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Rush Opening titles (Update) from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

 Drawing: Life Drawing - http://rcanimations.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Life%20drawing Character Design - http://rcanimations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/character-design-character-bible.html Mudbox - http://rcanimations.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Mudbox Sculting - http://rcanimations.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Sculpting I still need to create the last scene for Mudbox which has had some draw backs along with needing to finish off one of the other models. Maya: Pipeline/ Lighting and Rending - http://rcanimations.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Maya%20tutorial I know I'm behind with the tutorials but I plan dedicate one of the two weeks we are off to catching up with them. I also seem to find it hard to sit down and do the tutorials but this might just be down to the way I work. Animation: Poses - http://rcanimations.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/animation-action-poses.html and http://rcanimations.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/animation-posing.html Weight Lifting - http://rcan...

Title Credits: Rush from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo . This is my finished titles for the film RUSH (2013). I know that in some places it can be improved but I feel that this was not bad for my first attempt and I am quit happy with have it came out overal.

To get an idea of how to place things out on the page, such as colour, font and images, we set about making some quick titles of a fake movie.

After looking over the images that I have made had for My RUSH opening title I have made some changes, mostly being the idea of inverting the colours. Another part that has been changed is that way that I show James Hunt and Niki Lauda taking the lead title off of each other, it is now an arrow changing the colour of the trophy. I've also changed the composition of some of the shots.

After I had worked out the different stages of the opening for the film Rush I sat about creating some images for the different points and to also try out the style that I hope to use for the animation, similar to using a storybroad. Image 1 Image 1 - The arrows are meant to be James Hunt and Niki Lauda when they are racing each other in their early years when their rivalry started. Image 2 Image 2 - This is one of two images that is meant to shown to Hunt winning against Lauda. Image 3 Image 3 - This is the second image of the two and shows Lauda winning against Hunt. Image 4 Image 4 - The next image shows the logos, at the time of the 1970s, of the two teams that Hunt and Lauda raced for in F1. On the left is the logo for McLaren which was the team Hunt raced for and on the right is the logo for Ferrari which was the team that Lauda raced for. Image 5 Image 5 - This image is meant to be the rain before the 1976 German Grand Prix. Image 6 Ima...

I have been thinking about the best way that I show the story of Rush in the time that I have and what it is that I need to show to set the mood of the film. As the film is based on a ture events I can get away with showing some of the main points of the story so this means that I'm not limited to what I can and can't show as many people would already know it. As the main theme of the film is speed I think that by using arrows for Hunt and Lauda for when they are racing each other, for the rest of the time I will use people in the same style as Saul Bass. I've also been trying to break down the film into 7 points to tell the story and in what way can I show it on the screen. 1 - Rivalry starts = Both of the arrows (Hunt and Lauda) are knocked off in their first race together but Hunt’s arrow keeps going while Lauda's is out of the race. 2 - Into F1 = Hunt joins McLaren, Lauda join Ferrari. This can also be used to show their personalities. 3 - The F1 races = Tha ...

This term we have started looking at creating title credits for one of our favourite TV shows or films. This is to make us think about the overal design, mood and main themes of the story and think of a way to set up the viewer for what they are about to see. For the base of this project we are looking at the work of graphic designer Saul Bass who worked on the opening titles and posters for films such as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Psycho (1960). His paper cut style will help us get an idea of how to portray the main points of the film in the opening credits.   The film that I will be creating the opeing titles for is Rush (2013) , di rected by Ron Howard , which tells the story of the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 season. Some element that I want to try and capture in this is the art style of the time and the idea of speed so I have been looking at old racing posters from around about that time, the image that is in ...