Sydney-based animation studio Mighty Nice and JWT Melbourne teamed on this typographic journey through book genres for the Melbourne Writers Festival, which began last week and runs through Aug. 30. Given a straight brief to animate type as it is read by a voiceover, Mighty Nice’s Darren Price directed a beautiful and sophisticated rendering of evocative pieces of writing. Using the animation technique “kinetic typography”, where a change of subject is illustrated by a change in type, Mighty Nice talent let their imaginations run wild to stunning effect.
The voiceover was read by writers appearing in the festival and their work spanned the entire spectrum of the literary rainbow, from horror, to romance, to science fiction and war/military drama.
Filmed in HD and transferred to print, the film has been shown at cinemas and on the huge screen in Melbourne’s Federation Square throughout the festival. The brilliant illustrations–little girls turning into skeletons, shadows from trees turning into a fearful gothic scene, zombies, disembodied hands, a lovebird, even crayon renderings that serve to enhance scenes–are a seamless flow of words and pictures that create the major drama and impact needed for the big screen.
Mighty Nice is part of the worldwide roster of talent assembled by U.K. studio Nexus. In fact Nexus and Price, who was Nexus’ one-time head of 3D, co-founded Mighty Nice.
The JWT ensemble included art directors James Orr and Harsh Kapadia, writers Chris Andrews and Carly Williams, and producer Sherry Cheesman.
Price’s colleagues at Mighty Nice were producer Trish Knapp, designer Softly Dunstan and compositor Peter Nizic.
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