Ikea by Jonathan Coulton (kinetic typography)

[urchinfive]

This was great! Really well done love it :D

[Soapmackey]

Do the Pia Ikea version!

[Commanderf6]

What program do you use?

[iTwyzer]

@Commanderf6 Adobe After Effects for the typography part with Lagarith codec, and then zarx gui for demuxing the video with the song

[Commanderf6]

@iTwyzer Noice!

[MegaJeff666]

gay song, sick typography.

[SolarFlairIsBestPony]

Thumbs up if Pia Ikea is the reason you're here.

[Manatherindrell]

Ponies brought me here.

[TheNameIsSalem]

What's with all the norse stuff?!

[neos1234125]

@TheNameIsSalem Ikea is Swedish. That area is where the Norse were from. Hence Norsemen

[Lilllw]

ikea meatballs tasty indeed

[AMVPh34r]

I think the only problem I had with it was occasionally when a few words were right next to each other and were all in the same color, so they all look jumbled together and hard to read. Other than that, it looks really well done. And very good for a first AE project!

[CatGracelyng]

and a handful of norseman!

[Matakshaman]

Ikea in a nutshell :D

[IdiotWithTheBlueEyes]

my birthday party was at ikea!!!!!!!!!

[tommyguam92]

@IdiotWithTheBlueEyes really?.......sad bro

[Deadeye3824]

Meatballs Tasty

[3upfront]

Isn't it divorced man, not men? Still, I like the way the words get random and go backwards and all crazy. Kudos! You wanna do one for my band 3upFront?

[DCTriv]

@3upfront No, it's divorced men.

[tommyguam92]

@3upfront Divorced men is plural. Multiple Divorced men.

[Okarter]

Very good. I enjoyed the song with the lyrics.

[LGmind]

the green doesn't really work.. the rest! really good

[Ampersand888]

You spent way too much time on this. Good job!

[maccusportugal]

i used to go to IKEA, but then i took an arrow to the knee.

[Okarter]

@maccusportugal HAHAHAHHA I was going to write the same thing but i took an arrow to the knee.

[HyperactiveRabbit]

wff is ikea ?

[CViFi]

@HyperactiveRabbit Are you serious? in case you are:

IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. (wikipedia)

[winfr34k]

My chair is from Ikea, so may I call it Karl now? :D

[vulcanoooooo]

Sorry friend...may i know which font do u used?

[iTwyzer]

@vulcanoooooo Savings Bond

[redconversetheorem]

@FruityWilly He's not.

[Diamonandia]

IKEA!

ILU JONATHAN

:'D

[sunnygagn0n9]

hahahahaha ikea ha that made my day

[JeshTehObsessed]

YEAH!!

I LOVE IKEA! IT'S SWEDISH! FUCK YEAH! HAHAHAHA

[LUNK1313]

家具のIKEAじゃないよな……？



[d1rcwill]

Not really 'kinetic typography' as 'a fancy way of showing the lyrics', but good. Kinetic typography is more where the words do what they do, so like... the intro "long ago in days of yore" would be in the context of something like the old tapestries in that font, etc. See 'Shop·Vac' and see how stuff like the word 'dog'... is a dog, etc. Nice attempt, clean visual style.

[iTwyzer]

@d1rcwill According to Wikipedia 'Kinetic typography—the technical name for 'moving text'—is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation.' There are many ways of doing so, and while this is a light one, the Shop Vac has many plus features. Simply, other ways of doing kinetic typography.

[kaitzi]

@iTwyzer "...an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation" exactly - it's there in the definition. You don't really express the idea with the motion and text. D1rcwill expressed a valid criticism of your work - along with some compliments - and it's pretty rude to just brush that off.

[Pr0Fect]

@iTwyzer That's right, but then again; anyone could type any bullshit on Wikipedia.

You'd be stupid to take it's word for it.

[danzaistrike]

@iTwyzer there was a time when wikipedia said that the 3 ring binder was invented by colonel potter from mash.... just saying

[mccartney2011]

@danzaistrike True. I was looking up WWE stuff (yes I like WWE; fuck off haters) and I went to the WWE Championship article, and it said that the oldest WWE champion ever was Lord Voldemort and that the youngest was Harry Potter. Wikipedia really needs to work on that vandalism problem.

