True Detective Season 2 Main Titles

Moody, minimal, and drenched with rich color. Plus Leonard Cohen made the theme song so, yeah, thats awesome.

True Detective Season 2 Main Titles from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.

History of Video Game Title Design

This is a pretty fun short piece.  A lot has changed.

A Brief History of Video Game Title Design from Art of the Title on Vimeo.

Art of the Title - Ironman III

Take a look at this article for a peak into the process of making the title sequence of Ironman III.  I like the energy of the final, but also really love some of the concept art.

Vikings - Opening Title Sequence

Having read the description bellow, I was left in a fevered state of anticipation. I'm sure you can see why. Rama Allen also has under his belt True Blood and HBO Boxing. Everything he touches turns to awesome.

Ritual. Supernature. Memory. Visions. Salt. Gold. Smoke. Sex. Metal. Blood. Gods. Fire. Death. Honor. Family... and the Sea.To develop the sequence we sought the haunting, ancient, fearsome, visceral part of us.The Viking Part.It began with music. Fever Ray's "If I Had A Heart" was our first move, and it became the soundtrack to our development, our pitch, and eventually the finished work. The sequence was inspired by a folktale found in The Sagas. That of the nine sisters, the goddesses of the waves, that would pluck Viking explorers from their ships and pull them to a sensual, dark, watery grave. The Vikings' relationship with death was built on honor, inevitability, sex, and the constant presence of gods pulsing through every grain of sand and swell of the ocean.We follow the separation of a Viking from the living. He slips into darkness amongst ornaments of his life. Weaponry, gold and bone. His fading memory flickers throughout before he is consumed by one of the Sisters. He is left a shell below the waves before we learn he is not alone, but one of many sinking below the creeping surge of Viking raiders above. A fiery, massive raid assaults a darkened coast line.

VIKINGS OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE from Rama Allen on Vimeo.

The Power of the Title Sequence

Title says it all.

 From PBS' Off Book series.

 Enjoy.

A History of the Title Sequence

An "oldie", but a goodie. This popped back up and I had to post it.

A History Of The Title Sequence from jurjen versteeg on Vimeo.

Without Words

Lately I've been thinking about story telling without words. Perhaps it's the ADA compliance, the recognition The Artist is getting or just because I found these two great examples.

The first example is the title sequence for a film called Herbst. German for fall, it's a really nice piece that not only works without words but without live action as well.

The second clip, The Imposters, is probably a little more akin to what you might imagine when you think of silent film, slap stick and everything.

Art of the Title & Les Bleus De Ramville

Art of the Title is a site that I've been visiting for a while now and every once in while they showcase a title sequence that also has a lot of the pre-work posted as well. This is one of those. We often find final products on the web, sometimes we find a "making of" video or production photos but we don't dig up treatments, process boards or other sources of inspiration for those polished pieces...

On the page, they highlight the original pitch. Although they admit that it's a pretty streamlined treatment because they had an existing relationship with the client. They also show some boards that illustrate what kind of shots they'd be getting and even the color treatment.