Philosophy // Scanning and editing

Today we scanned in the sheets of lettering and edited them. Splitting the workload between us, we cleaned up the scanned files, inverted the colours to give us the blackboard effect we were looking for. I found that Japanese water brush gave a great variation in tone and this also worked well as white on black. One problem was that some of the letterforms had become very grey from the ink wearing out on the brush, in editing we needed to try and combat this without overcompensating and making the words look unnaturally even and white as this would reduce the charm of a handdrawn solution.

These large pages of script needed to be chopped into individual words, and exported as separate files in order to animate them. This gave us a super messy file with all the words overlayed on top of each other.

Using a PS script, we exported all the layers as separate png files. This saved us a load of time and gave us all the files we needed to start animating without all the manual work this would otherwise involve. 

We separated all of these scans into folders to make them all more manageable. Scrubbing through these in the finder gave a really interesting effect where the words enter and leave from either side. 

Doing a quick animation test, everything went to plan and the white on black makes the text seem really clean and calm. Tomorrow we will carry on chopping up the other scripts and begin to experiment with a few different animation styles. 

Initial animation test.