Motion

Every film on the General Translation motion roster, with its length and its status. Each rendered film plays here from the copy the site publishes.

A film is rendered when its final render exists, in production when its folder or research package exists, and planned otherwise. A final render without a web copy stays in the motion folder, and its row gives the path.

Section 1Films 01 to 09

Films

The brand film, the mark sting, the blog films, the Lottie film, the release board and the showreel, in the order of the roster.

01

Every product in every language

The company in one breath.

45 to 50 s · Planned

02

The bar monogram sting

A logo sting for the start and end of any video.

6 s · Planned

03

Designing docs for humans

The post takes a docs page apart (zones, layers, the reading path, the redline pass, type, alignment, icons, the hit list).

Contact sheet and script
v4 cut in review, 53.5 s

0:43 · Rendered

04

Rewriting docs for humans and agents

Two readers of one page.

20 to 24 s · Planned

05

Fuma Nama, the philosophy of an open-sourcerer

A portrait of Fumadocs' creator and his credo.

Contact sheet and script
v4 cut in review, 59.5 s

0:54 · Rendered

06

Supporting open-source software

The grants announcement.

14 to 18 s · Planned

07

Translated Lottie animations

For the upcoming post about translating Lottie animations.

18 to 22 s · In production · motion/films/lottie-translation

08

The release board

The changelog as a split-flap departure board (a reference the brand names).

14 to 18 s · Planned

09

Showreel

After every film is final, a 40 to 50 s showreel cut from them: the mark sting opens, the strongest four to six seconds of each film follow on hard cuts on the beat grid, the sting's end card closes.

40 to 50 s · assembled last · Planned

Section 2Films 10 to 12

Translation series

Three films about how a translation made the words a language uses. Each one has a research package with a script, a post, a vocabulary table, sources and a fact-check list.

10

Ricci, Xu Guangqi, and the Chinese vocabulary of Euclid

A Jesuit and a Hanlin Academy scholar sat down in Beijing to put Euclid into a language that had no word for "definition," "axiom," or "proof."

Contact sheet
200 frames · PNG, 17.4 MB
Script
25 lines · 100 s cut
In review
v2, 74.8 s

1:40 · Rendered

11

Waley, Hu Shih, and the English names of Journey to the West

In 1942 George Allen & Unwin in London published Monkey, Arthur Waley's translation of the Ming novel 西遊記 Xiyou ji, Journey to the West.

Contact sheet
200 frames · PNG, 2.2 MB
Script
22 lines · 100 s cut
In review
v2, 73.0 s

1:40 · Rendered

12

Ben-Yehuda, Pines, and the vocabulary of Modern Hebrew

In the autumn of 1881, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (אליעזר בן־יהודה) and his wife Devora (דבורה) landed at Jaffa.

Contact sheet
200 frames · PNG, 4.4 MB
Script
18 lines · 100 s cut
In review
v2, 69.6 s

1:40 · Rendered