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Basic Design principles in a title sequence

We were told to pick an opening sequence to a piece of media from the site ArtoftheTitle and breakdown the basic design principles used I chose the Stop Motion feature Coraline Analyzing the opening sequence The use of balance

The use of repetition and patterns

Emphasis using white space

Framing using contrast

The use of lines

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Do you know who designed the main titles to Law & Order? How about Arrested Development? Check out 10 WOMEN OF TITLE DESIGN — PART SIX, our annual list of 10 designers you should absolutely know about! This year, the list includes creative directors, motion designers, lettering artists, animators, and 3D artists. Join us as we celebrate the often unsung women in this great field. http://www.artofthetitle.com/feature/10-women-of-title-design-part-six/

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Animated Podcast Intro Sequence - Terrible, Thanks For Asking

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Art of the Title: True Detective

      True Detective: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/true-detective/

The “trend” that I was most interested in this week was on artofthesequence.com—the True Detective opening title sequence. It was created by many people, but the names given in the interview were the Creative Director Patrick Clair, the project producer Jennifer Sofio Hall from Elastic, a team at Antibody located in Sydney, AU, lead by Senior Designer Raul Marks, and some compositing and animation work done by Breeder in Brisbane. 

As far as Patrick Clair goes, the interviewee of the article, he is a member of Elastic, and the owner of Antibody—both which participated in the making of the True Detective title sequence. Other titles he has created include American Gods, The Crown, Westworld, The Man in the High Castle, The Night Manager, and Daredevil to list a few. 

The True Detective title sequence was created in 2014. It runs at one minute and thirty seconds, and is eye capturing from the very beginning. The sequence starts out on a long road, and slowly pulls out before switching to another scene and panning up, and then another scene from there every second or two panning in different directions. In each of these scenes, double exposure is implemented—aka pictures upon pictures (or in this case video). Silhouetted bodies are filled with highways, landscapes, animals, maps, other people, you name it. Not only are the individuals simply silhouettes for the videos, the silhouettes themselves are also moving. Sometimes, they are not whole body silhouettes, but faces or even other body parts and objects, such as buttocks, chests, eyeballs, a wheel, a guitar, and more. 

My first thought on the article was that it was interesting how the work happened all over the world and in different offices rather than one team working on a single piece together in a single place. I’d never really thought about it before, but since most of the work is done on the computer, it’s really easy to just take the files and send them to other people across the world.

I also really enjoyed learning about how they made the pictures look more like videos, and the videos look like “floatier” pictures. They took the photos they had, converted them to 3D images, and had a virtual camera fly through the 3D images for the shots they wanted before placing them in a single composition with the actual footage. They even made 3D models of the some of the people footage to achieve the look they wanted. I watched the title sequence three or four times before even looking at the interview, so when I watched it, learning how it was made just made the opening better. They clearly put a lot of work into the title sequence and it shows. Overall, I think the True Detective title sequence is a work of art, and knowing how it was created only made it better.  

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Toronto fans, don't miss your chance to meet me, Andrew Ivimey, and Diana McCallum, the creators of From Superheroes next week at FAN EXPO Canada at our panel on Starting Your Geeky Career Online. We'll be joined by editors from The Beaverton, Art of the Title and Dork Shelf! Come to learn and laugh! http://fanexpocanada.com/

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A showcase of different opening / end titles I designed at Grid (2011-2015).

View projects on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4952913/

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Légendes visuelles - The real influencers⠀ -⠀ The American designer Kyle Cooper revolutionized the art of film credits in 1995 with Se7en by David Fincher cited by the New York Times Magazine as "One of the most important design innovations of the 1990s".⠀ His strength lies not in his style, but in his ability to suggest and introduce the film.⠀ A specialist in drama and horror, he sublimates suspense and fear by subtly combining filming, typography, editing and music.⠀ He has produced and directed more than one hundred titles including Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible, Godzilla, The Walking Dead or The American Horror Story.⠀ He started at @rgabydesign, then founded @imaginary_forces_ in 1996, then the creative studio @prologuefilms in 2003 where he currently works.⠀ .⠀ Pictures credits: @roger_cremers & @prologuefilms⠀ #kylecooper #artofthetitle #motiondesign #culture #legendesvisuelles https://www.instagram.com/p/BtnQcbtC0xn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1doh8mwo2hz62

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Few weeks ago, I watched “Mindhunter”, a TV series directed by David Fincher. I loved it so much, especially the sophisticated and unique design of the title sequence. This opening credits reminds me of “Fight Club” and “Seven”. Here are some quotes from the article “ Top 10 Title Sequences of 2017 ” :

“Nobody knows that they saw it, but they did.” The particulars of who saw what and when are always key in Netflix’s new serial killer drama Mindhunter. 

Mindhunter takes many of its cues from the work of executive producer David Fincher. In the director’s 1999 film Fight Club, one of the main characters — working as a projectionist — spends his spare time splicing single frames of porn movies into the reels of family-friendly films for kicks. Here the kicks are Fincher’s as he blasts images of human horror at the unsuspecting viewer. 

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Brief Festival 2016 - Titles

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The Title Design of Saul and Elaine Bass

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Animated Podcast Intro Sequence - Terrible, Thanks For Asking

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How many women title designers can you name? Check out 10 WOMEN OF TITLE DESIGN — PART FIVE, our annual list of 10 designers you should absolutely know about! This year, the list includes creative directors, lettering artists, Disney animators, 3D artists, and motion designers. Join us as we celebrate another International Women’s Day by shining a light on the often unsung women in this great field. http://www.artofthetitle.com/feature/10-women-of-title-design-part-five/

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Farewell and rest in peace, title designer Pablo Ferro.

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Women in title design

Art of Title - the web archive that has the most of extensive collection of title designs from across years and the globe, has been publishing series dedicated to women title designers. Proud to share the fourth part of this series: http://www.artofthetitle.com/feature/10-women-of-title-design-part-four/

Check out their website to see more.

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Pablo Ferro: A Career Retrospective

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R/Greenberg Associates: A Film Title Retrospective