Personal Choice Project - Anime Take Over!

Shiki's main stars

The Grand Revealing..~



The PCP was given to us and for a while I had a vague idea of what I wanted to achieve but I found difficulty making it fit into the guidelines. And finally, I've worked out how it's going to play out. This makes me a stupidly happy bunny. It's right in my comfort zone. It should play out in my favour. I'm so excited!

It's my Personal Choice!

As a hobby, I like to make MMV/AMV's (Anime/Manga Music Videos) it's something I picked up pretty quickly and it's something I never get bored over. I absolutely enthuse over throwing together scenes from my favourite anime's to create a cute montage, or an emotional roller coaster. It's like a giant puzzle and you decide the final image. I'm using this to my advantage!

I'll be using the horror anime Shiki, based upon Vampire's dominating over the Humans until they decide to strike back.

I'm hoping to achieve..

Taken from the Broken Inside MEP

Shiki has a massive emotional message behind all the blood shed, which I really enjoyed. I managed to follow it throughout the entire series and it's impression on me is something I'm having trouble forgetting. The series as a whole has a lot of different aspects but the emotional hit was a big one for me.


My video is going to focus on the view of the vampires. They're portrayed as the bad guys, obviously because they're killing off the humans. But I think they're misjudged and I want to help get this opinion across with my short video.

I will be creating my own type using font struct and using it to piece together the video. Originally, I wanted to create something fancy but I think that combining two fonts will be more effective. I started creating a font, which you can see above, but I don't think it fits what I'm trying to achieve. I am going to create a more simple.. Basic type to use in my video then include a typical script font to highlight particular parts of my video.


The idea is to create a montage of scenes from Shiki, and overlay a soft piano tune while adding emotional speeches from the vampiric characters. The type will be used to subtitle the messages.

Taken from the Palace of Horror AMV

What's the Inspirations?

Inspiration wise, it's hard to say. I believe my typography skills are good enough to make the videos message effective to my audience, however Anime is not my strong point with editing. I do prefer moving image, but I always love a challenge. I'll leave a few of my AMV inspirations at the bottom of the post (as always) and below you will find my moodboard. Hopefully that lets you get a feel of the outcome of my project.

That's all you're getting so far! I'm not letting any sneaky previews out so far, I want to put them up after the videos up for a bit of extra detail. That's it for now so..

Watch this Space~! <3

We Are Not The Monsters AMV by Gerroth

Dragula AMV by VovanKoperativ

Sitting on the Moon Content AMV by RDC98

Red Star MEP by ShadCatMastered

Palace of Horror AMV by YumePalaceStudio

Broken Inside MEP by Izaya91

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Class addition +Font Struct.

Long time no see~

I haven't found the time to update my blog in a while, and I offer my apologies for that. HOWEVER, I won't drag this post on. Those interested in my last few weeks in class can check out the link to my Pinterest and flick through the 'My Type's' board. (:

As for my class projects, they will be summed up in another post. Keep an eye out~!

More Recently - Font Struct.

We were introduced to Font struct. At first, I wasn't particularly interested. Then I got to making my own font. Now, I'm starting to really enjoy it. There is a few limitations and irritations because you have to closely think about the over all design and structure of each letter and symbol.

To the left you'll see some sketches I did in class that I wanted to try and recreate into Fontstruct. I like the idea behind fantasy lettering, like runic and demonic. I'd love to try and create something of that inspiration and design. Something I could use in future and work from to create projects of my own. It makes me excited to even think about! :)



Form a grid, shape up each square and there's your letter! At least, that was my mind set with this set of projects. I never really looked up other type designs, I like the challenge of pulling something out of thin air and making it work out. I think I did alright this time!

I finally got my hands on the website itself, and I have one currently in progress font. I tried to go for a demonic, evil feel to the font but still kept it rather elegant. I found a curved point block, like a spiral tail, and I made it my goal to make it work. And I think I have. I really like the unique style between each letter, but how they still all work together as an overall font. However, I do worry about how it will fit together when it's used. Only time will tell~

Class Act - Sky Build

Fun times! Pah-drake dumped a load of strange bits and bobs onto a table and told us to get our hands dirty. I'm not entirely sure what the purpose behind this class was, but it was bloody good fun that's for sure. I'll look at it as a team building exercise, and I believe it was a success!



I tool a few smaller items to create my own tower, the idea was to create something tall and trying to keep the unstable features.. Stable. If at all possible. I had a bit of a challenge considering I picked up the big branch. I had no idea how to stack it up effectively, but after a few smaller towers using just the wood. I eventually managed to stack the wood in such a way that would support the unstable base of the branch. It wasn't the bigger tower but it was a personal achievement! Go me!


After a personal experience with our bits and bobs, we grouped up as a team and created something bigger! We managed to build 2 in total but their stability wasn't reliable and both crashed down before we could show them off to the others. Over all, this class was really enjoyable. Nerve wrecking, but fun!

Class Act - Class Struct

After a few experiences with font struct in our own time, we were all pulled together as a class to create our very own type face! The sketches for this class can be found on my pinterest board. The idea is that we had 4 minutes to design the letter A, then 4 were picked and 1 was voted to create the letter
 in font struct. By the end of the class we had our own widely varied font.

I absolutely loved this class. It was exciting to see how many difference ideas came out from every member of the class. Not one person stuck with a specific style throughout the entire class, we all spun off in different directions.



That's it so far! Don't forget there will be another post within the next week or so regarding my Font book. I'll also offer a little insight into my personal project which has been kept a pretty big secret so far (Who knows why..)

Watch this Space~! <3

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