Prologue: The Game is Afoot
If you were one of the millions of people who caught Sherlock Holmes over the holidays, you probably found it to be a rollicking good time befitting director Guy Ritchie’s sensibility for snappy (and sometimes indecipherable) dialogue and rapid-fire action.
Prologue lent its hand to the project for the main on end credits, opening logo sequence and for the newspaper transitions throughout the film. The main on end sequence kept me in my seat, if only for the elegant interplay of calligraphy and freeze-framed illustrations. For all their elements in the film, Prologue’s art direction was a subtle blend of Victorian references and contemporary design, eschewing rigidly accurate imagery for an interpretation that echoed Ritchie’s lively re-imagining of Holmes himself.
Check out all three elements:
Credits
Design Company
PROLOGUE FILMS
Creative Director
Danny Yount
Design Direction
Simon Clowes
Henry Hobson
Lisa Bolan
Illustration
Jorge Almeida
Chris Sanchez
Calligraphy
Bonnie Ebbs
VFX
Jose Ortiz
Todd Sheridan Perry
Animation
Joey Park
Alasdair Wilson
Compositing
Brett Reyenger
Miles Lauridsen
Editorial
Gabriel Diaz
Producer
Unjoo Byars
Executive Producer
Kyle Cooper
Coordinator
David Kennedy
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STUDIO / CLIENT
Warner Bros. / Silver Pictures
Director
Guy Ritchie
Producers
Joel Silver
Lionel Wigram
Susan Downey
Lauren Meeks
Saw this in the theater and immediately thought “Danny Yount must have been in on this”. I loved it. My wife loved it too, a lot, which of course made me feel inadequate. Thanks Danny.
Danny Yount is da’ man. Two thumbs up to the creative team at Prologue.
danny yount just keeps killing it.!
Great job done by the illustrators & animators.
Love the titles. Did Fugitive Studios out of Britain help with these too?
From what I saw, Fugitive did the end titles, and Prologue did the opening. At least that’s what it said at the end of the movie. Are we sure this is credited correctly?
Finally. Some original opening logos. I’ve been waiting for this day.
Love the illustrations and animations but what is that horrific music doing there? Whether you like it or not is of course subjective but there’s no way it fits at all.
i like what i see
those logos are hot! i would let the guy who did the 3d on those date my girlfriend’s sister!
deanimate: You are correct the music does not fit that well. I saw the movie and it has a different audio track. A more fitting one. :)
everything is top notch – but those opening logos are DIVINE. i really would’ve loved to see that design-direction taken with the rest of the end title.
really nice work guys! as always
tdmach1: Good to hear. I look forward to renting this and hopefully watching the end credits without having to mute them.