Posted on February 23, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Credits, Digital Effects, Editing | 1 Comment
Need some inspiration? South by Southwest Film and Music Festival released a list of the finalists in the Title Sequence Category from Film and Television productions. The final awards will be present on Tuesday, March 13 at 8pm.
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Posted on January 17, 2012 in Credits | No Comments
Rubicon is AMC Original Series that follows a beleaguered and brilliant government analyst who, after being faced with a shocking tragedy, begins to uncover clues that could point to a complex and sinister consipiracy. To portray that paranoia, Creative Director Karin Fong studied infrastructure, battle graphs, and 70s psycho movies to craft the final version of the opening title animation.
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Posted on January 13, 2012 in Credits | 1 Comment
This video outlines some of the basic principles in designing graphics for video to help you make good design choices for your motion graphics.
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Posted on December 10, 2011 in Credits, Editing | No Comments
This tutorial by Marty from montagical teaches you how to create and work with subtitles in a video using Sony Vegas.
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Posted on December 9, 2011 in Credits, Digital Effects | No Comments
Between Mad Men and Pan Am, the demand for iconic 60s title sequences has never been stronger. We scoured the internets to find how many legendary films might have looked if their title sequences designed by the legendary Saul Bass:
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Posted on November 18, 2011 in Credits | No Comments
To celebrate the release of Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham, Ian Albinson of Art of the Title put together a brief visual history of some of Saul Bass’s most celebrated work.
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Posted on August 4, 2011 in Credits | No Comments
Jurjen Versteeg designed this video as a possible title sequence for a fictitious documentary, this film shows a history of the title sequence in a nutshell. The sequence includes all the names of title designers who had a revolutionary impact on the history and evolution of the title sequence. The names of the title designers all refer to specific characteristics of the revolutionary titles that they designed.
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Posted on April 5, 2011 in Credits, Digital Effects, Featured | 6 Comments
It has been awhile since we did an After Effects tutorial roundup. This time we want to focus on titles. Your opening titles maybe the the first impression viewers will have of your film, so you better make them count. Here are 30 Hollywood style After Effects tutorials to help and inspire [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2011 in Credits | No Comments
Many fans of the Naked Gun films may not know it was once a TV show called “Police Squad!.” Like anything good on TV it was cancelled after only 6 episodes. Each episode would similarly play credits over a 1970s style freeze frame of the final scene, except that the frame was not frozen – the actors simply stood motionless in position while other activities (pouring coffee, convicts escaping, chimpanzees running amok) continued around them.
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Posted on October 11, 2010 in Credits, Interviews | 1 Comment
During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
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Posted on September 3, 2010 in Credits, General Screenwriting | 2 Comments
This video entitled “Typography” by Ronnie Bruce is an animated version of a poem by Taylor Mali.
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Posted on August 17, 2010 in Credits, Digital Effects, Editing | 1 Comment
Here’s a free Final Cut Pro plugin from alex4D which allows you to change font of multiple text clips at once. It is a bit basic, but it might save you a lot of time.
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Posted on April 29, 2010 in Credits, Digital Effects | 1 Comment
This video tutorial shows you how to create a invisible text effect with Final Cut Studio’s Motion 4 where the text disappears and reappears behind a object. This effect works for Final Cut Pro and Motion 3 as well.
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Posted on April 16, 2010 in Credits, Digital Effects | No Comments
In this After Effects tutorial Topher Welsh shows you how easy it is to create the cool 3D style credit roll from “Minghags”, (a movie he does not recommended). The best part was the is the credit roll.
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Posted on January 21, 2010 in Credits, Storyboarding | No Comments
Designer and director, Danny Yount had “35 jobs before I knew what I wanted to do, which was design.” He didn’t go to school and taught himself photography and design. Since setting off on his chosen path he has created some of the most inspiring and lauded title sequences in television and film, his portfolio [...]
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