Behind the Scenes of "Heroes"

After completing the first project, the opening title sequence of a tv show, I decided to research a little more into the television show I chose, Heroes. I watched the first two seasons of Heroes when it originally aired a few years back and I must say, it was one of the most visually stunning television shows I have seen. Every episode felt like a mini movie with all of the high quality special effects. In the first season alone, the show utilized over 1000 visual effects. I found this article that describes a lot of the visual effects used in the pilot episode (which if you haven't seen it, I definitely recommend checking it out just for the visual effects alone!)

I also found this video that goes into great detail about the special effects used in the show. It interviews the visual effects crew and they go into depth about how they create the stunning images seen in the show. It is amazing that they are able to create all of these effects for a show that airs every week.

Project #1 ideas

So i've been sitting here thinking of any idea for this project and this is what i've come up with. The first one is The Big Bang Theory.



When you look at each of the elements closely it doesn't seem like their's that much to it. Basically it starts with you flying through space, where i would create glowing stars and planets and try to make them appear to fly by as if the viewer was zooming through. It then zooms into the earth to show dozens, maybe even over a hundred still images. It seems as though you are flying through each image to the next faster and faster as if you were flying through history. Here i think i would take each image and scale animate them so they scale up and cut to each image somehow. The sequence ends with a quick video clip of the cast in present day and then the show's title graphic.

If i am able to figure this out, i was going to replace the historic images with images of me throughout my college years. I haven't thought of a name for it yet.

I have a few backups as well in case this turns out to be to difficult. My next idea was to replicate Heroes. This one is shorter. It's all graphic and animation and no video which could be difficult but it seems pretty simple.