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PAYEN
Franck Payen
Paris-based graphic artist Franck Payen plays bass guitar in the local band
(the) Kandinsky Complex
(
http://thekandinskycomplex.band-camp.com
)
. After
completing an album, Franck created a sound-based Adobe Edge
animation featuring music, images, and typographic titles that used
Illustrator CC's Touch Type tool. Franck started by creating an Area Type
object and typed the song's lyrics using the slab serif font Black Oak. Next,
he created multiple art-boards that he would use later in exporting artwork
for animation. Then he went through the Area Type object and copied lyrics
and pasted them as separate Area Text objects on the artboards. Using the
Direct Selection tool, he adjusted the width of several of the type objects.
Then, to graphically modify the words, Franck selected the Touch Type tool
(Shift-T) and adjusted the position, size, and rotation of some of the letters in
the lyrics. He changed the color of words by selecting and changing their fill
to different colors and tints. Because the type remained editable, Franck
could change words when the band's singer decided to refine the lyrics.
When Franck finished, he exported each artboard as an SVG file and then
imported the files into Adobe Edge Animate to create the HTML5 animation.
