Problem: Create a text animation of 30 seconds of a famous speech or song.

My Solution: Animate a speech in Charlie Chaplin’s film The Great Dictator!

For this project, I knew that I wanted to animate this speech because I thought the content, although from 1940, is still relevant with this political climate and our modern society.

Since the speech essentially takes a journey from discussing the current negative situation to giving a message of hope and positivity for the future, I wanted to begin the animation with black and white colors and end with vibrant, bright and colorful animations.

To reflect the power and urgency in Charlie Chaplin’s voice, I designed the visuals to be complex and reflect the same quick pace of the speech, thus creating an explosion for the viewer to digest. This was a fun challenge, and I can’t wait to do more text animations!