In “Playgrounds Digital Arts Fest 2012,” the best of the best title film was outrageous. I barely noticed the titles, though. I was drawn into the the organic, flowing underwater-like motion of creatures in a world that had a story to tell. Where was this. Why was it created? Who are at these names that waft about. How are these elements connected. What do they mean?
Three weeks to produce!? They new the turnaround would be so short, they had to skip the sketch book and go straight into 3D animation. I would love to see this on a cinema screen. Really big. The titles were elements created within the sequence not added to the top. Amazing.
In Six Feet Under, the title sequence is clean, clear and simple. The imagery seems to be warm, calm and serene even though it is obviously about death. Titles are superimposed, typed on, faded in. They stay static, they ride down with liquid in the embalming solution, beautifully. Ugh. Did I just type that? I mean serenely.