Title Sequence Animation in After Effects
Creation of Mood Board
A course by Paul McDonnell , Title Sequence Designer
About the video: Creation of Mood Board
Overview
“The next step will be creating a mood board using Pinterest to kick off your ideas. ”
In this video lesson Paul McDonnell addresses the topic: Creation of Mood Board , which is part of the Domestika online course: Title Sequence Animation in After Effects. Learn how to create a striking opening sequence for a movie or series by editing images and layouts in Photoshop, then bring it to life in After Effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to start collating some images that we can use as reference and create a specific mood board based on the the title sequence you'd like to create. I'm going to create a title sequence for the movie Tremors. I feel like that's good because it's atmospheric and it's got enough material in there to work with a good transition. I would suggest that you choose something that you are interested in just to keep keep everything fresh. You could choose anything from Goonies or, um, one of the Batman movies, anything that's got a relatively serious theme behind it. So we'r...”
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Paul McDonnell
A course by Paul McDonnell
Paul is a title sequence designer, working out of HUGE Designs in London. He was born in Guildford, England in 1979 and grew up in Western New York. Paul has been working in the title industry for over a decade, and has created the opening titles for shows including The Walking Dead, Chucky, The Serpent, Around the World in 80 Days, Das Boot and The Son.
He’s been nominated for BAFTAs multiple times, and won a Primetime Emmy for his work on the show Da Vinci’s Demons. He’s also a three-time recepient of the SXSW Excellence in Title Design for his work in The Shannara Chronicles, Into the Badlands, and Any Human Heart.
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