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Filipe Carvalho teams with Untold Studios to set a gritty/ominous tone for Paramount’s spy thriller “Special Ops: Lioness”.
Recounting the investigation of a crime that shocked Brazil in 2002: the murder of one of the biggest names in the Brazilian Worker’s Party — Celso Daniel
The historical TV-Show miniseries “Bonn – Alte Freunde neue Feinde” is a six-part political thriller based on true events during the tense Cold War
The main title for Candy sets the table for an 80’s housewife who is turning up the heat.
Agitated, rough charcoal strokes reveal pieces of the image, whether it is something based in reality or one of his dreamy visions.
The story is about a group of former Nazi concentration camp prisoners who are dedicated to persecuting and bringing to justice those responsible, many of whom take refuge in Franco’s Spain.
From Monografo
Title sequence developed for a documentary that explores the confrontation between a young, affluent student and a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
The Panics director Erwin van den IJssel worked with theatre company Gecko to create the opening titles and end credits of their film Institute.
A vintage, cinematic, sports-oriented feel that captured the magnitude and scope of basketball’s most powerful story.
Love stories that were kept in the closet for a long time reflecting the history, legislation and norms of the time.
Lots of scratches and brushstrokes in these titles.
Director: Guy Ritchie
Client: Silver Pictures
Produced at Prologue
“The Godfather of Harlem main title is an homage to the contemporaneous collages created during 1960s Harlem by African-American artist, Romare Bearden (1911-1988).
Mix of footage, 3D and cel-animated elements to create intense energetic bike racing titles.
by NERDO
Main title sequence for the Stephanie Soechtig-directed, Katie Couric-produced documentary about gun control and the history of the NRA.
Lots of nice pencil and paint-strokes in these titles for Sky Sports coverage of Cricket’s 2019 Ashes Series. Also available for the Men’s: https://vimeo.com/351365553
Great title sequence & great Doc exposing the tale behind Cambridge Analytical and Facebook.
The six-part CNN docuseries has a title sequence directed, designed and animated by David Penn.
Dave Penn was invited to conceive and produce a title sequence for an Oxford Films feature documentary.
Method Studios’ New York team recently designed the intricate opening titles for “El Chapo,” a new series from Univision and Netflix that retells the story of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Manages to look low-tech and true to the retro however lots of CGI used. The story of vinyl records, designed & produced by Imaginary Forces.
50 years ago the martial arts legend Bruce Lee wrote material and pitched the idea for Warrior. In 2019, Cinemax finally brought it to life. The series creator Jonathan Tropper and his team approached Method Studios to create the opening sequence for the adrenaline-pumping new series
Polar, the Netflix action film directed by Jonas Åkerlund and based on Víctor Santos’ comic series, winds down with this arresting end credit sequence designed and produced by Toronto’s Worship studio with Tendril picking up an executive producer credit.
Opening titles for “CIVIL 80”, a documentary TV series about the Spanish civil war. Created by Antoni Sendra AKA PODENCO – a spanish freelance director specializing in mixed media driven projects.
Titles created by Niels Prayer
Character animation by Quentin Laville
Visuals & Music by Niels Prayer
Yest another great title from Patrick Claire and his colleagues at Elastic for the Netflix TV series.
Nice title using lots of type and texture from Elastic.
Design: Elastic, Design Director: Duncan Elms, Designers: Nadia Tzuo, Felix Soletic, Erika Bird, Luca Ionescu, Henry DeLeon, Animators: Jeffrey Jeong, Yongsub Song, Vincent Wang, EJ Kang, Peter Murphy, Steven Do, Hal Heah
Title sequence showing the deconstruction of Manhatten.
Design Studio: Elastic, Executive Creative Director: Angus Wall, Creative Director: Lisa Bolan, Art Director: Heidi Berg, Designer: Felix Soletic, Composite and Animation: Yongsub Song, Charles Khoury, Piero Desopo, Alex Silver, Rachel Brickel, Editor: Lauren Dellara
Opening sequence for a CNN mini-documentary about biometrics created by Ignacio Osorio
Our digital world is being shaped by our physical bodies. Biometrics are fast becoming the new way to identify ourselves and the industry is booming.
Lovely work from these guys below following the infamous HO Chi Ming trail on mountain bikes.
Production: Red Bull Media House
Director: Nicholas Schrunk
Producer: Sandra Kuhn
Art Director : John Likens
Design + Animation: John Likens, Wesley Ebelhar
Reel music: Remains by Shlohmo
Great title sequence from “The Drawing Room” apparently about the U.S. government’s systematic persecution of gay and lesbian State Department employees during the Cold War.
Animated intro video for MediaMolecule’s Twitch stream combining live action with playful animation.
Animation/Direction: Dan Castro
Illustration: Rex Crowle
Titles using silhouettes cut out from stills.
From Elastic and directed by Angus Wall
A surprisingly effective sequence considering that our brains seem to suggest that there’s more there than there is. Not sure who the creative is but will update this post when we find out.
