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2. Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles
by Brent Barson
2 years ago
1. F is for FAIL
by Brent Barson
2 years ago
F is for Fail is a short film about the creative process, and the failure we always encounter, but usually overcome. Told using the alphabet, each letter informs us of the state of the protagonist's creativity/state of mind. Each letter has two words associated with it (except A and Z); sometimes the positive word overpowers the negative word, and vice-versa.
Typographic footage was converted and exported one frame at a time. No AE filters or effects!
Creative direction, design, and animation by Brent Barson.
Music by Micah Dahl Anderson. Oscar-caliber acting by Jon Troutman.

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  • Mike 2 years ago
    Amazing! Great work.
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  • FH Alexander 2 years ago
    Very cool -
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  • versa plus 2 years ago
    very cool, Brent! great work!
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  • Jared Flynn 2 years ago
    What a cool piece. It really conveys just how deeply emotion and tone can be communicated through typography. So glad I stumbled upon this; thanks for sharing!
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  • Arturo Jain 2 years ago
    Just Great, what an amazing work!!!
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  • William Zoe FitzGerald 2 years ago
    A is for AweSome! story of our lives....
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  • Angel Lorenzo 2 years ago
    what a great idea =)
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  • Mike Skocko plus 2 years ago
    F is for Fantastic!
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  • Sebastian Lange plus 2 years ago
    impressive!
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  • htp 2 years ago
    Bow down. I am always humbled when someone says ... "one frame at a time." =)
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  • Jiggs Casey 2 years ago
    A is for Cool!
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  • Diego Pardo 2 years ago
    "typelicious"!
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  • Kaila Williams 2 years ago
    Love it!
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  • Schrabikus 2 years ago
    It is beautyfull!
    You're Psycho, in a good sense!
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  • Jim Schultz 2 years ago
    You are inspirational.
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  • Grace Powers 2 years ago
    I'm glad J for Joy is before Q for quit.
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  • Mauricio Arrieta 2 years ago
    WOOOOO
    So amazing yeaaaah
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  • Xandra 2 years ago
    really cool
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  • tommasina squadrito 2 years ago
    I like
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  • Annabell L 2 years ago
    awesome work! keep it up!!!
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  • danielmakino 2 years ago
    Great!!!!!!!
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  • Aequoria 2 years ago
    M is beautiful...
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  • Jordan Neumeyer 2 years ago
    I want to see more!!! =D
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  • Brian Gurnett 2 years ago
    How does one even start on something this complex???
  • Brent Barson 2 years ago
    With much forethought, and caution. :[]
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  • ed cheetham plus 2 years ago
    Hi Brent, So exactly how did you create the animation frame by frame? Could you explain a bit more?
  • Brent Barson 2 years ago
    I exported each still video frame as a JPEG, then finessed and converted it to vector type with a secret little standalone program :[] Then, reimported into AE as a sequence for editing and colorization, etc.
  • Matthew Lovein plus 7 months ago
    Has enough time passed that you can share what the secret vector program is for this fantastic piece of work?
  • Brent Barson 7 months ago
    Yes, It's called Vectoraster, and it now generates Quicktime movies, without the pain and blood I expended to create this. :[] Good news for anyone else trying something similar! lostminds.com/content/show_product.php?id=vectoraster4
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  • Skye Jordan 2 years ago
    I love the artwork.
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  • Crea Red Ribbon 2 years ago
    hihihihihi... the ending is neat... it surprised me... I love surprises ;)
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  • Eyteneyer 2 years ago
    Excellent!
    Great!
    Wow!
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  • Dana Chrisler 2 years ago
    Mind blowing effort and moving results. I got teary eyes from being so creatively elevated. I would love to learn how to do this.
  • lauren turetsky 2 years ago
    Me too!
    How is this done!!!
    A is for Amazing.
  • Brent Barson 2 years ago
    Hi guys, thanks for the compliments—see my comments above in response to Ed Cheetham. That's as much detail as I can give! :[]
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  • Jared williams 2 years ago
    perfect explanations. nice work!
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  • robrepta 2 years ago
    saw this at the typophile film fest at phoenix design week, one of my faves
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  • Leigh Carter 2 years ago
    Amazing!!!
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  • Graham Reid 2 years ago
    I definitely feel this!!
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  • Ephemeral Waves 2 years ago
    love this
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  • Brent Anders 1 year ago
    you make TypoGraphY CoOl!
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  • tsm 1 year ago
    wonderful!
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  • mygue 1 year ago
    Awesome work!! Really nice designs
    :D
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  • shinyung joo 1 year ago
    cool~~
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  • kaztuc 1 year ago
    beautiful reel
    very creative
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  • Sakura Enggarwartini 1 year ago
    Awesome!
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  • bachbaszkowski 1 year ago
    what kind of font did you use at the end? for credits..
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  • Marcus Griffen 11 months ago
    This is great! You said you didn't use AE at all, just Flash?
  • Brent Barson 11 months ago
    I exported each still video frame as a JPEG, then finessed and converted it to vector type with a program called Vectoraster, (which now, years later, actually creates movies!) Then, reimported into AE as a sequence for editing and colorization, etc.
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  • Marcus Griffen 11 months ago
    That's an amazing amount of work! When you were animating the hand or the human figure, how did you create the realism in Flash?

    The only way I can imagine to do it would be to take each frame of a video and frame by frame animate the type characters over it.
  • Brent Barson 11 months ago
    No Flash. Just After Effects. Most of the animation comes from the movement of the video, and since each frame was generated individually, it has a random/handmade feel to it.
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  • frelikh 8 months ago
    I LIKE it very much. Thank you for good video.
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  • Marie Baker 7 months ago
    Fantastic job!! Great work :) Crazy what we can do with technology these days!!!

    loved the storyline/idea as well! Well developed and excellently executed :)
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  • JG Miksi 7 months ago
    ❤ I felt this
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  • mpared plus 6 months ago
    I love it. I can't believe that i have miss this for so long it is up at thecuriousbrain.com/
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  • Pierre Van den Broeck 5 months ago
    Geniale typografische vormgeving !
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  • Francisco Herrada 5 months ago
    exelente trabajo... me gusto el final :D
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