Here’s a great little piece on animated GIFs from the PBS art series, Off Book. Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium | Off Book | PBS
Here’s a great little piece on animated GIFs from the PBS art series, Off Book.
“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Title Sequence by Blur from Motionographer on Vimeo. Check out this great Motionographer article/interview with Blur Studio where they discuss the creation of the opening titles for David Fincher‘s the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Blur Talks: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Titles (Posted by Motionographer Staff) If you … Continue reading “Check out this Motionographer interview about the creation of the opening titles for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Title Sequence by Blur from Motionographer on Vimeo.
Check out this great Motionographer article/interview with Blur Studio where they discuss the creation of the opening titles for David Fincher‘s the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Blur Talks: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Titles (Posted by Motionographer Staff)
If you haven’t seen Blur’s opening titles for David Fincher’s rendition of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, now would be a good time to climb out from under your rock and check them out (above).
In addition to listing the top-billed talent in a film, the role of a good opening credit sequence is to mentally prep the audience for the ensuing film. In that regard, Blur’s titles are an exemplary specimen — perhaps the best from 2011. When the final frame flickers past, your heart rate will have doubled and your pupils will have fully dilated. Consider yourself ready.
Blur’s Tim Miller was kind enough to give us some background on the titles and share some making-of videos with us. Make sure to read on past the jump for all the goodies.
I don’t typically think of Blur as a designer of film title sequences, but it seems you guys are making a push to be regarded as much for your design chops as for your animation skills. Is that a fair assumption? What’s the plan?
We’ve always had an inhouse design group, it’s just not a large as the animation/FX side. So we’ve always been in the game. As for movie titles, I would say this was more a project of opportunity than part of some uber-plan. We’ve done other projects with Fincher in the past, and we have several on-going film development projects with him. For what David had in mind for this title, we were just a natural fit.
But with that said we would like to capitalize on the work. We enjoyed the process, and we like to mix it up and do different styles of work. So hopefully there will be other opportunities for us like this. It’s nice to do something that doesn’t have a big explosion, aliens or gunfire for a change. Though, of course, we love all that stuff!
Excerpted from Motionographer
See the rest of the interview, including some additional videos here.
The Art of Time: Student Video Art ShowcaseAmerican University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Wednesday, December 7 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center hosts a culminating screening event of video art by current BA and MFA students enrolled in AU’s studio art program. All of the individual … Continue reading “The Art of Time: Student Video Art Showcase – Wednesday, December 7th from 7 – 9pm in the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center”
The Art of Time: Student Video Art Showcase
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
Wednesday, December 7 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center hosts a culminating screening event of video art by current BA and MFA students enrolled in AU’s studio art program. All of the individual moving image projects were developed and produced in Media/New Practices courses emphasizing conceptual art approaches to experimental, narrative and documentary genres. This event is free and open to the public, kicking off with a reception.
Cited from the Katzen Arts Center museum website.
From their website: The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a collaboration between New York University Libraries and NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, provides a digital venue for documenting the expression of social and political life through performance in the many cultures and political landscapes of the Americas. The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library … Continue reading “Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library: An archive of performing arts on video from across the Americas”
From their website:
The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a collaboration between New York University Libraries and NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, provides a digital venue for documenting the expression of social and political life through performance in the many cultures and political landscapes of the Americas. The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library brings together in one place materials that have been available only in small, little-known archives that are inaccessible to scholars and that lack the resources to properly care for and provide access to these extraordinary cultural documents. But it is not enough simply to gather the videos together. We have used the resources of digital technology to insure the long-term preservation of this rare material and to make it accessible not just to researchers at NYU but to scholars and artists around the world.
