I decided to create some sketches based on a poem called A Poison Tree, written by William Blake.
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I water’d it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with my smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veil’d the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.
The poem is very evocative and I wanted to explore ways of enhancing the expression of the words through the SoftTypes developed in Mr. Softie. Each line of text will be augmented, morphed, dissected and molded differently, resulting in almost a graphical representation of the poem itself. The examples were done by capturing the screen and then bringing it to After Effects.
First examples:
Font: Chiller
In this first example, I also wanted to create masks for a background video from the shapes of the glyphs. The result is interesting, as it adds yet another layer of meaning to the text.
Wrath with mask
For the second example, the same lines of text with the same SoftTypes are manipulated differently and no mask was applied.
Wrath
Some still images:
Anger with Leak and Rubber SoftTypes
Wrath with Clay and Rubber SoftTypes
Wrath with Clay and Rubber SoftTypes
Link to files:
