Showertime research

Just a few snaps I thought I'd take seen as these wonderful products have pretty swirly patterns on.
I like how the patterns on the Herbal Essences bottle are individual. They're all the same pattern and style, however they've been rotated and placed next to eachother. They kinda look as though they've been quickly knocked up as the curves aren't equal and perfect. It looks good.

As bad a photo as this is, I thought it'd still be worth while me including it.
The flowers are a good idea seen as I'm using vines in my animation. Using flowers though, may be a bit too much, as I've already been using other vectorised drawings as well as the vine.

I went out last night and spotted this lovely little flyer, laying on its lonesome, scared... so I rescued it. :)

I may use some of these designs in my work.

I watched 'Enchanted' the other day, and the end credits used the techniques I will be using. It used camera angles, zooming in and out, panning left and right... etc.

I thought it'd be a good(ish) example of the kind of thing I want to do, although the typography would be animated rather than just static.

Some light inspiration

I love how simple this video is. It's constant zooming in as if everything passes you is really inspirational. I may have to use this idea in my work.

Letterforms

I'm still thinking how I want my letterforms to work. I know I want to apply an effect to each individual letter which would then create a whole word at the end of the clip, but I still need to figure out the effects.

I thought using splats which could cover the letterform and drip which would lead to the next, or, perhaps the splat could take the form of a letter.

In the video above, I particularly like the first few seconds, when the ink/paint (or whatever it is) splats. I like how other images are created from it, and zooms in. I may try to use this technique in my work.

I don't want to keep them too ''samey'', in the sense that there's a lot of dripping, or there are simply a bunch of letters with an effect for each. I want them to be as unique as possible.

Along the same lines..

I've been trying to find some good examples of typographic animation. I came across this which is incredibly inspirational. It's more or less exactly the same idea I had when I first started this brief. Although I have a new idea, this isn't my final one, so I could still do something along the same lines as this.

I really like how a different effect takes place to different words.

I took screen grabs up to 1 minute for this video I found on youtube.

I cut each frame up and made them into a flip book, just like the one I made for my storyboard the other day.

Three Square Design

www.threesquaredesign.247media.org

I found this website whilst browsing through the internet at typography. It's got some pretty amazing work on there.

I love how the designer has used the text in various angles. It makes it look so much more visually appealing.

This is gorgeous. It looks precious and sensitive. I like how the stems carefully branch off from the letter.

I like how the video writes as the voice talks. It uses a variety of typefaces which is what I want to do in my video.

www.basedesign.com

A great website shown on the '10 best/worst...' brief.

After entering the site, there are four links to click which takes you to a particular area of their work.

I've been looking at 'BaseLab', which focuses on type on where they've used it within work they've produced. It's really interesting to read through their reasons for their designs and to see examples of the type within the media.

I particularly like this type, created for cookies.

They've given it an extremely hand-written look, so it feels fresh and clean.

On the website, below the image is a quick explanation as to why they've done what they've done, and helps you understand the type.

''This friendly font doesn't just look handwritten, it acts handwritten. Each character appears in four versions, alternating sequentially via OpenType technology for a real handwritten feel. And with more than 1,400 glyphs,Fontaneda Digestive accounts for all Latin-based languages.

If you're feeling that it looks like one of your grandmother's recipes, it's because we designed this font for a company that makes cookies, commissioned by the advertising agency Draft FCB.''

Another font which caught my eye, was the Cinematek typeface.

''Our Cinematek typeface is neon-like in form —segmented, rounded, and inviting. We designed it for Cinematek, a film center in Brussels that shows, restores, and distributes movies, and serves as a museum and archive of cinema.''

More fonts

http://www.buyfonts.com/fnt10.htm

Abbess

An unusual decorative font. Ideal for creating headings when you want to create an

artistic feel to a page.

Author

An elegant script that looks like old fashioned copperplate writing such as you find on certificates. The letters join together (technically called "cursive script") to give a flowing style. Useful where you want a formal look.

Blarney

A Celtic-style font, similarly to lettering first used over a thousand years ago. Excellent if you want to conjure up an image of the Dark Ages.

Calvin

A very informal script font that looks like you just jotted something down. The two sets of letters are different so you can mix them to give a better 'jotted-down' look.

Calvin Italic

The italic version of Calvin. What more is there to say?

Coleridge

Another elegant script. Lighter than Author and looks more like handwriting. You can imagine an 19th century letter written in Coleridge.

Dicot Medium

Where you're short of space, a slightly condensed font like Dicot Medium is invaluable. There's also Light and Bold variants in the Dicot family.

Marker

Looks like someone's used a thick marker pen to write with. An excellent font when you want to create an informal-looking heading. To continue the informal appearance you could use Calvin for the body of the text.

Rigamarole

Useful for posters and notices.

Splash

A stylish font suitable for headings and short blocks of body text.

Toledo

A very informal script font that looks like you just jotted something down.

Fonts

I loooove fonts and type!! This would be amazing to

use for the title sequence!! I'm really headed more towards this idea if I'm completely honest!!

www.dafont.com was the first place I went to look for fonts, 'cause I'm clever.

They have the top 100 fonts on the

re which is a good head start I guess!

Patterns

I've found a cool site with bugger loads of patterns!!

http://twitterpatterns.com

These could be really handy if I were to use patterns in my title sequence.

I'd create questionnaires and such to see which people prefer to find the 10 best/worst.

Love Film

More interesting idents

Big Brother

Seeing as Big Brother's up and running again, I thought it only polite to watch!! Glad I did too, the opening credits are wiked!! They could be great inspiration for the 5 second clips we need to make if that was the same kind of genre I was going for.