How the juno’s opening credits has been done

[Topher Welsh]

To tell you the truth I think there is just a lot of photoshop or scanned in hand animation done.

Except for the face and maybe some of the shots with the jeans and hoodie… looks like they just took every 7 or 8 frames and held them until 7 or 8 frames ahead of that and stuck a sketch filter or something in Photoshop on those still frames.

That way it could give an animated feel with the frame by frame look, but also give you all the details of her face and such.

And I think the backgrounds are an obvious answer… hahaha

Toph.

Topher Welsh
Head Editor & Motion Graphics
http://www.scout.com

[Lars Bunch]

Hi,

Topher’s description sounds like a likely way to do that effect.

One of the nice things about the CS3 Extended version of Photoshop is that you can open a quicktime file and work with it directly.

In older versions, exporting a tiff sequence and then working on that may be the best option.

When I have done line animations using footage as a reference, I have used ToonBoom which allows you to load in background footage to work over in a virtual light table. I don’t know if you can do as sophisticated a style of painting in ToonBoom so Photoshop would probably serve you better.

With this particular type of job a Wacom Cintiq monitor helps a lot.

Lars Jagatai Bunch
lars@larsbunch.com
http://www.larsbunch.com

[Marc Alan sperber]

I heard an interview with the director on NPR and he talked about how they did it. Here’s a link to the show: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16968724
– – he talks about it around 8 min 50 secs into the show.

[Gareth Smith]

Hey Corinne –

The animation was entirely hand-made in the main title sequence for Juno. I know this because I was one of the two designers who patiently worked on it for months! We didn’t use any Photoshop filters – just a good set of color pencils, pens and scissors. After Effects was used to composite the background drawings and the hand cut-outs of Juno.

For more info, check out our making-of Flickr gallery:

https://flickr.com/photos/shadowplaystudio/sets/72157603777361412/

And here’s an article that goes over the process in a bit more detail:

https://mmbase.submarinechannel.com/titlesequences/video.jsp?video=30075

Hope this helps,

– g

[Greg Neumayer]

Great job to Gareth and his mates.

We did a project for Animal Planet that needed a “handdrawn” look, so we scanned our art, then animated it by overlaying a effect layer of Turbulent displacement and Frame Rate (at a low rate, like 8fps).

Might give you some of that look in a bit less time.
-Greg

Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com