motion lyrics

Posted on August 8, 2008 by proctor

the use of “motion lyrics” seems to be gaining popularity. you might have seen these at a Steve Fee concert, the Chris Tomlin tour, or at a Passion conference. Even Integrity Music has overhauled their iWorship videos and are producing them as flexible motion lyric video files.

one of my friends, Brandon Horner, has started creating his own custom motion lyrics for his church in NW Arkansas. Check out his YouTube page where he is posting them. he used Apple’s Motion and Adobe After Effects…and i’m glad to say that he’ll be teaching me some of this next week. Here’s what he created for “God of This City”.

have you seen motion lyrics in use at all? are you creating any for your band/church/etc?

~ proctor

4 people have shared their voice

  1. I wrote a bit on a related topic (code-driven animations that have “trigger tracks” for things like beats and lyrics).

    Check this mind-blowing entry from Flight404 – code-viz’d lyrics.

    Allan White on August 8, 2008

  2. I’ve though about making some “on the fly” motion lyric pieces. Using Motion to create clips with just a single verse or chorus in each clip, then put them in my script, key out the background over some cool video, and fire whatever part of the song I want.

    Jeffrey Holland on September 3, 2008

  3. At Catalyst this year they used all kinds of motion graphics. I’m not sure if it was just Steve Fee’s stuff or what, but it was phenominal~

    Alex Morrison on October 12, 2008

  4. I agree the worship graphics at Cataylst were awesome…I was at another conference with Steve Fee, and he had similar graphics. I wonder if they are his, or if it’s something they have put together with North Point or Passion. I sure wish there was a good resource for more of this kind of stuff.

    Jason on October 24, 2008