17 Amazing Inspirational Typography Videos
Mar 20th in Articles by Topher Welsh
Inspirational Typography Video Roundup
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Rock N Rolla Opening Titles
Let's start off with a bang. Danny Yount is a designer/director who has designed many famous title sequences. In his latest sequence design, "Rock N Rolla", he takes still images, adds some style and ends up with a 'killa' type design.
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The Child
"The Child" takes you through the experience of a freaked out soon-to-be dad, a pregnant wife and a crazy car chase through the city on the way to the hostpital. Oh yeah, and EVERYTHING is made out of words.
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Kanye West - The Good Life
Kanye West's video featuring T-Pain entitled "The Good Life" has some awesome typographic elements in it and shows a great mix of bouncy animation for use with live action.
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Flash On The Beach
The Ronin did something truly original in this piece. He had the titles made out of plastic and beautifully shot them on the beach. He cleverly allowed the type to interact with the environment, like wind knocking letters down and people stepping over words.
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Trollback - Pop!Tech 2008
This open created by Trollback & Co, embraced the theme of Pop!Tech with organic elements like water growing whip-like arms and corrosion. This is a piece that takes three colors: white, black and red, and creates a truly stunning piece of art.
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Flickermood
"Flickermood 2.0" by Sebastian Lange is described as "The next level of this experimental typographic orgy." Personally I couldn't agree more. This video takes hundreds... thousands of letters and words which are flying everywhere to a really funky beat. All you really need to know is it looks amazing.
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Ya no sé qué hacer conmigo
This is another one of those typographic pieces that we see all over youtube, but this one stand out above the rest. Really well put together, this video integrates characters which seem to be "cartoonified" and mixes them with typographic elements along with other objects that help tell the whole story.
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Troika - FOX Branding
You gotta love Troika. They have done tons of branding packages for lots of major networks, but the package put together for FOX is just unbelievable. Everything flows really great, but pay attention to the scanline-ish words transition as some of the characters disintegrate and come together... pretty radical.
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Wyld Stallions - Punish The Atom
This piece is a promo spot for an upcoming record by punk band, Punish The Atom. It uses all still pictures of the band, cuts them out, adds a music track, some distressed type, some crazy movement, and viola! You got yourself a killer looking promo.
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Superfad - New Museum
Superfad is an amazing design company. They have produce a bunch of great typographic spots recently. This one in particular caught my eye, it is an holiday e-card that uses a quirky music track to display a lot of information in a relatively small amount of time. Looks sharp too.
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Superfad - Visa go. Spot
Another one from Superfad! This piece doesn't use too many words, but that's okay because they make quite an impact with only one word. Notice how they integrate the word 'go' into a bunch of scenarios, all of which I am sure can be recreated in After Effects ;-)
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Superfad - Gap - Perez Hilton
Alright, one last one from Superfad! Like many in a series of GAP commercials, sketchy typography was used to convey a monologue spoken by Perez on a pedestal. Very cool use of 3D space and live action.
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Thank You For Smoking Opening Titles
The opening titles for the movie "Thank You For Smoking" takes tons of vintage-esque cigarette posters, casings, and branding and sends you through the opening credits integrating all the elements along the way.
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DVein BL.DVEIN.Tocame
This piece is just creepy, but it is also visually stimulating. It reminds me of watching macro time-lapse shots of mold or something decomposing. Doesn't sound pretty? Watch It. It is probably one of my favorites on this list. It takes super close CG shots watching things decay, grow, infest, and all the while creating logos and type.
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Softlightes - Heart Made of Sound
This is a pretty cool stop motion typographic piece. Unlike most of the others we have seen this one takes a turn into the manual approach to creating unique typographical elements. Talk about time consuming... but hey, it sure pays off when you see the finished piece
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Typolution
This is a crazy work of art. A lot of the time when you think about typography you think about the way the letters and wording are laid out and intergrated with the piece. This video shows you how to use other characters such as commas, hyphens, and exclamation points, to create a whole world out of it.
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TED 2009 Titles
Finally we wrap with this truly beautiful piece of 3D typography that is the opener for the 25th anniversary of one of the most inspiring conferences in the world: TED.
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )David March 20th
1st to post Wohooo!!
( )Mr Egg March 20th
Wow!!! This is all fantastic and visually brilliant but I can’t help feel slightly disheartened too.
I could only dream of doing something in a school of this caliber.
I’m a Editor/Desinger very much like yourself Topher. Wondering around the web, like we all do I’m seeing more and more humans and the like getting into this field and flooding the market with work thats not to similar to yours or mine.
Sites like these… I feel we are becoming victims of thier success.
What do you think???
( )Topher Welsh March 20th
I don’t think that we are becoming victims of their success… I feel like there is so much we can learn, and eventually surpass their level of creativity. Early on in the learning process it may seem that way, but once you can learn and figure out what they do, and how they do it, there are millions of techniques to adapt and be able to improve upon.
The thing I love about the net, is anyone can show off their stuff. Whether or not it is good doesn’t matter, as long as you do your best and improve from there is what counts.
( )eric March 20th
Go Danny Yount! And keep up the good work you guys. Thanks for sharing.
