Digital Kitchen: The Company Titles

New work is often posted in waves, and such is the case for recently featured Digital Kitchen. Their title sequence for mini-series The Company is a beautifully atmospheric piece that shows DK’s diversity of style and sensitivity to subject matter.

I asked producer Colin Davis a couple questions about the project, and he supplied some nice details:

Technique:
The technique was a hybrid of procedural and hand-done cell animation. Technically speaking, this is a mixture of 3D animation with both procedural (2D + 3D + Hair + Ink + Particles) and hand drawn cross-hatching. All the rabbits were hand-sketched — we literally took every other frame (12fps) into Photoshop and drew on top.

Timeline:
The whole main title process lasted from August through early June, but for the final product shipped, the hard-core production lasted about 12 weeks.

DK’s attention to detail and love of the craft is obvious. Oh, and the typographic choice of Caslon was a nice, classic move. For a show about the CIA, they could have gone an entirely different route, opting for more of a Mission Impossible sans serif, something that screams “THIS SHOW IS ABOUT SPIES!”

Thank god they didn’t.

CREDITS
Creative Director:
Matt Mulder

Lead Designers:
Cody Cobb
Ryan Gagnier

Designer:
Noah Conopask

Animatiors:
Ryan Gagnier
David Holm
Pete Kallstrom
Matt LaVoy
Dayvd Chan

3d:
Cody Cobb

Character Animators:
Igor Choromanski
Gordana Fersini

Editor:
Dave Molloy

Producer:
Jill Johns
Colin Davis

Executive Producer:
Mark Bashore