Author: VLight98

Stranger Things Title VFX (+ Brooklyn Nine-Nine Intro)

| VLight98

I have made my own version of the title sequence of the popular Netflix sci-fi TV show called Stranger Things as part of a VFX project at college.

Original:

My version:

Screenshots:

    • How did you use key-framing? I used key-framing to change the scale and position of the Stranger Things text to make it similar to the real intro sequence.
    • How did you use fonts? I used the Georgia font because that was the closest font to the actual font ITC Benguiat.
    • How did you consider timings? I timed the letters to appear at certain times and also change size because, in the original sequence, the letters appear at certain times and join together to make the Stranger Things logo.
    • What else did you try? I added a glow.
    • What render/ export settings did you use and why? I exported it as a H.264 because I was informed to do it.

I also worked on making a version of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine intro VFX with a group but I haven’t finished it.

Screenshot of the project
The title card based on the original Brooklyn Nine-Nine title

What is Animation?

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whaleanimation.gifBasically, animation is the illusion of movement using pictures that are manipulated to show that ‘movement’. Animation comes from the Latin word ‘animare’, which means ‘to give life’. While animation has been well-known since the early 20th century, there has evidence of animation before the advent of cinema such as the zoetrope (invented in 1866) and the flipbook (invented in 1868 but still prominent today). The oldest earliest example of what is considered animation is a pottery bowl found in the ancient city of Shakr-e Sukhteh, Iran dating from approximately 5200 years ago.

Animation forms: Traditional (cel) animation, stop motion animation and CGI (computer-generated imagery) animation