Opening Titles
Starting work on Bear Town again, it makes sense to start at the beginning. I have always been a fan of really creative opening sequences, especially the work of Kyle Cooper and his company Prologue Films. I've always had a bit of a block about what Bear Town's opening sequence should be like and so recently I have been looking for inspiration.
I went to see Juno last weekend and really loved its hand-drawn animated opening credits by Shadowplay Studio, which have been creating a lot of buzz on the internet lately (you can watch them above via YouTube, but a higher quality version can be found here).
Shadowplay also did the opening credits for Thank You For Smoking, which like Juno was also directed by Jason Reitman (for a higher quality version click here).
On the puppet podcasting front, I really like the titles/credits that Brian Hogg creates for his various podcasts. The dotBoom opening (above) is one of my favourites and the opening to his Inside Hoggworks video blog features some great use of typography.
I'm still not sure what I am going to do, but I have been playing with the idea of incorporating shadow puppets or at least a shadow puppet aesthetic. A few years ago I was involved with the development of a 2D digital puppetry system called Flash Puppet that allowed puppeteers to create Flash animation using puppetry for a proposed cable show called Suzie Shadow. The project never got green lighted, but it would be fun to play with the technology again.
I will have to think about this a little more. Until then, if like me you're interested in film titles and motion graphics, a great web site to visit is Forget The Film, Watch The Titles.
I went to see Juno last weekend and really loved its hand-drawn animated opening credits by Shadowplay Studio, which have been creating a lot of buzz on the internet lately (you can watch them above via YouTube, but a higher quality version can be found here).
Shadowplay also did the opening credits for Thank You For Smoking, which like Juno was also directed by Jason Reitman (for a higher quality version click here).
On the puppet podcasting front, I really like the titles/credits that Brian Hogg creates for his various podcasts. The dotBoom opening (above) is one of my favourites and the opening to his Inside Hoggworks video blog features some great use of typography.
I'm still not sure what I am going to do, but I have been playing with the idea of incorporating shadow puppets or at least a shadow puppet aesthetic. A few years ago I was involved with the development of a 2D digital puppetry system called Flash Puppet that allowed puppeteers to create Flash animation using puppetry for a proposed cable show called Suzie Shadow. The project never got green lighted, but it would be fun to play with the technology again.
I will have to think about this a little more. Until then, if like me you're interested in film titles and motion graphics, a great web site to visit is Forget The Film, Watch The Titles.
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