[josephchar]

How come the lyrics didn't spell out IKEA at the end?

[TheJessp3]

Haha I love this. Check out the video called shop vac. It's by the same guy and SO cool!

[TheMilodron]

Really great video, especially for your first go. Keep up the good work!

[daveZaiyajin]

I will go to IKEA today!

[tommyguam92]

@daveZaiyajin Me too, but only because I have to work....

[ferretboy96]

I always get a little excited when I see that font in a typography movie. It's like saying, "I learned after effects straight from one tutorial! Ha!" Savings Bond is always the mark of someone who watched Markus Gustafsson on aetuts. lol

[kiwibird42]

Pretty damn impressive for your first AE project!!

[MLAProductions]

This is excellent! I hope you got an A.

[zaytiify]

Шрифт уёбищен.

[HipboyScott]

This would have been great if set in Verdana Bold

[FnordicQueen]

Re: the "goddamn Swedish parade in New Jersey"--too bad Mr. Coulton isn't as strong on American history as consumerism.

The New Sweden colony included the first settled cities in the mid-Atlantic and in fact consisted largely of Forest Finns. These were indigenous Finno-Ugrians genocided over many years by Sweden and Russia. Very few escaped to Sweden, then to the New World. IKEA sited its first US store in the old Forest Finn highlands of Pennsylvania.

[thegreatninjaman]

you should do "big boom' by jonathan coulton

[LaughingHyenaxD]

Can you do "your brains" in typography?

[iTwyzer]

@LaughingHyenaxD I can, and probably sometime I will. I just miss time and the proper incentive :)

[Aaronlime1]

@LaughingHyenaxD Search "Shop Vac (kinetic typegraphy animation) it should be by Jmheather, and That really is Kinetic typography, not this, So @itwyzer , but i had to prove that @d1rcwill was right.

[Aaronlime1]

@Aaronlime1 *Sorry

[lame2cool]

I thought they said goddamn thor lol

[bnabound]

Love it! Well done! :)

[beastofpb]

I always thought it was "college kids in divorcement."

[jsmcnally22]

2 people don't know how to use allen wrenches.

[russ826]

Love this song, and you did an amazing job in After Effects! Love to pick your brain on this a bit...was going to do a similar project!

[halfnhalf1011]

haha GREAT :D

[AdamsAppleAnnecy]

ahahahahahaha epic!

[danniyandnath]

hehe kwl

[GabePuratekuta]

Awesome!!

[rfgggg]

it has the the tune of the future is soon....

[mike3667]

What font is this?

[iTwyzer]

@mike3667 Its Savings Bond. You can find it on Dafont.

[mike3667]

@iTwyzer

Thanks mate!

[TempestBob]

@iTwyzer Savings?

How apt! :)

That was pretty damn good for a first project too.

Not too keen on the 4 instead of For at 1:20, but that's a personal gripe against a current trend... lol

Keep up the good work! :D

[iTwyzer]

@TempestBob Thanks! :)

[Zuldim]

Thank you for actually making a video for Ikea that's not just some stupid image slideshow and actually has lyrics. Typographed lyrics at that.

[iTwyzer]

@Zuldim Its my pleasure.

[ErinandZach]

win!

[MetalShadowChaos]

Why are most of the comenters German?

[iTwyzer]

@MetalShadowChaos why do you think they're germans?

[MetalShadowChaos]

@iTwyzer instinkt.(i think its spelt like that...)

[iTwyzer]

@MetalShadowChaos well, i guess you meant anticipation. however, we're not german, but hungarian :)

[rfgggg]

@MetalShadowChaos because were like that.......

[ejkosz]

volt benne egy pár lag, de alapvetően tetszik. mindig tetszettek az ilyen vidieók/reklámok ahol a szöveg össze vissza ment :)

(mondjuk a végére kicsit uncsi volt, de itt gondolom kifejezetten a szövegre és annak animációjára mentél rá)

[iTwyzer]

valójában megtetszett a szám, és gondoltam kipróbálom az after effectset :)

(igen, tudom, hogy idővel unható, de ezt részben a stílus adja)

[iTwyzer]

edit: a kicsi lag néha azért van, mert sokmindent csináltam renderelés közben

[ElSenseiHernan]

Nice!