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Wednesday at 4:00 AM
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Keeping a sense of scale at arm’s length.
Shadowplay Studios’ opening title sequence for director Jason Reitman’s “Up in the Air” intoxicates us with neatly happenstance compositions of a casual topology from a commuter’s perspective with music by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings that savors common ground. Just below [...]
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Wed March 3, 2010 at 5:55 AM
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A fun step through espionage nostalgia, a ball becomes a blip becomes a bullet becomes a drip connecting the brightly colored character facets in the opening to Adam Reed’s very funny “Archer.”
Art Director Neal Holman details the creation of the title sequence for us.
PROJECT BREAKDOWN
Neal Holman: I animated this [...]
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Mon February 22, 2010 at 5:00 AM
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Two fine fire melt title reveals open Howard Hawks’/Christian Nyby’s “The Thing from Another World” and John Carpenter’s immutable and Hitchcockian “The Thing,” respectively. In speaking with Krystian Morgan, a 21-year-old from Wales we relearned a thing or two about work ethic, humility and the importance of fresh eyes. [...]
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Mon February 8, 2010 at 5:00 AM
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Quick and affordable 3D printing technology applied to classic stop-motion opens Dutch science program “Het Klokhuis” (The Apple Core) which is Holland’s oldest youth television show, covering everything from the history of dinosaurs to how an iPhone is made. It is a hybrid of hand crafted frame-by-frame animation and [...]
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Mon February 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM
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Model kits and kilts.
ISO Design’s opening title sequence to “A History of Scotland” offers a gathering sense of self and of a scaled Scotland. Using a tilt-shift effect that simulates miniature scale model photography where a shallow depth of field is created by blurring areas [...]
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Thu January 21, 2010 at 11:30 AM
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Watery cobblestone logos and longitudinal linotype layer, lace and lash Prologue Films’ opening and end credit work for Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes.”
The sequence creative director Danny Yount, a self-taught Emmy-winning designer/director produced main titles for Six Feet Under and The Grid while at Digital [...]
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Tue December 29, 2009 at 11:06 PM
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With this Strange Days post, 10 years on and to the minute, we begin closing the curtains on our Single Take Titles series. If one of your favorites wasn’t featured, please let us know what we missed.
In the comments readers have mentioned Goodfellas and Russian [...]
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Mon December 21, 2009 at 3:00 AM
“The Steadicam is a combination of several large pieces of equipment, worn on the operator’s body that support the camera. The design of the equipment allows for the operator to walk and move about, without translating his or her footsteps or other vibrations into the lens, and subsequently the shot.” – Steadishots.org
A jitter-free alternative to [...]
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Mon November 30, 2009 at 4:00 AM
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"Development wants, development gets." - Fugazi
A tangle of utility in both architecture and typography offers a fascinatingly structured title sequence for the BBC’s "How We Built Britain" that bespeaks an acquisitive England. The artificial monuments of type seem proportionally sound, the final title card an [...]
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Mon November 23, 2009 at 3:00 AM
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With brassy nationalism and radioactive gaga the opening to director Sam Liu’s Superman/Batman: Public Enemies offers powerful equanimity of oppressed superpowers in this thinly veiled allegory of the republic for which it stands.
Erin Sarofsky, Founder and Creative Director of Sarofsky Corp.:
"We created the feature [...]
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