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    Exclamation Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

    Okay, I bashed myself over this for two days straight and I think I have some materials that need tracing, so we can make the Soquili TG font a reality now.

    First, let's backtrack because this thread has been static for a while. The Soquili tg font will consist of 26 characters, each character will be one frame of a horse galloping. So people who use this font can make nice borders and such for rodeos and horse shows, whatever, but if they use the Animation Frame Gallery, and type successive characters on each frame, the result will be the animation I have here, except it'll be black and white only.

    Now excuse any flaws in continuity because I can't get it much better. 26 is a weird number for frames, and the tail and mane are a little crude, because I drew these mostly without guides in After Effects. The tail certainly could use tapering at the ends of the strands, but you all will get the general idea:





    I'm also attaching four zip files. Each one contains a frame, a JPEG that's 1280 by 720 (a 720p video, in digital measurements).

    I'm not in charge of this project, but I figure the way this can go is: take a zip file. Each one contains 6 or 7 JPEGs. You don't have to do all 6, but it's a good idea to report in this thread which frames you volunteer to do.

    Closed paths only, please. A font is one color, and we usually consider this to be black. White comes in where there is no path, it's transparent, just like holds in shapes you create.

    Now this is a big "perhaps": perhaps instead of repeating the 26 glyphs for upper and lowercase, you draw the corresponding shadow, so each shadow—like for G and for g, corresponds. You could make a really neat animation with a black horse and a light grey shadow, you know? It's more work, I'll let the group decide.

    Once I've downloaded the results of this group tracing (you upload your work as a Xara file as an attachment here), I will review them, do a little tweaking in Font Lab for the sake of visual continuity, and in a few days I'll post the font and all the paperwork for it to be a SIL piece of work we can all be proud of being a part of. And a very loving tribute to Bill "Soquili" Taylor.

    This one's for you, Billy J.

    My Best,

    Gary
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    Default Re: Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

    This is splendid news Gary!

    For anyone just tuning in this is a continuation of this thread

    Although I think to make sure we don't all start tracing the same set of glyphs I propose that we first post here to say which set we are tracing, and just a reminder if you want to help out we do need you to post a release for the SIL licensing if you have not already done so here.

    I'll start by volunteering to do 1-6
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    Default Re: Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

    I haven't been able to view them yet but I'll take 7-13

    EDiT: Makes a real nice animation Gare.
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    Default Re: Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

    OK Gare, I looked at the zips and my question is how are we going to handle the main and tail so they all look alike?
    Larry a.k.a wizard509

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    Default Re: Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

    Let's do this: trace the entire image off as it is, remain faithful to the image, and I'll do the editing before I compile the font.

    1 person editing=consistency, right?

    By the way, you do not have to commit to doing 6 or 7 drawings, just because I packed them that way. If you only want to do three, for example, make a post, "I volunteer to do numbers 20, 21, and 22".

    Yes, the point is to have only one person doing a frame, so we should post which ones a person is responsible for.

    A single frame looks like this:


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    I'd just say try to keep the interpretation faithful to the JPEG image, and I will try to make them all conform to a consistent style when I compile the font.

    @Frances, yes, agreed on signing off on the work. Can you please copy or link to the last font we did to provide and example of signing off, so it's easy for the volunteers?

    TIA,

    Gary

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    Default Re: Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

    I'll do 14-19.

    Christine

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    Default Re: Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

    Terrific, thanks all!

    That leaves only 20 through 26.

    If there's a general question about how we move this font to the finish line, please post it here, where angelize or I will try to answer it.

    If it's a technical question—how to accomplish something in your trace in Xara, or size or display on the page—if you feel your posr won't benefit the group, you are welcome to PM me.

    Okay, I'm jazzed. This tribute font has been tossed around for almost half a year; now I can visualize it!

    My Best,

    Gary

 

 

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