5th Typophile Film Festival

Handcrafted with love by BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. A visual typographic feast about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity. Everything in the film is real—no CG effects!

Shot with a RED One, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a Canon EOS 40D, and a Nikon D80.
Stop motion created with Dragon Stop Motion.

norman mclaren

Boogie Doodle, Norman McLaren, 1941.

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An animation film, made without the use of a camera, in which 'boogie' played by Albert Ammons and 'doodle' drawn by Norman McLaren combine to make a rhythmic, brightly colored film experiment. The main title is in eight languages.

len lye

Swinging the Lambeth Walk, Len Lye, 1940.

Len Lye was also sponsored to make films by the GPO Film Unit (a subdivision of the General Post Office). If you're interested in his exploration of rhythm, have a look at A Colour Box.



Night Mail, 1936.

It's also worth looking at Night Mail produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright. Although filmic, as opposed to animation, it features a fantastic soundtrack with music by Benjamin Britten and poetry by W.H. Auden. It is perhaps easier here to see the link between the fact that the PO was the sponsor and the film concept of 'post'.

saul bass

The Human Factor, Saul Bass, 1979.

Based on the book by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough and Derek Jacobi.

Look also at Psycho, Saul Bass, 1960, which uses a simple line to create drama and intrigue.

kuntzel & deygas

Kuntzel and Deygas's memorable and idiosyncratic title sequence to Steven Spielberg's comedy drama thriller Catch Me if You Can (2002), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, depicting the career of the world's most successful con artist, Frank Abagnale Jr.. The slender Lowreyesque figures run through environments that symbolise key plot points from the film, and are accompanied by John Williams's floaty, 1960s jazz-era score. The title design credit is discreetly featured in the shelf, while the papers blow past the pursuer's face.
(Quoted from YouTube)

nitrocorpz

Watch the movie here

Established in 2003, Nitrocorpz works in a broad range of communication fields, such as print, illustration, branding, animation and interactive projects. Some of their clients include: Linotype Library, Burton Snowboards, Analog Clothing, Rip Curl, Computer Arts, MTV Brazil.

grant orchard

Park Foot Ball



'Tensions mount in surely the shortest game ever, as match emotions and park life are merged and condensed into mere minutes though the simple yet hugely evocative animation by regular studio aka animator orchard.'

Dominoes

the hyde tube

The Hyde Tube showcases a variety of animation projects and is worth a look at. Follow the links beneath the images to see each animation in full.

http://www.thehydetube.com/Mr.PISTOLS-113.html

http://www.thehydetube.com/Mr.Y-KZHLN-151.html


http://www.thehydetube.com/Mrs.BALLOON-344.html


http://www.thehydetube.com/Mr.LAFLOTTE-45.html

http://www.thehydetube.com/Mr.KORBE-408.html

all about prints

All About Prints is a documentary directed by Christopher Noey and produced by Lizzy McGlynn. It tells the history of printmaking in America, from woodblock to digital. The history of each technique is explained and instructional animations are provided.

Graphics produced by Asterisk
To view the whole animation, go to MotionServed.

jarratt moody

Say What Again was created by Jarratt Moody for a class called Time Based Typography taught by Duff Yong at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

sebastian lange

'Stop Talking, Start Doing' Animation for IBM from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.


Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

conveying information

A Record of Life, Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks.

A short animation based on the scientific recording of life's great species. 

 

The Kiss - Infographic from Marija Vidanovic on Vimeo.

viking eggeling

Born in Sweden to a family of German origin, Viking Eggeling emigrated to Germany at the age of 17, where he became a bookkeeper, and studied art history as well as painting. From 1911 to 1915 he lived in Paris, then moved to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I. In Zurich he became a associated with the Dada movement, became a friend of Hans Richter, Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, and Marcel Janco. With the end of the Great War he moved to Germany with Richter where both explored the depiction of movement, first in scroll drawings and then on film. In 1922 Eggeling bought a motion picture camera, and working without Richter, sought to create a new kind of cinema. Axel Olson, a young Swedish painter, wrote to his parents in 1922 that Eggeling was working to a musical-cubist style of film - completely divorced from the naturalistic style. In 1923 he showed a now lost, 10 minute film based on an earlier scroll titled Horizontal-vertical Orchestra. In the summer of 1923 he began work on Symphonie Diagonale. Paper cut-outs and then tin-foil figures were photographed a frame at a time. Completed in 1924, the film was shown for the first time (privately) on November 5. On May 3, 1925 it was presented to the public in Germany; sixteen days later Eggeling died in Berlin.

In Diagonal Symphony, the emphasis is on objectively analyzed movement rather than expressiveness on the surface patterning of lines into clearly defined movements, controlled by a mechanical, almost metronomic tempo. The spatial complexities and ambiguities of Richter's film are almost non-existent here. Above all, a sober quality of rhythm articulation remains the most pronounced quality of the film.

ubuweb

patrick fry

Stills from Patrick Fry's stop-frame animation for PGTV.

snask

Snask, Mike Crozier, 2010.

'Stopmotion film that I created for SNASK while interning with them in Stockholm. I wrote, shot and edited the film myself without the use of special effects or stopmotion software. There are 1846 photos, and it took just under 4 days to shoot.'

For more information go to croz.co.uk

her morning elegance

This video was shot with all stills: roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie. The entire video was shot in Eyal Landesman's studio in Tel-Aviv.

Credits: 

Her Morning Elegance
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Photography: Eyal Landesman
Color: Todd Iorio at Resolution
Actress: Shir Shomron

jenni rope

Jenni Rope: Kiipeilypuu / The Climbing Tree from Jenni Rope 

For more of Jenni's illustration/animation/collage work go to: www.jennirope.com