Stop Motion Gems

I love stop motion. It's such an easy way to create amazing movies with very little budget. All you need is an imagination and patience. There seems to be a few music videos featuring it at the moment as well. These are two of my favourites. Enjoy!

Outside the Box

My brother showed me this nice, kind of weird, little video from this guy called Joseph Pelling.

Quantum of Solace

At the weekend I went to see the new bond film - Quantum of Solace. I was very excited to see the opening titles had been created by MK12 (a little too excited, I think I annoyed the people behind when I yelled out “MK12” in glee). I have been a fan of them ever since I saw the opening titles to Stranger Than Fiction a few years ago (my favourite part is the dish washer). I did enjoy the opening titles to Quantum of Solace, although, they have come along way since Robert Brownjohn’s day, which I think, is kind of sad.















The other thing I couldn’t help but notice was the titles used to introduce every new city in the film. Finally, someone has decided to move away from the usual generic, overdone, typewriter style font found at the bottom right of the screen. It reminds me of the way designers like Saul Bass and Kyle Cooper manipulate opening titles to be more useful and insightful. The place names are given time to breathe and sink into the viewers mind rather then just being plonked in as an after thought. At first I thought the titles where done by MK12 as well but I later found out they were done by Tomato.

Five re-brand

I noticed a few weeks ago that channel Five have changed their branding. It was done by design studio Dixon Baxi. I’m still not sure what I think of the re-brand. I really liked the branding Spin did. I think it really set Five apart from the other channels and moved them away from a bit of a joke to a credible channel. I suspect Dixon Baxi’s brand will grow on me but at the moment I’m still morning the previous Helvetican branding.

Brains

The making of the Drench advert. Go Brains!

:: Studioaka ::

I found this studio last year and I pretty much love everything they do. My favourite piece is the lottery ad they did a few years ago though.

'A smile is something special, a ribbon is something rare. So I'll be special and I'll be rare, with a smile and a ribbon in my hair....'

Juno Titles

Juno is a brilliant, witty, hart warming, intelligent film with a fantastic soundtrack and the opening titles set it off really well. They were done by Shadowplay Studio who also created the titles for Thank You for Smoking (who had the same director as Juno). Check out their website and while your at it take a look at their Flikr page showing how they made the titles.

yU+Co.

This is the web site for Garson Yu's moving image company, yU+Co. Yu used to work with the genius Kyle Cooper at Imaginary Forces. I've been a fan of this studio for a few years now, not only for their work but also this amazing site, I love it!!!