GMU:Wild Type/Part3

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Animated Fonts

In this lecture we will learn how to create animated fonts and kinetic typography.

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Animation

Kinetic Typography

Homework

  • Think of a theme, an emotion or a story you want to express through animated typography
  • Create an animation in Processing
  • Upload the result to Vimeo

Writing Systems

In this lecture we will explore different writing systems.

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Research

Software

Homework

Create some kind of fictional alphabet

  • Create a Processing Sketch to display the letters of the alphabet — maybe draw a chart of letters (Did you know Processing can output PDFs?)
  • Use the RITA library to create text in your constructed script!
  • Please a short paragraph in the wiki detailing the background of your fictional alphabet / writing system / language
  • Just posting pretty pictures is not enough

Remember:

  • You have two weeks time to finish your homework!
  • Keep it simple. It’s okay if you create a writing system for a special domain (For example counting / numbers)

Physical Fonts

In this lecture we will explore 3D fonts.

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Examples

Software

Homework

1. Create a a couple of 3D letters using the 3D tools we explored in class
2. Use the processing sketch to typeset them in 3D space Remember:

  • Processing can handle only OBJ files
  • MeshLab is your friend when it comes to conversion between 3D file formats
  • You can use this sketch as a starting point

Reading Fonts

In this lecture we will explore optical character recognition

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Homework

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