Beautifully crafted title sequence by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (aka Xiaolin Zeng, aka Mike Zeng) detailing insects constructed with glassy, organic materials.
Dave Penn directed this animation (along with Jellyfish and Sixfingers) for a six-part CNN documentary series concerned with what went on behind the scenes during key presidential campaigns in U.S. history. Sponge paint mattes provide nice transitions for cleverly laid out photographs.
Painted transitions and frames create artistic transitions for Underground, the new WGN America series. Done by Imaginary Forces.
Small titles for Gunpowder a new advertising creative showcase. Animated in 2D and 3D using a variety of techniques by Art & Graft, they create a rich and modern title.
This title gets us up to speed quickly with the recent history of Ukriane, well at least how the story goes in the West. It’s another excellent piece of work from Patrick Claire
Been meaning to post this one for a while. It’s from Elastic TV. A great mix of the banal and the political.
Opening Title sequence of HBOs Documentary; MANHUNT. The show documented the two decade hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Lots of documents and ink bleeds.
Creative Directed & Designed by Manija Emran.
Produced by The Mill+
Lots of layers of political and social upheaval over the centuries are organised through what looks like a burning paper effect for the titles and graphics for director Greg Barker’s documentary, We Are The Giant, a Passion Pictures & Motto Pictures Production.
Creative Directed & Designed by Manija Emran. Produced by Mill Plus themillplus.com
Stop motion title sequence for the ending of the Lego Movie. Nice layout, positioning and camera movement give a childish subject a mature look.
Mill+ co-director Ben Smith and co-director Bryce Wymer teamed up with Netflix to create the title sequence for Marco Polo and most appears to be achieved on camera but with a lot of planning.
Essentially, spy stuff. Lots of overlays and tracking footage and data gives it that high-tech espionage look. By Imaginary Forces
Map title sequence, simple idea nicely executed in a fun, crafted way by Imaginary Forces.
Slight alteration to the aired version as the cross was taken off. Short and simple but nice idea with the flag transition. By Imaginary Forces.
Simple idea of diagrams on paper done very well in true Imaginary Forces style, similar in fashion to their popular Rubicon title.
Antibody created the main title sequence for HBO’s critically acclaimed drama series True Detective. Working through our LA-based production partners, Elastic, and with compositing support from the talented crew at Breeder.
A subtle mix of 3D into the retro spooky styling by using painted textures on the 3D models. The look is spooky with an old film feel.
Retro style graphics in a 2D graphic style contributes a swinging soundtrack. A fifties style animation similar to Catch Me if You Can.
Titles by Dvein, fromthe Spanish film director Kike Maíllo’s retro-futuristic sci-fi thriller.
Charles de Lauzirika’s psychological noir is the subject of this end sequence where wind-driven, humanoid whirligigs are torn apart and re-purposed into disturbing wooden mechanisms.
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A nicely shot and animated homage to the individuals who have produced landmark titles for features in the past.
Animation for the opening of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang starring Robert Downey Jnr. The titles use simple mattes and strokes to create an old painted effect, with more focus on the style rather than the animation.
End titles for the film. Referencing early 1960’s title sequences as inspiration, simple shapes are used to graphically represent scientific data including DNA sequencing, mitosis, meiosis, and gene technology.
Prologue piece together a clever device shooting close-ups with a muted palette and short depth of field. The series is a modern take on Sherlock Holmes by CBS starring Lucy Liu as Watson. I know, right.
Nice title sequence using interesting motion on hockey notation and jump cut editing
Graphic titles combined with sand tinted archive to produce a brief history of Saudi Arabia.
Titles incoporating archive stills by placing them against a plane of breaking glass. Not for the very squeamish…
Title animation using purely motion graphics and clever transitions with a small colour pallete to great effect. Lots of documents.
Static titles using close-ups of paper and documents with subtle animation to create a coded typographical sequence.
Old diagrams are animated in 2D and 3D to create a vintage looking title sequence with a graphic feel.
This sequence block shades the live action and adds it together with animation to create a very bold graphicly styled sequence.
Graphical sequence using buzzing numbers to convey telephone hacking and voicemail decoding for Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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Film title sequence using flat colouring with subtle 3D to create a retro graphic feel
Classic title sequence using live action footage placed carefully with credit typography
Montage of our Timewatch special using canvases decorated with photos and memorabilia to create rostrum style moves matching the narrative.
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Titles for Robin hood mixing traditional painterly techniques with a modern twist.
Classic Title sequence for True Blood. Using a mixture of archive and shot footage with a edgy heavily graded look. Thanks, Bolex.
Titles for american sitcom using text from a book to animate the characters and type throughout.
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Titles for an old BBC Knowledge slot on Non-English language cinema. Shot in and around London and projections were composited later.
A title we shot some years ago in my house in Wandsworth doubling as a US government office in the 30’s. We used a boroscope lens which was about a foot in length attached to a DigiBeta camera to get in to see that dust.
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