Popzilla Opening Title Sequence - Animatic to Final Cut
Posted on March 20th, 2010 by barry

Here’s a breakdown of the opening titles I created for Mtv’s Popzilla. Once we came up with the concept, myself and director Rob Fendler, I put together the animatic for the proposed sequence. Using rough jpegs for BGs, and character storyboards drawn by myself and Rob, (the character designs are rather simple, so simple line figures do the job) I composite, add the camera moves, edit, and time out the sequence for a rough version of our 30 sec opening titles.
Here’s the animatic for the opening titles.
Once the animatic is approved, it goes out to a background artist Carl Reed, and Character Animator Kat Kosmala. Then I take their BGs and animation and I put the whole thing together, with camera moves, effects, motion graphics, sound and music. The final result looks like this:





























































































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