Motion

This page lists every film on the motion roster with its length and its status. A film is rendered when its final render exists, in production when its folder or research package exists, and planned otherwise. A rendered film plays here when its web copy is published with the site: the two blog films and the three films of the translation series. A final render without a web copy stays in the motion folder and is listed by its path. Each film of the translation series opens its research package, with the script, the post, the vocabulary, the sources and the fact-check list.

Films
12
Rendered
5
In production
1
Planned
6
9 filmsFilms 01 to 09

Films

The brand film, the mark sting, the blog films, the Lottie film, the release board and the showreel, in the order of the roster.

01

Every product in every language

The company in one breath.

45 to 50 s · Planned

02

The bar monogram sting

A logo sting for the start and end of any video.

6 s · Planned

03

Designing docs for humans

The post takes a docs page apart (zones, layers, the reading path, the redline pass, type, alignment, icons, the hit list).

0:43 · Rendered

04

Rewriting docs for humans and agents

Two readers of one page.

20 to 24 s · Planned

05

Fuma Nama, the philosophy of an open-sourcerer

A portrait of Fumadocs' creator and his credo.

0:54 · Rendered

06

Supporting open-source software

The grants announcement.

14 to 18 s · Planned

07

Translated Lottie animations

For the upcoming post about translating Lottie animations.

18 to 22 s · In production · motion/films/lottie-translation

08

The release board

The changelog as a split-flap departure board (a reference the brand names).

14 to 18 s · Planned

09

Showreel

After every film is final, a 40 to 50 s showreel cut from them: the mark sting opens, the strongest four to six seconds of each film follow on hard cuts on the beat grid, the sting's end card closes.

40 to 50 s · assembled last · Planned

3 filmsFilms 10 to 12

Translation series

Three films about how a translation made the words a language uses. Each one has a research package with a script, a post, a vocabulary table, sources and a fact-check list.

10

Ricci, Xu Guangqi, and the Chinese vocabulary of Euclid

A Jesuit and a Hanlin Academy scholar sat down in Beijing to put Euclid into a language that had no word for "definition," "axiom," or "proof."

1:40 · Rendered

11

Waley, Hu Shih, and the English names of Journey to the West

In 1942 George Allen & Unwin in London published Monkey, Arthur Waley's translation of the Ming novel 西遊記 Xiyou ji, Journey to the West.

1:40 · Rendered

12

Ben-Yehuda, Pines, and the vocabulary of Modern Hebrew

In the autumn of 1881, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (אליעזר בן־יהודה) and his wife Devora (דבורה) landed at Jaffa.

1:40 · Rendered