Motion Design
Typography | Illustration | Animation
Illustrator | After Effects
– Project Overview –
This title sequence motion design is a reimagining of the 1997 horror movie Cube’s title sequence. The names and titles of key people in the movie’s production are the main focus of this animation, while the visuals play more of a supporting role, to help make the names stand out. The motion design is a play on the imagery throughout the movie with lots of stark contrast, lines, and squares.
– Design Process –
Storyboard
The first part of the process was to create a few different storyboards that show different ways the title sequence could be animated. The four ideas in order of the images are: Story/Navigation – Follows the plot of the movie.
Abstract Cube – Uses lines to convey an abstract cube shape.
Objects – Uses key objects from the movie.
Title Word – Uses the word Cube to rotate around.
Once complete, visual styles were crated based on the most successful storyboards.
Visual Style Ideas
To pick a visual style for the animation, three distinct styles were created to choose from. The first idea was to use the letters of the word cube to interact with the actor’s names as well as silhouettes of the actors from different scenes of the movie. The second idea was to use abstract lines that make up a cube to create movement between scenes. The third idea was to incorporate scenes from the movie.
Final Style
The second visual style was deemed the most effective by the professor and classmates. Six distinct frames were created to give an idea of what the finished animation would look like.
In Progress
This is the project about half way finished. There are still a lot of things that need to change to get it to the final version but this helps illustrate all the work put into the animation.