Walking Together What Remains

Walking Together What Remains is an animation I found on the FlashForward2004 website. This animation provides a solution to our current assignment, to animate a poem in a non-literal fashion. This animation uses bitmaps, one bitmap image to go with each line from the poem. The colors in the images are dark. To tie all of the images together, the animated gave each image the same, canvass-like texture. The technique is really effective here.

The animator does some very interesting things with the type. He uses a different transition for each line of text and within each line of text, he uses different type sizes to create a very modern look. He includes the line number with each line of text. To me, this is more of a distraction than a necessity.

He uses the same transition between the images throughout the entire poem. For my own animation, I will probably use the same transition between images throughout the entire animation as well. I was worried that it may seem too repetitive, but I think, at least in this example it works. As long as the transition is not the central focus of the animation and there are other things happening with the text, I think it looks ok.