blocks

primitives

What a scene puts on the frame: type fitted to its measure, a shape, a ground, a picture.

• fitted display type

  shots.display

  a line sized so its ink fills the measure, rising whole or glyph by glyph, kerning kept

• living grounds

  fields.mesh fields.aurora fields.caustics fields.stripes

  grounds from the palette and the clock, never still

also: shots.fit, shots.mask, shots.overprint, shots.texture, shots.field, shots.still, pictures.typeMask, pictures.crop, pictures.duotone, shapes.line, shapes.icon, shapes.blob, shapes.morph, shapes.canvas, fields.noise, fields.halftone, fields.riso, fields.paper, fields.blobs, fields.blueprint

motions: enter

How an element arrives. Each is hidden until it starts, and most leave the way they came with `out`.

• glyph effects

  text.effect

  text piece by piece by preset: blur-up, drop, flip, scale, spin, gather, skew, fade, blur

• scramble

  text.scramble

  text decoding from noise of each letter’s own kind, settling in order

• reveals, marks

  motion.reveal motion.highlight motion.underline

  lines rising from their masks, words pulling focus, a marker and a rule drawing in

• spring digits

  text.digits

  reels spinning to a number, blurred by their speed, settling on a spring

• counter, odometer

  motion.counter motion.roll

  numbers counting in tabular figures, and wheels turning

also: motion.mask, shapes.draw

motions: idle

The life a thing has while it holds. Slow, and never still.

• shimmer

  text.shimmer

  dimmed type with a band of light crossing it on a loop

• wave

  text.wave

  a crest of light running through the letters, lifting and lighting each

• glow

  light.glow

  a ring of the palette turning behind a card, and type glowing through the same colours

• breathe, drift, float

  motion.breathe motion.drift motion.float motion.sweep

  a swell, a wander, a bob, and a light sweeping a line

also: motion.alive, motion.marquee

motions: emphasis

A beat that stresses what is already there: a word that changes, a letter that turns, a click.

• roll

  text.roll

  letters rolling over, as faces of a cube or up through a window

• loop

  text.loop

  a word cycling through others in place, the line making room

• morph

  text.morph

  a word becoming the next, its shared letters sliding to their places

• glitch

  text.glitch

  bursts of torn slices and split colour, clean between

• cursor

  motion.cursor

  a pointer travelling on an arc, resting, and clicking

also: motion.sweep

composed shots

A whole beat in one call, built from primitives and motions.

• charts

  charts.bars charts.donut

  bars growing with their values counting, a ring sweeping to its share

• diagram, marks

  shapes.diagram shapes.icon shapes.morph

  nodes popping in and edges drawing; a mark; a shape becoming another

• one picture, many shots

  pictures.crop pictures.split pictures.duotone

  a push into a picture, then its details opening in turn, one in duotone

also: shots.voice, shots.reply, shots.card, shots.stack, shots.send, shots.lockup, shots.ticker, shots.lens, shots.palette, shots.board, charts.line, charts.compare, charts.tiles, charts.number

camera and scene

Blocks that act on the whole frame: the camera, light over everything, the ground changing.

• camera

  camera.rig

  a pan and a push across a world in depth layers, the far one slower

• spotlight

  light.spotlight

  the frame held down but for a pool of light travelling from one thing to the next

• rays

  light.rays

  rays turning slowly from a point behind a hero

also: shots.flood, shots.wipe, shots.blob, shots.grain, shots.wash, shots.roll, shots.place, shots.spoken, shots.typed, shots.lengthIs

hand-offs

How the join carries one scene into the next, each a named move a storyboard gives as a scene's out, tuned with its ease, a point, a colour, and its own settings. Every one here goes between the same two scenes.

• snap push

  out: snap-push

  the next scene shoves the last off with a hard edge and a small overshoot

• glare sweep

  out: glare-sweep

  a band of light sweeps across, the next scene behind it

• deck rise

  out: deck-rise

  the next scene rises as a card; the last sinks back and peeks above it

• dip

  out: dip

  through a colour of the palette

• roaming iris

  out: roaming-iris

  a window onto the next scene travels in and opens

• glow bloom

  out: glow-bloom

  light blooms from a point as the next scene comes through it

• thread ribbon

  out: thread-ribbon

  a line draws across and widens into a ribbon of the next scene

• point arrival

  out: point-arrival

  the next scene flies in from a speck

• mosaic dive

  out: mosaic-dive

  the camera dives into one tile of the grid, which becomes the next scene

• held object

  out: held-object

  one object holds still while the world behind it is swapped

• plane tilt

  out: plane-tilt

  the frame tilts back like a card; the next swings up flat

• hinge swing

  out: hinge-swing

  the next scene swings in like a door

• tile shatter

  out: tile-shatter

  the frame breaks into tiles that spin and fall away

• signal tear

  out: signal-tear

  torn bands and slice shifts glitch one picture into the next

• ripple warp

  out: ripple-warp

  a liquid ripple spreads and carries the next scene in

• glyph swallow

  out: glyph-swallow

  a letter turns and grows past the frame; its fill is the next scene

• lens portal

  out: lens-portal

  a lens shows the next scene inside it, then the camera rushes through

• zoom through

  out: zoom-through

  the camera pushes into the last frame until the next emerges

• blur through

  out: blur-through

  one picture blurs out and the next blurs in

• wipe

  out: wipe

  a soft edge travels across

• flood

  out: flood

  the next scene opens out from the centre

• dissolve

  out: dissolve

  one picture through the other