Kinectic Typography

An example of Heebok Lee's work

For today's lesson we look at a typography artist called Heebok Lee who is a title sequence designer. In this case we looked one his video called sky words. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=593GOFEPrsQ

We discussed how he created the texts and the different effects such as fade in and out and text zooming in and out. I was then inspired to create my own stills similar to Lee's work using Illustrator.

I create these text on illustrator by using the character, type and transparency pallet.

TEXT = Gill Sans>regular>size260>arrange your size>effect>blur>guassain blur>15.

BUT SURE THE SKY IS BIG = Georgia regular>size36>type text>rewrite last word>increase size>effect>warp>bulge.

SOMEHOW STOP = adjust text>effect>blur>radial blur>zoom selected>best>27>47>ok.

BIG = type text>distort and transform>pucker and bloat>15>ok.

From this tutorial, i enjoyed experimenting with the different effects but found it difficult to adjust as i'm used to working with Photoshop. In the future I am going to have to practice in order to improve my Illustrator skills.