Should I post this? It's not a spoiler but you may prefer to watch this in the cinema. But I just have to talk about the Watchmen Title Sequence.
I originally got this link of Motionographer, and I have to say those guys seem to be pissing up each others backs recently because I think the design elements of this title sequence are very underwhelming and poorly executed. Since I posted this, they removed the whole post... I'm not sure why. Infringement? Or just because they realised it really didn't deserve to be on the front page? Here's a quote from the original article;
"Yu and his creative team wove meticulous detail into the type design. Rather then simply lay 2D type onto the foreground of the live action, it is incorporated in 3D into each scene."
You can see the titles now over at Yu+Co's website, that's if you can actually navigate it. The video is very slow loading as well - I'll repost a better link when I find one.
So basically they've made some tracked on type. Well done guys. You took a fixed typeface and colour, and tracked it into a pre-made sequence. Badly. IMHO, the designers at Yu+Co don't get brownie points for completing such a standard job. However - one has to consider that perhaps people are more impressed by this title sequence, because of the fantastic cinematography, grading and editing. Let's hope the rest of the film continues in a similar fashion... I thought as a whole the titles were very absorbing and beautiful to watch. The type could have given so much more impact to the overall sequence - there's no excuse really when you're filming straight from the pages of a graphic novel.
"Yu and his creative team wove meticulous detail into the type design. Rather then simply lay 2D type onto the foreground of the live action, it is incorporated in 3D into each scene."
You can see the titles now over at Yu+Co's website, that's if you can actually navigate it. The video is very slow loading as well - I'll repost a better link when I find one.
So basically they've made some tracked on type. Well done guys. You took a fixed typeface and colour, and tracked it into a pre-made sequence. Badly. IMHO, the designers at Yu+Co don't get brownie points for completing such a standard job. However - one has to consider that perhaps people are more impressed by this title sequence, because of the fantastic cinematography, grading and editing. Let's hope the rest of the film continues in a similar fashion... I thought as a whole the titles were very absorbing and beautiful to watch. The type could have given so much more impact to the overall sequence - there's no excuse really when you're filming straight from the pages of a graphic novel.
