MUSE Main Titles

MUSE Main Titles

I created this opening titles for the Jaume Balagueró´s new film "Muse", a thriller based on the novel " La Dama número 13 " by Fernando Navarro. The Dante´s Divide comedy has an strong presence on the "Muse" film since the main character, Samuel, has an special link with literature. The opening titles are based on one of the Divine comedy´s infernos: The fate of suicides.
Since the suicides have “denied the God-given sanctity of their bodies on earth,” they are deemed unfit for human form. The soul grows into an anguished and gnarled tree. The placement of the soul is haphazard and disordered - “anywhere that fortune tosses it” - analogous to how the Suicides treated their bodies.
The opening titles are a representation of this tate of suicides´s inferno, the human anatomy is the main character of the piece. Melted bodies forming abstract forms mixing and forming trees, nature elements and surrealist creatures inhabit this fiction.

Direction - Fernando Domínguez Cózar
Music - Stephen Rennicks
Producers - Yukio Montilla, Fiona Vidal, Emília Fort
Design, Animation, liquid simulation, comp & postproduction - Fernando Domínguez Cózar.
3D scanning - Leonstudio: Javier León Carrillo, Juan Carlos López Alba
Modeling & texturing - Fernando Domínguez Cózar & León studio: Esaú Pérez Guerrero, Javier Jaén Cavaín,
FX - Fernando Domínguez Cózar & Leónstudio: Manuel Martín Márquez.
Models -
Marta Rosendo Crespo
Juan Ignacio Sirviente González
Sara Fornell Chumilla
Cecilia Gatica López
Francisco López Rodríguez
Carmen Barrena Coello
Santiago Belizón Seguí