“Just how insanely eye-popping can one B-Grade film get?” That was the question posed by CGSociety for this year’s B-Movie CG Challenge. Design teams from all over the world competed for hardware and software prizes as well as the exposure with their home-concocted imaginary, freaky-amazing-shock-horror movie trailers and poster designs.
The concept for the print and online campaign of the 2009 edition of the TEDxEdges event in Lisbon was re-imagined for the title sequence by designer/director Filipe Carvalho. Is there a difference between designing main titles for a movie versus an event? According to Carvalho, it’s all about mood. But because there’s no underlying narrative … Continued
Shot in South Korea on a Canon 7D, two English teachers Benjamin Tucker and Myles Lewando created the suspenseful short “Quickly, Go” that looks like a scene from some hip/slick Asian action flick. “This was all done in the mornings and weekends over a period of three months,” explains Lewando in an email. “For the … Continued
Check out this fabulous feature on Motionographer about Prologue‘s motion design elements for Iron Man 2. “The real co-stars—the real palladium in Iron Man’s chest,” according to the author, Justin Cone. A fascinating insight into the art and process of creating the luscious holographic and utterly believable visuals that played such a major role in … Continued
Splice, a new sci-fi thriller by indie director Vincenzo Natali about generatic engineering, starring Adrien Brody, openened in the US today. And we already have the opening title sequence! Eerie, uncanny CG stuff, made by the talented Paris-based designer Kook Ewo. Ewo, who attended the black carpet premiere in L.A. two nights ago, emailed us … Continued
That and feathered fans are just a few of the Neo-Burlesque references in Deubal’s bouncy animated title sequence for the award-winning French movie On Tour (Tournée en Francais) – a road movie about a troupe of American Neo-Burlesque dancers touring France. And when you’re a title designer working with such fancy credits as Kitten on … Continued
Shine designed the gleeful and stylish animated title sequence for the new Jennifer Lopez vehicle ‘The Back-Up Plan.’ reminiscent of 1960s and 1970s illustrations and so-called “limited” animation, the title sequence shows a woman strolling the streets, as “New York icons graphically morph into baby iconography.”
French director Thibaud Noyer turned some heads (Kanye West’s, for one) with his weird ‘Havoc Arise‘ music video for TV Glory last year. So, we’re proud to premiere his brand-new video for Terminus on 2Pause.com. ‘Division Of Time‘ is something else – the video for this synth-heavy psychedelic soundscape (think: Pink Floyd meets Jean-Michelle Jarre) … Continued
The title sequence and the in-game flashback sequences for Sony Playstation‘s flagship action-adventure series God of War are stunningly impressionistic. Designed by Imaginary Forces, we asked IF’s designer/director Karin Fong about her experiences designing her first game title sequence.
The first edition of South by Southwest‘s (SXSW) Excellence in Title Design competition resulted in 18 strong finalists. Wowie‘s stood out because of its original idea combined with a lo-fi approach. “Craig shot the title sequence and I wrote it on Luther’s body with a Sharpie.”
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