Zapf Dingbats and Whitney Brothers at the BFI

Our first brief of the term was an animation. But no ordinary animation; we had to create our animation using only the symbols from Zapf Dingbats. We were allowed to make many of them change their size and colour but not alter the shape of them. The animation had to be between 10 and 20 seconds long and we had a session of about 3 hours in which to shoot everything.



After finding out our new brief I saw there was a night on at the BFI looking at the whitney brothers, who were pioneers in the field of computer graphics. I was shocked at just how early their motion graphics were and they had a retro quality about them which wouldn't look out of place in any of todays bars or clubs.

Inspired by the era they were made in, some were very psychedelic and almost hypnotisin, last for several minutes.