“Title Sequences: 4D Painting with Light” by Sony Pictures Imageworks
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2001 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2001:
Title:
- Title Sequences: 4D Painting with Light
Length:
- 6:04
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
Description:
I wanted to create an environment with infinite depth, and to use this depth to represent the bounds of possibility. Usually the visual information for title design happens in one image plane. Infinite depth represents infinite possibility and with computer animation anything is possible.
The richness of color balanced with black negative space is key to the design, as is the typographic layout and the animation style.
Using particle animation to reveal the typographic elements was an obvious choice. The particle system, written by Theo Vandernoot, allowed all our animators to manipulate the motion of the particles in simple, complex, elegant, and varied ways.
In creating these titles we were free from the usual constraints of 3D feature film production. And while we still had our own in-house production deadlines to meet, as well as the deadlines for the Computer Animation Festival, it was a great opportunity for us to express ourselves creatively.
Additional Contributors:
Producer: JACQUIE BARNBROOK, Sony Pictures lmageworks Inc.
Title Design and Supervision: SHEENA DUGGAL, Sony Pictures lmageworks Inc.
Title Sequence Design courtesy of: SONY PICTURES lMAGEWORKS lNC., CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA
Concept Artist: MARZETTE BONAR
Title design: MICHAEL SHEFFE
Titles and credits typographic layout: RACHEL T. NICOLL
Particle Design: THEO VANDERNOOT
Particle animation: STIRLING DUGURN, MICHAEL EDLAND, ZSOLT KRAJASIK, STEVE LAVIETES, DANIELLE PLANTEC, JEFF WOLVERTON, DAN ZIEGLER
Inferno artists: SHEENA DUGGAL, DOUG FORREST, DAVID TAKAYAMA
Technical support: TED ALEXANDRE, NATHAN ERIKSEN, CREOLA JONES, ERIC WITHEE
