09/18/2011 UPDATE: Congrats to Elastic on their Game of Thrones Emmy win.
The 2011 Emmy nominations for "Outstanding Main Title Design" have just been announced and some familiar faces (and studios) are back with more outstanding work.
Imaginary Forces has two sequences in the running this year, with creative direction on both handled by Karin Fong - HBO's Boardwalk Empire and AMC's Rubicon. These will receive the full "Art of the Title" treatment later this year, with an exclusive double-bill interview from Karin.
Boardwalk Empire
Rubicon (full article)
Shine is also back, with creative director Michael Riley, bringing the main titles for HBO Film's Too Big To Fail from director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential).
Too Big To Fail
We were very pleased to see Huge Designs' beautiful work for Any Human Heart had been included, a sequence we covered this past February.
Any Human Heart (full article)
The final nominee is a personal favorite from this year, HBO's groundbreaking series Game of Thrones, with direction from Angus Wall of Elastic. In the few short months since we featured it on Art of the Title, it has received over 57,000 pageviews and its popularity doesn't appear to be waning.
Game of Thrones (full article)
Our congratulations to Karin, Michael, Paul and Angus, and everyone involved in the creation of these sequences.
ANY HUMAN HEART
Art Director: Hugo Moss
Design and Animation: Paul McDonnell
Animation: J.G. Wilson
Music: Dan Jones
Commissioned by: Carnival Films for Channel 4 (UK)
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BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Designed & Produced by Imaginary Forces
Directors: Karin Fong, Michelle Dougherty
Executive Producer: Anita Olan
Producer: Cara McKenney
Designers: Karin Fong, Lauren Hartstone, Michelle Dougherty
Editor: Caleb Woods
VFX Supervisor: Jeremy Cox
Compositors: Jeremy Cox, John Stanch
3D Animator: Nate Homan
3D Tracker: Joerg Liebold
Additional animation: Matt Lambert
Storyboard Artist: Wayne Coe
Matte Painter: Amy Paskow
Design Assistant: Andy Chung
Design Interns: Alex Huang, Karin Soukup
Coordinator: Kacie Barton
Live Action Line Producer: Jennifer Pearlman
Directors of Photography: Aaron Phillips, Russ Swanson
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Wes Carrier
Music: Brian Jonestown Massacre
Client: HBO
Boardwalk Empire
Production Company: Bootleg Productions
Executive Producers: Terence Winter, Martin Scorsese, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson, Tim Van Patten
Director: Martin Scorsese (Pilot)
Co-Executive Producer: Gene Kelly Co-Producer: Steve Turner
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GAME OF THRONES
Production Company: Elastic
Director: Angus Wall
Post Production
Design Studio: Elastic
Art Director: Rob Feng
Lead Designer: Chris Sanchez
Designers: Henry De Leon, Leanne Dare
Concept Artists: George Fuentes, Rustam Hasanov
Storyboard & Concept Artist: Lance Leblanc
Production Artist: Patrick Raines
Producer: Hameed Shaukat
Executive Producer: Jennifer Sofio Hall
VFX Studio: a52
CG Supervisor: Kirk Shintani
Lead Surfacing & Lighting: Ian Ruhfass
CG Artists: Paulo de Almada, John Tumlin, Christian Sanchez, Erin Clark, Tom Nemeth, Joe Paniagua, Dan Gutierrez
2D Animation Artists: Tony Kandalaft, Brock Boyts
Compositers: Sarah Blank, Eric Demeusy
Smoke & Colorist: Paul Yacono
Editorial Company: Rock Paper Scissors
Editor: Angus Wall
Assistant Editor: Anton Capaldo-Smith, Austyn Daines
Executive Producer: Carol Lynn Weaver, Linda Carlson
Composer: Ramin Djawadi
Sound Design: Andy Kennedy
Client: HBO
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RUBICON
Designed & Produced by Imaginary Forces
Creative Director: Karin Fong
Executive Producer: Anita Olan
Producer: Cara McKenney
Designers: Karin Fong, Theodore Daley, Jeremy Cox
Animators: Jeremy Cox, JJ Johnstone, Andy Chung
Editors: Jordon Podos, Caleb Woods, Adam Spreng
Design Assistant: Joey Salim
Design Interns: Daniel Farah, Leo Marthaler
Coordinator: Emily Nelson
Music Company: Duotone Audio
Composer: Peter Nashel
Music Editor: Sally Swisher
Client: AMC
Senior VP of Original Programming: Joel Stillerman
VP Original Programming: Jeremy Elice
Manager Scripted Development: Tara Duncan
Rubicon
Executive Producers: Henry Bromell, Josh Maurer, Jason Horwitch
Director (Pilot): Allen Coulter
Associate Producer: Leslie Jacobowitz
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TOO BIG TO FAIL
Creative Director: Michael Riley
Creative Lead: Bob Swenson
Editor: Adam Bluming
Designer/Animator: Cory Shaw
Client: HBO
Related
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Rubicon
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Any Human Heart
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Game of Thrones
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