( )Matt Smartt March 20th
Rock N’ Rolla intro sequence was the best. I love it. I want to see a tut on this sort of thing, working with still images and panning around etc.
( )Topher Welsh March 20th
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/virtual_3d_photos/
Andrew Kramer’s got a really great tutorial on this exact thing, at least the basic concept behind it.
( )mahmoud March 29th
yeha its a basic one the andrew kramer did, it would be nice to see a tutorial on how rock n rolla was made,
Alexandre broggio March 20th
cool
( )luantran March 20th
thank………………
( )maxdiamond March 20th
amazing list. cool.
( )Dan Pope March 20th
I would like to see tutorials for Trollback, TED 2009 and Troika! All great.
( )Loay March 20th
Thank you
( )Fukuske March 20th
nicearticle!
check out this one :
( )http://vimeo.com/2984722
Fehry March 20th
yeah,thats right..
( )Roald André Pedersen March 20th
Awsome!
( )Zach March 20th
i thought this was a tutorial website? Where are the tutorials? if I wanted to watch cool videos I would turn on the tv
( )Topher Welsh March 20th
It is all about inspiration. If you only follow tutorials, you only learn those techniques, and never develop your own. Articles like this are made to stimulate your imagination and say… “How in the hell did they do that?”
( )Zach March 21st
yes and that’s what i am here to learn… I’m here to learn “how in the hell they did it”
David Henderson March 20th
Some of these are awesome!
Would love to be at that level soon!
( )Aerendyl March 20th
Really nice collection. I have a lot of inspiration now. Thanks mate!
( )Noah S March 20th
can you guys do a tutorial on the ROCK N ROLLA title sequence? There’s certain elements in there I just can’t figure out how to animate and achieve.
( )Braden Keith March 20th
Maybe a whole getting started with typography tutorial? hmm
I love having inspiration, thanks for this post.
( )Topher Welsh March 20th
Have you seen this tutorial? http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/design-rhythmic-motion-typography-in-after-effects/
( )Braden Keith March 22nd
:O I did not! I just recently started following this site and have mainly been focusing on the getting started tutorials. Thanks for the link!
Torrie March 20th
Love this collection- amazing! Thank you for sharing!
( )Chris Grayson - Art Director March 20th
Great stuff. They NYC skyline concept in “The Child” looks like it was inspired by a poster for The Skyscraper Museum in New York.
( )KJ March 20th
I have asked this at a another forum but I am just curious on how they did the text wiggle in the flickermood vid.
Anyone have have any ideas?
KJ
( )Tom March 20th
Anyone know the name of the song in the Fox promo?
( )NnielsS March 21st
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZiAAMKcSc
thats the song
( )zuza March 20th
great stuff!!!
( )Dante Araujo March 22nd
Finally some inspirational videos here!!! I would love to see many many more posts like this one!
( )Gez March 22nd
What the hell is with this website?
( )For the Ronin video those are cgi letters! not plastic letters set up….. hahahaha what the hell! seriously.
Lloyd Alvarez March 22nd
Sorry to disappoint you mate, but they are not CGI. Ask Rob Chiu yourself if you don’t believe me.
( )Gez March 23rd
Plastic letters dont fall like that.
( )Gez March 23rd
Although, when the seagulls swoop down on them it looks pretty real…
( )Lloyd Alvarez March 23rd
They are real, trust me.
( )Flaunt March 24th
The latest Ford Truck commercials should definitively be included in this list.
( )novus March 27th
A recent Computer Arts Projects issue talks with Rob Chiu about that video. They are indeed real blocks. No cgi whatsoever.
( )Koray April 1st
Fox branding good job
( )Web design Bonn April 5th
Woww.Flickermood is amazing.
( )Ferdie April 15th
Rock n Rolla ROCKS!
a tutorial thats similar to this would be the best AE tuts EVER!
( )emilio loizzo April 21st
this is not something about cgi or vfx… its all about art
there ´s no tutorial that will explain how to be an artist. you are or you are not
for sure
( )q3c April 22nd
No “Macho Box” by MK12???
Come on, they pretty much started the whole thing. Give ‘em some credit!
( )Lloyd April 22nd
If you really want to go back to where it started I would say it was Saul Bass!
( )Luis Eduardo April 25th
I really like this videos!!!!!!
( )Typography videos are a great source of inspiration
TimeKoder13 April 26th
JAY-Z “BROOKLYN” Was pretty creative and inspiring, and can never really be copied. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QftcJtvLr8g
Loved Fox and Rock N Rolla pieces…2.5 as it should be
( )Brian Foote April 27th
check out the nice type channel on vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/channels/nicetype
( )Marcus June 5th
http://vimeo.com/1977736
Why didnt you post mine?
I think it’s about the same quality as some theese.
( )Joe September 22nd
Anyone know the font used for the RocknRolla opening sequence?
( )Steven McGuinness October 21st
Hi
I am planning to develop a site dedicated to motion typography for a university project.
It would be a site where users can upload and rate other videos, as well follow tutorials, etc.
I have a questionnaire, I would really appreciate it if you took the time to fill it in. to help me get a better understanding of features to include on the site.
If you are interested reply back or email me at ‘weeven@hotmail.co.uk’
Thanks, Steven
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