Animated Typography

Typography is generally viewed as having a static medium, however many motion artists are becoming more inclined to include strong typography focus in their videos. The artistic technique of expression with kinetic text is used to convey the emotion or mood of numerous performing musicians such as Outkast, Bjork, Linkin Park, Nina Simone, Telepopmusik and many more. Below is just a small selection of typography videos just waiting to be found. If you have a great one, leave a comment and let people know about it!

I think my favorite is the pulp fiction video. However I’m probably biased considering I love that scene

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A typographic animation of Citizen Cope’s song “Let the Drummer Kick”
(Software: Adobe After Effects)

Artur Dimke
FH Muenster FB Design
Germany (less)

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Kanye West featuring T-Pain – Good Life.
Kanye West’s third single from his 3rd studio album entitled Graduation.
GOOD Music/Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella; 2007.

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Typograpical response taken from the film, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

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Using Obadiah Parker’s cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya”, I made this Adobe Flash typography animation. This was inspired by animations like The Hush Sound’s “Lion’s Roar”, and movie scene animations like those for Pulp Fiction and Ocean’s Eleven. It was a fun exercise in freestyle Flash animation and linear timeline tweening (which was a nice change from my specialty: programmatic animation (though, I used some programming in the later scenes of this video).

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Typography assignment using audio from an old public service announcement called “Duck and Cover” from the 50s. Created in After Effects.

From Cuartetodenos:
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My entry for the Bjork music video contest for the song Innocence, from the album Volta.
’nuff to say I didn’t pass the finals.

It’s not finished yet… obviously it’s a work in progress because deadline was moved one month ahead…

Track provided by bjork.com
Designed & Edited by Amy Wong

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..and this is what i feel when I listen to this great song!
Just my little motion graphic/tribute for Mute Math!
Thank you for your music!

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Animation for Astronaut by Spinvis, from his self-titled debut album. I made this for a school assignment (make an animation with the lyrics of a song). Spinvis put it on his dvd Nieuwegein Aan Zee.

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A music video I made for a school assignment. I wanted to deal directly with the song’s lyrics, using textual representation and timing transitions with the rythym.

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jet are you gonna be my girl
type in motion
kinetic typography

home made video
just for fun

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This is a small typography animation I made on After Effects. The song is Numb vs Encore by Linkin Park ft Jay Z. A print of the artwork featured in … all » this animation is available at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5… Thanks for looking!

From Google:
Animation I did for a moving type paper in my final year (2002) at the Massey University College of Design, Fine Arts and Music.

The … all » brief was fairly simple, we were asked to animate type to a piece of music and focus on rythym and timing. I also decided to draw on the rich vocal samples in this song and abuse the humour angle!

Typography and Image editing: Freehand10 Animation and Editing: After Effects 5.0

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I used SWiSHMax to create this video, but I needed to use a screen capture tool (the reason for that watermark in the corner) to actually export it as Swish wasn’t allowing me to export it right, it kept coming out monochrome and all the text inverted.

Anyway, here it is. Took some time to make. My first time trying anything like this. Hope to do more, perhaps learn after effects. It’d be a lot more powerful.

C&C Welcome.

Music:
Streetlight Manifesto – Point Counterpoint

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Yet another typography video done with after effects. This was set to the music of “Stall Out” by Mute Math.

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The “What does Marsellus Wallace Look Like” scene in Pulp Fiction portrayed using nothing but typography. By Jarratt Moody.

Tags: animated typography, kinetic text, typography

Category: Graphic Design, Video