. The text is a poem called \u201cThe Wine Dog <\/span>uh<\/span><\/i> Drools Over Froot Loops\u201d, which I wrote my sophomore year in a class with Matthea Harvey. The poem is from a series of similar poems, with the \u201cwine dog\u201d as a central character. This poem has childhood references as well as a prevailing theme of speech disfluencies. Matthea\u2019s class was called <\/span>Checkpoint Fact\/Lyric<\/span><\/i>. A lot of our pieces had to be an extension of a fact. That\u2019s why there are a lot of facts in the poem. This poem was central to connecting my speech disfluencies and loving my \u201cex-step mom\u2019s\u201d dog. The dog\u2019s name is Vino. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"moyna_prompt2_2\"<\/p>\n

I struggled with producing 4 minutes of movement\u2014harmonious and opposing. I feel like in After Effects it\u2019s easy to start using a bunch of effects rather than making your own content. I also struggled with rhythm and felt like I used the same text format throughout the piece. I also struggled to include a 3D effect\u2014my laptop kept crashing After Effects and it wouldn\u2019t load onto my screen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"moyna_prompt2_3\"<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the project itself, I had a lot of fun with fonts, color, and movement. First and foremost, the colors and solid layers had to be bright. I\u2019m writing about two <\/span>bright<\/span><\/i> things: Vino the dog and our mutual love for <\/span>Froot Loops<\/span><\/i>. At first, I tried to implement a green and peach color palette within the <\/span>Froot Loop<\/span><\/i> text. I also tried to emphasize the speech disfluencies like <\/span>um<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>uh<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>like<\/span><\/i> with a pink text and using the <\/span>Engravers<\/span><\/i> font. Furthermore, I learned some new effects like adding a wiggle and scaling just a part of the word. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"moyna_prompt2_4\"<\/p>\n

I came out of this project with a few favorite fonts. While there are some really wacky ones out there, Arial Narrow Bold and Futura turned out to be my go-to\u2019s. These fonts worked well with stroke and fill, whereas the wacky fonts were harder to work with stroke and fill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I also wish there was a way to copy and paste more than a few words into a text box. It was nice that I could use different text boxes to create different animations on each word. However, it was harder when I had entire sentences where I felt the whole sentence needed an effect. It was tough fitting the stanza inside a text box so I had to split up each line into a different text box. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"moyna_prompt2_5\"<\/p>\n

If I had had more time I would have tried really hard to pursue a visual storyline with this piece. I\u2019m disappointed that I could not find a way to do that. I also want to stop using effects as a primary visual effect. The video also took an incredibly long time to render in ray-traced where it would just stop in the middle and not continue rendering. I changed the render setting back to Classic 3D. I left it rendering all night on ray-traced and it still did not completely render. However, once I set it back to Classic 3D it was able to do so. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kinetic Text This project combined text and fonts. While I struggled with creating a visual storyline, I do feel like I was able to play around with fonts and sizing. The text is a poem called \u201cThe Wine Dog uh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":8665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-tools-for-artists","tag-kinetic-text","wpcat-263-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14042,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/14042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}