{"id":248,"date":"2023-02-07T21:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2023-02-26T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:25:30","slug":"motion-design-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/motion-design-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"motion design begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"540\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 964 \/ 540;\" width=\"964\" controls loop muted poster=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/logo-for-humanity-poster.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aya_logoforhumanity_half-size.mov\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">prompt was to create a logo for humanity, to communicate something about ourselves to aliens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>i am a student, again, with deadlines and homework and frustrating starts and stops. i was excited to create something with my own <s>crude<\/s> emerging hand-drawn animation skills. i originally wanted to animate some word that had mostly stems, like <strong>illuminate<\/strong>. but then i read about the symbolism of the mouth in the wonderful <em>A Dictionary of Symbols<\/em> by J. Cirlot (1962): the mouth as organ of speech, and thus creation, as well as of devouring, and thus destruction. creation-destruction, sounds very primal. as is the mouth. it got me thinking about teeth morphing into the stems of a word. in the symbolism book, the mouth of monsters as depicted in the art of the European Middle Ages was often a portal to the underworld, or otherworld. think Jonah swallowed by the whale. the top teeth&#8211;heaven. the bottom teeth&#8211;earth, or hell. i then decided that writing is a nice fit for something that gives us both heaven and earth, as it uplifts us but also has separated us from oral culture, from our animal being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch1-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch1-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch1-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch1-1.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch3.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1512\" height=\"1512\" data-id=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch2.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch4-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch4-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch4-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch4-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch4-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/writing-anim-sketch4-1.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i am a student, again, with deadlines and homework and frustrating starts and stops. i was excited to create something with my own crude emerging hand-drawn animation skills. i originally wanted to animate some word that had mostly stems, like illuminate. but then i read about the symbolism of the mouth in the wonderful A&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/motion-design-begins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">motion design begins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-process","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}