›If you want to get into graffiti, you should pay attention to this!‹

Blurb:

From upcoming communication designer Klaas van Kreis comes this remarkable and exciting animated short movie. This exhilarating animation gives you a brief introduction into the fascinating urban subculture ›graffiti‹, and explains you in an incredibly simple way how to become a professional writer yourself in no time.

 

This Video can also be found on YouTube. Please make sure you leave a comment or a constructive criticism.

 

Want to know how it was done?

  1. Bought a flight to Budapest
  2. Wrote the script
  3. Printed the text, traced it, scanned and vectorized it
  4. Recorded the voice at the sound studio of a friend
  5. Synchronized the text and sound and animated the whole thing
  6. I could finally take a nap

That’s it, basically. Maybe you want to give it a try aswell? Here are some facts that might interest you, if you are planning on doing an animation like this yourself.

  • 6.3 min length =
  • 1 script
  • 47 pages of text
  • 150 graphics
  • 500 sheets of paper
  • 1585 words to animate
  • 1680 hours of work (ca.)

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Kreis (Kreis One) is not an active writer. I created this name primarily for this video, so I don’t get into trouble with the police, annoyed vigilantes or anyone else who thinks that he just found out who painted his wall back in the days. I decided to use a fake name (which through a long research didn’t seem to be used by anyone else), because my old name is part of my past that I left behind and I did not want to reuse if for this animation. By no means I intend to displease any active writer who sees this video and thinks that Kreis is an actual writer who intends to promote himself. As the name turned out to suit me perfectly, I now use it as a new alias.

I sincerely want to apologize for any confusion or discomfort that came with this film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TECHNICAL DATA

  • TITLE: ›From Toy to King‹
  • MEDIUM: animation, type-kinetics, 6.30 min, HD (1280 x 720px)
  • STATUS: Bachelor of Arts Project
  • SPACE OF TIME: 2009
  • MENTORING: Prof. Uli Plank & Dr. Grzegorz Zgraja
  • UNIVERSITY: HBK Braunschweig
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  • http://www.vimeo.com/klaasvankreis
  • http://www.youtube.com/kreisone

 
SOUND

  • BEATS: Chewo Beats
  • AUDIO MIXING: Christian Meyerholz
  • VOICE: Klaas van Kreis

 

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