Titles and Credits

After all of my animating was complete, I focused on the titles and credits whilst Emma was busy editing. For the opening title, we decided that we wanted to create something similar to the actually Rewilding Britain Logo. We decided that we didn't want a completely still title, because this would look very bland.

I took the logo to use as inspiration. We still wanted our title to be recognisable but not too different from the original. Since this animation would only be for academic purposes, we didn't see any problem with altering it to suit the aesthetic of our animation. 

Below is out final title for the opening of our animation. In order to avoid it looking bland, and to give it some life, I drew it out twice and then played it back in a loop. This gave it a slight shake, which is what we wanted. The reason I decided to add swirls to the inside of the paw, was because after a discussion with Emma, we decided it was important to mention in our blurb something about the Identity of Britain, therefore making the paw look like finger prints could work well.

For the end credit, we decided that having a simple background that connects with the style of our animation would work well. I took one of the textures I had created during pre-production, expanded it, and lowered it's opacity slightly, so that it was't too intense. 

I then hand wrote each credit as a separate layer.

I saved each credit as a PNG, so that they could be placed into AfterEffects and moved around easily. Also, this would leave Emma several option of the way she wanted to present them.