You’ve got to give it up for Momoco. This small London studio did what many title designers only dream of – they made their own film. Copelia is a short, intelligent sci-fi love story that features some of the most hallucinogenic futurescapes we’ve ever seen. A true Renaissance Man, designer Nic Benns wrote, directed, edited, … Continued
Prologue’s Simon Clowes crafted a crisp and clean Maurice Binder-esque graphical representation of what lies at the very core of the formidable powers of the X-Men superheroes: gene mutation. In this Making Of X-Men: First Class, Clowes talks about his title sequence, the lasting appeal of the classic Main Titles by Bass and Binder, and … Continued
Tipped off by the mere hint that Hollywood heavyweight actor Edward Norton would be directing and producing a motion feature based on a novel by Jonathan Lethem, French graphic and motion designer Remy Le Rumeur rolled onto an ambitious venture to create his version of the opening titles to the anticipated “Motherless Brooklyn” movie. Immersing … Continued
We receive a lot of emails from young designers asking what they have to do to become a title designer. I always tell them do what Jurjen Versteeg did, and just do it! In 2009, Versteeg, created an unofficial opening title sequence for Sean Penn‘s feature Into the Wild, and was subsequently asked to design … Continued
“French Fridays” on Watch the Titles updates with another rare nugget of French motion design from the 1970s. The entertaining title sequence by Tito Topin and Jed Falby for Les Gaspards serves as a social-political commentary on the gigantic urban development projects in Paris, which transformed parts of the French capital into a big construction … Continued
“All technology to do with the production of visual effects interests us,” says Pablo Barquín of Physalia – a motion-graphics studio based in Barcelona, Spain. Using Kyle McDonald’s free and open DIY 3D scanner software, Physalia created an unpolished and bold but innovative piece of motion art for Mad MMX – an international design event … Continued
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
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
After The Pink Panther 2, Karin Fong worked with Charles Khoury and Imaginary Forces‘ (IF) creative team on the main title of another iconic and successful movie franchise. Terminator Salvation is the fourth installment of the popular SF series based on the infamous cyborg character. IF’s title design draws heavily on the monumental logo of … Continued
With five superstar title designers presenting together for the first time, we can safely boast that the Flux/Forget the Film, Watch the Titles event at the Hammer Museum in L.A. was nothing short of legendary. More than 500 people attended – too many to fit in the beautiful Billy Wilder theater that seats 299. Everyone … Continued
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