For all graffiti artists out there. Special thanks to another graffiti artist, kix, for the skylines backdrop.

(sorry about the speed of the sample, i had to lower the frame rate in order for it to display properly)

Deep thanks to everyone and the warm reception from everyone getting on DeTrayne. It really means a lot to me.

@kix: I knew you'd dig this from the first time that you shared this. Really glad you enjoy it.

I'm not entirely sure what breaks the Fontstructor. Coincidentally, the first iteration of DeTrayne was probably one of the first fontstructions to break the Save function due to the number of bricks used back in May of last year. Fortunately, Meek was able to salvage most of it, but I eventually reconstructed the whole thing for 2x scale. Meek is the first one I go to w/ any problems (unfortunately for Meek).

@guentersen: Thank you for the inspiration. The peace sign was actually the last addition to the train.

@afrojet: Thanks. It certainly felt that it took as long as your average doctoral thesis.

@SquarePeg: "Style Wars" was a pivotal film for me. I can't say enough praise about it. I also have to give respect to Tony Silver, the director of the film who passed away last year. I'll have to check out "Bomb It." A really good SF graf documentary is "Piece By Piece."

@Em42: This is as complex as it gets for me in terms of the number of bricks used. There are over one hundred total. (I know that probably makes you uneasy ;-) There is probably an expectation for me to put out more complex creations such as this, but I think I'll have to release some small simple ones just to balance things out.

@emepar7: The sample was easily and quickly done in Adobe After Effects using only letters in the font for the animation. The $, %, ^, &, * glyphs contain the doors opening and closing. The train movement is one line of text scrolling from right to left with the sold black train used as the background gradient fill. And kix's skylines adorns the background. The animation is output as an animated gif, but I think there may be a 1 MB file size limitation to post on the discussion boards here.

Thanks, patricknas & Loman.

@Handfratze: Thanks for the comment and suggestion. Sorry for the delay.

DETRAYNE KEYS

A Subway car plain
B Top-2-Bottom Bubble Right
C Geneus Graf
D Top-2-Bottom Bubble Left
E Middle Bubbles
F R.I.P. Dondi
G R.I.P. Dream

space half length underline track
, heart
@ bubble cloud pattern
underline empty track

* Full Doors Open
# Bottom Clouds
$ Full Doors Closed
% Doors Opening 25%
^ Doors Open 50%
& Doors Open 75%

( Bottom Clouds Right
) Bottom Clouds Left
+ Blank Car
- half length underline track

: Peace sign
; Open Window Subway car
less Left side train destroyed
= Mid train destroyed
greater Right side train destroyed
[ Full Car Cloud wave left
\ Full Cloud car
] Full Car Cloud wave right
` Full Car Silhouette
{ Paint Drips Right
| Full Car Paint Drips
} Paint Drips Left