Thinking About the First Project

For our first project for English 328, we are supposed to animate the letter of our choice. As you know, I have chosen the letter S. Its forms have varied widely throughout history, and even today its appearance looks so different from one letter s to another. For my animation, I'd like to show the animation of the letter, from the earliest "sword" form to its present state in the English language. I would like to start with something very simple (like perhaps a single dot on a screen), and transform that dot into a line, and that line into the early letters, and the early letters into the modern one.

Just as a side note, I would also think that it would be very interesting to show the evolution of "s" in reverse, starting with the modern and heading toward the primitive forms of it. I think that if I showed my animation in that manner, people would understand more clearly where I am heading with my lines and drawings.