It was a happy coincidence when sometime mid 2006 Karin Fong visited the Submarine Channel headquarters in Amsterdam, just as we were launching a new web project dedicated to the art of film title design named ‘Forget the Film, Watch the Titles’. Karin Fong is a creative director and title designer at Imaginary Forces … Continued
Last week we “soft-launced” the improved Forget the Film, Watch the Titles site. We worked very hard to make it happen (still working on some minor issues though). So what’s new? A dedicated url: www.watchthetitles.com, full screen video support, designer pages, a search function, you can now comment on film titles (please do!).
DUCK‘s top title designer Jamie Caliri (Lemony Snicket’s, Madagascar 2) directed the opening title sequence for United States of Tara, a new show – executive produced by Steven Spielberg – which premiered in January on the American network Showtime. We asked Caliri a few questions about the making his animated main title sequence based on … Continued
Under the creative direction of Michael Riley, Shine creates the opening titles for the brand-new HBO project Taking Chance – a movie based on the personal account of a US Lieutenant who accompanied the remains of a young Marine back home to his family in Wyoming. Shine’s main titles are based on handwriting and ink … Continued
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles updates with a classic from 1983. Title designer Wayne Fitzgerald created a main title for David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone that doesn’t reveal itself till the very end of a slow paced but suspenseful opening sequence. The now respected title designer Kyle Cooper liked it so much, it made … Continued
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles updates today with three main titles by one of Finland’s leading post-production studios Fake Graphics from Helsinki. For Swedish comedy 7 millionaires, Fake developed a 3D animated main title sequence around the theme of a board game with golden pawns that represent the different personality traits of each of … Continued
The movie St. Trinian’s is the most recent film adaptation of the cartoon series St Trinian’s School created by Ronald Searles, about an English boarding school for girls. The London-based Emmy-nominated animation studio VooDooDog was approached to do the (very cartoonesque) title sequence.
We updated Forget the Film, Watch the Titles with 3 main titles (4, if you include Kung Fu Panda) by Shine Studio‘s art director Michael Riley. Watch the suspenseful opening credits for Along Came a Spider (2001); Gattaca (1997), created at Imaginary Forces with “nothing digital other than Illustrator to set some type,” as Riley … Continued
In 2004, Jamie Caliri directed the beautiful animated end credits for Lemony Snicket’s – A Series of Unfortunate Events. “One of the most impressive credit sequences of 2004”, we wrote. The animated end credits for DreamWorks’ Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa are not as epic or as elaborate, nor do they share the same richness of … Continued
The title sequence of the not so average triad movie Run, Papa, Run by art director Henri Wong of Parabucks revolves around the recurrent nightmare of the main protagonist. Wong combined hand-drawn animation with re-drawn live action footage and photo collage to create the titles. “I try to give audiences the feeling of rawness,” says … Continued
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