Soquili Font: ready to proceed!!!

[Gare]

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:




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

-g

[Christine Farrelly]

I'll do 14-19.

Christine

[Gare]

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

[Christine Farrelly]

Question - do we really need the obvious masculine element to remain?

[angelize]

I guess it's suitable that the horse is a stallion, but I'll defer to Gary on this

For anyone who hasn't volunteered for a font project before you can see in the Roundhead TG thread how the process works

[Gare]

I feel what I have to say here needs to strike a fine balance between calling too much attention to a detail in a subject, and ignoring the question altogether.

In brief: yes, the 26 images need to be traced over as they are. If individuals start editing their work based on what they feel comfortable seeing or drawing, then the animation won’t work, nor will the font represent a unified group effort.

Let me say that if anyone on this thread has downloaded the files (I see several downloads) and doesn’t want to help complete the project for any reason, write me a PM to keep this diversion on this thread to a minimum. I really would like this post to be the last on the subject Christine is asking about.

Moreover, neither I nor the members I know here, would make a judgment on a personal decision not to participate, for whatever reason.

I really didn’t mean to light any fuses here, so let me briefly explain a little about this animation, its background and an observation about the project as a whole.

Our Administrator, also known as Barbara Bouton, came to me with the idea of a horse animation font, while we were collectively creatively stalled on what to do typographically to honor the memory of Bill Taylor. Once we proposed the idea publicly and it was met with approval, I bought the model of a stallion—a male horse—and the animation tracks online and Barbara and I agreed upon the purchase and she saw the model and my progress with it along the way. And had and has no problem with it as a person or as a woman.

I chose a highly detailed stallion because I always start a project with good data. Bill Taylor is a man, thus the choice of a stallion and not a mare as a 3D model was an appropriate one. The optimum angle for rendering a gallop is from the side, where unavoidably the gender of a horse can be noticeable. Not obvious, not the focal point of this illustration, but a fairly innocuous bump is there, yes.

I cannot say that I ever gave this area even the slightest thought while working on the animation and the frames, and thinking about it, I don’t think it’s because I’m a guy. It’s because this is an animal, and unless one lives in a city their entire life, you are bound to see nude animals—animals in a natural state (as opposed to cats people dress up!)—at petting zoos, on ranches and farms, and even in motion pictures depicting American settlers and Native Americans—of which Bill shared a heritage.

There is no detail in the area I’m addressing, absolutely nothing suggestive of any action other than being part of a galloping horse.

I've written too much, sorry! Can we get back to the project?

Thanks!

Gary

[angelize]

Ok so we've got Larry and Christine each doing a set Anyone else out there want to take part in this tribute to Bill?

Rik, you indicated in the other thread you would like to help do you still want to?