Liquid Type

“Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand.” [1]
The statement reflects a way of dealing with type as solid matter: metal blocks with dimen­sion and weight. This in mind, I began a series of anima­tion studies as part of my diploma work on the topic of digital type and what makes it different from the real thing.

Time and Space

To create a copy of an image, a scanner reads the fixed subject line by line in a single pass and constant speed. One could also use a video camera as scanning device by covering the lens, except for a small slit. A video with a length of 500 frames becomes a pic­ture that is made up of 500 lines and the result will de­pend on camera actions like pan, zoom, rotation or the move­ment of the object itself.

Color and Space

Displacement Mapping is a technique, to generate geometry by assign­ing a height vector to “flat” image pixels. Bright areas are raised up the most, black pixels are not effected. This is useful to give a surface a more natural look or to generate height maps for landscape models.
The sketches are kind of a misuse by working with extreme displacement set­tings and low-res, animated textures.