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FALLING UP 

Type in Motion

MOME 105 | FALL 2026

Lyric video for “Penrose” by Lexie Liu

A kinetic typography video for Lexie Liu’s “Penrose,” a song about being trapped on stairs that loop forever. Lyrics climb, fall, and break apart in black, white, and deep-sea blue, cut to the beat until the chorus turns falling into flying.

a03.mp4

PROCESS

Music & Lyrics:

Penrose single cover by Lexie Liu: a blue vinyl record with a figure in fog at its center

Mind-map &  Color palette:

Mind map for Penrose: tone, feeling, concept, visual elements and design approach
Color palette: deep teal, charcoal, steel blue, gray and off-white

Storyboard:

Storyboard page 1: crow, stairs, maze and eye sketches
Storyboard page 2: opening shots with the record player and figure

Style frames:

Style frame: a halftone crow on a branch with the lyric about a sleeping crow in vertical Chinese type
Style frame: blue lyric type scattered through gray clouds
Style frame: a single Chinese character over a diagonal concrete staircase
Style frame: the words FALLING UP repeated in glowing blue type

The Procreate & Illustrator Process:

Procreate: a glowing white silhouette of a figure
Procreate: a looping staircase drawn in grayscale
Illustrator: tracing an arched door shape as vector outlines

The After Effect Process:

After Effects: a standing figure with vertical lyric type, keyframed on the timeline
After Effects: white clouds composited against a deep blue sky
After Effects: the Trapped in the Penrose title over a silhouette
After Effects: a wave of black ink moving across a white frame
After Effects: a collage of Chinese lyric type and a crow wing with many stacked layers
After Effects: glowing white lyric type flickering inside a dark frame

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