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We’ve talked a lot about exemplary design work in film and television credits – but what’s at the other end of the spectrum?  Compiled (unscientifically)… Read More »The Worst Credits Ever?

California-based Blur Studio is doing some really interesting work in film and television credits; check out the creepy title sequence for Mindhunter, the ultra-violent CG-heavy credits… Read More »Studio Spotlight: Blur

Check out these sequences by the studio Method Design: gritty TV credits for HBO’s The Night Of and Netflix’s Godless, as well as the patriotic closing credits… Read More »Studio Spotlight: Method Design

We’ve looked at the great title sequence work being done by Elastic already, on shows like Westworld and True Detective.  Another major player is the studio Imaginary Forces,… Read More »Studio Spotlight: Imaginary Forces

One of the most exciting graphics studios today is the LA-based Elastic, whose title sequences include Westworld, American Gods, Altered Carbon, The Americans, True Detective, and… Read More »Studio Spotlight: Elastic

Poster artist James Verdesoto digs deep into movie poster design in this insightful series from Vanity Fair.

As its name suggests, After Effects is full of effects that an be applied to stills, video, and audio files.  Here are a few videos… Read More »The Best After Effects Effects

In the 1990s, X-Men: The Animated Series and Batman: The Animated Series were hugely popular.  Both had evocative opening sequences – dark and moody for… Read More »Animated Intros for Batman and X-Men

Since we’ve been working with royalty-free footage, I thought it might be interesting to look at trademarks and copyright use in film.  Here are two… Read More »Trademarks and Copyright Fair Use

The opening credits for True Detective are evocative and iconic – which makes them perfect for parody.  Here are three homages swap in characters from Star Wars, Batman,… Read More »True Detective’s Mesmerizing Parodies

Some of my favorite television title sequences are from the HBO anthology series True Detective.  The credits were created by the design studio Elastic, which is… Read More »True Detective’s Mesmerizing Credits

We’re mostly concerned with title design in film and television, but there’s also some very cool work being done in the world of video games.… Read More »Video Game Title Design

Did you know that there is an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Main Title Design”?  Here are the 2018 nominees; the Starz series Counterpart took the statue… Read More »Title Design at the Emmys

CineFix loves making lists.  Here are their picks for the best opening title sequences of all time (at least as of December 2016).

Here’s a fun list from The A.V. Club, listing their favorite title sequences from television in 2018.