I want to tell you a story… a story about my dream|
Hi!
I’m Liza.
I’m a motion designer.
But first and foremost, I’m just a person, who loves stories|
What do I mean by that? Let me explain.
My main goal is to tell stories through motion. I love it when something can take on meaning beyond a single medium. I write texts, then build them visually with graphics and typography and bring them together with motion.Animation becomes a continuation of the original thought: it sets the rhythm, the pauses, the intonation, and lets the story come alive in a new form. For me, text and motion merge into a single language of storytelling|
You’ll get me if you love unusual stories, or unusual ways of telling them.
It usually happens in several stages:
01.
Idea and concept|
First, I need to understand what I’m working with. The idea holds the essence. Without it, there’s no text and no visuals|
This is a fragment from a book that began as a collection of personal notes. The chapter is about the system, and its design reflects its title. Still, the texts look more chaotic than a reader might expect, and there’s a reason for that, though it reaches beyond the chapter itself|
02.
Story|
A short story, a script, a small sketch: it grows out of the idea and takes shape as text|
As I mentioned, all the texts were written separately over several years. What you see here is just a selection of archived notes. I didn’t have to invent anything new. My task was to piece together what already existed and tie it to a single concept|
03.
Digital image|
Typography and graphics give the story its first visual form. It settles onto a print-like layout, setting the initial rhythm and intonation|
Despite the chaos that strikes you right away, «The System» has its own system behind the way it’s assembled. The words try to break out of their frames and refuse to obey strict rules. They all belong to groups, and each group has its own role. For example, the central group forms a single phrase regardless of the other elements. The rest work the same way: they keep the tempo and rhythm throughout the chapter, but each group keeps its own rather than a shared one|
04.
Motion|
The final element, born from everything above. Sometimes it’s something simple, almost a repetition of what’s already there. Sometimes it starts speaking a language of its own|
example of motion
Animation wasn’t originally planned here, but it suits stories like this and adds to the narrative. The texts begin to interact even more with each other and with the space around them|
