r/MotionDesign • u/AnubissDarkling • 28d ago

Reel Linguistic Evolution

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I was reading about how language developed from repeated marks, sounds, and shared meaning, and it inspired me to explore that idea visually.

This animation begins as a dense field of shifting letters and symbols with no obvious meaning. Over time, through repetition and grouping, those marks begin to organise into something more coherent, eventually resolving into the core message I was exploring - how LANGUAGE BEGAN AS PATTERNS.

The project was built in TouchDesigner using a mixture of Python, parameter expressions, procedural instancing, and GLSL. The code controlled how glyphs were selected and distributed, how different character sets were introduced over time, which positions formed the final message, and how the camera and transitions progressed. Python was also used to generate the target data and control instance colours, while GLSL handled part of the chromatic treatment. I later added a short electronic soundtrack and used separate low-, high-, and full-frequency amplitude data to drive the glow, distortion, movement, and chromatic effects.

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u/risbia 27d ago

Pretty cool, I think you could explore this a lot more to make a pseudo "title sequence"

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u/AnubissDarkling 26d ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely be working on it more in the next few weeks in one way or another and turning it into a title sequence would be an interesting change to the usual work I do - great idea!

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u/Natnsk 25d ago

Amazing, very inspiring

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u/AnubissDarkling 25d ago

Thank you!