Selected works by Scott Garner of Seattle, Washington
The idea was to create a system that could automatically create an engaging kinetic type animation for virtually any song. The current version was completed on 2008-12-03 in Seattle, Washington using Processing.
This is a video I worked on for San Francisco band Girls. They ended up not releasing the song and I got sidetracked by various things, but it’s more or less complete if not particularly polished and I doubt I’ll work on it again.
Finished or not, massive thanks go to Chloé McLennan, without whom none of this would have come together.
This video was shot in San Francisco, California and completed on 2008-12-10 in Seattle, Washington.
This is a screencast of a Processing sketch I developed called TypeStar. It’s basically a karaoke machine that renders lyrics in realtime according to a number of preset visualization schemes.
It was originally created for a project in my Type in Motion class which required students to create a kinetic type animation for the Busy Bee scene from the movie Best in Show. I decided that rather than create yet another kinetic type piece, I would write a kinetic type engine.
Continue reading ‘TypeStar’
