Major Project 21 - Title Design

I wanted the title to reflect the sci-fi and western themes of the film. My plan is to make the logo in 3D to give some cool animation and lighting. I have never been confident with typography, so I asked Andy to be my ideas man. I gave him a brief of keeping the text in a modern vain but with slight hints of western inspirations too. I didn't know how to go about this so I left him to play with it because I trusted his ability to make some cool ideas.

This sheet was really cool with many different takes on the ideas for the logo. The version I liked the most was the upper right title but in the long version rather than stacked. I really like the unique silhouette of this design. The notes I gave to Andy was just to develop that path further and bring some more western ideas into it. He came back with these ideas...

I really liked the way this develops, my favourite being the very bottom version. But I had concerns with the legibility of it. The 'i' and 't' look identical in the way they join together.

So when I came to make the title in Maya, I experimented with the position of these gaps in order to make the top line of the 'T' more identifiable as a 'T'. The modelling is going well, and faster than expected.

 

I feel this works very nicely. Once I have finished modelling the logo, I intend to animate the letters flying into place and play around with some cool looking lighting for a nice title screen at the end of the film and branding for the film.