Last week I took a shot at a movie which very high expectations for its VFX and in which they dropped the ball. This week, completely opposite sides of the spectrum. The Great Gatsby was one of the best/VFX-heavy movies of 2013. Watching this movie and then watching this video below on kind of blew me away in regards to the amount of time and effort that the VFX-team must have put in to make such a visually-stimulating movie.
Since we are moving into our next project, I wanted to make this week's blog post about another title sequence. Particularly, I wanted to pick a title sequence that had simpler shapes, but great animations. The title sequence I am choosing to recreate is from Monster's Inc-- which I talked about before on this blog. It is very creative, using shapes to form pictures to help create an idea for the audience of what the film is going to be about. (Here's a reminder of what the title sequence looks like).
This sequence, as I mentioned, takes different colored shapes and animates them in accordance to the music. It is very childlike, simple, and eye-catching. Another title sequence that I am using for inspiration for our project is a "fake" title sequence from The Great Gatsby. This isn't the real sequence they used in the movie. But similar to Monster's Inc., they match up the animation to jazzy music. The shapes are simple but they play with animations. There is a great deal of scaling, rotating, and changing the position of the graphics to create an easy-to-watch yet entertaining piece.
