After writing down dozens of potential word combos this one stood out to me when I was listening to the song "Never Meant" by American Football (imagine that). There's obvious football inspiration in the shape of "meant" and the script is meant to be "noodly," the way I'd describe the guitars on that record. It's silly, but I'm into it.

Overall I'm reasonably happy, although I struggled with keeping the script "noodly" as I was drawing it out, it almost seems more liquid. I really enjoyed this though and will probably end up doing more stuff like it in the future.

never / meant - image 1 - student project

(ig: @alright__fine)

Beginners tip for whoever might find it helpful: When I first started doing the wobbly loop animation for the static words, my letters were undulating wildly because of size differences between the frames. I found it helpful to clone the layer, erase the outlines, and redraw them rather than tracing and filling from scratch east time. That way, you still get the difference that makes the letters "wobble," but you don't have massive differences that make for wonky animations if you're impatient/inconsistent with your tracing like I was when I started.

Mark Newell

Alright, Fine

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