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Titles for Hellboy II: The Golden Army

We were delighted to be asked to work on the title sequence for fantastic new blockbuster "Hellboy II: The Golden Army".

Rushes were privileged to be able to work with titles designer Matt Curtis and the main VFX facility on the film, Double Negative, to help realise the Titles sequence for blockbuster "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" currently riding high in the UK Box Office charts.

The Titles themselves are based on the design of the Golden Army Chamber which appears later, in the climax of the film. Hundreds of Huge cogs run on massive moving shafts, meshing and un-meshing as various gears are engaged or separated. Double Negative’s CG Sequence Supervisor, Mark Masson, worked with Matt to design a fantastic, dynamic move, travelling through two different cog environments before coming to rest on a platform where the title itself is forged from the mechanical alignment of cogs and red hot metal.

Rushes Head of VFX, Paul Hannaford, was tasked with building a transitional portion of the titles to join the two cog worlds. Paul used Autodesk’s Flame to weave various illustrative elements into a fiery journey through the designs for the Golden Army, helping to integrate the two portions of CG cogs. While Paul worked on the transition, Hayden Jones, Alex Llewellyn and Jonathan Privett started building the cog section composites in Shake using Double Negative’s 3D passes.

Jonathan says, "It was great to be able to work in conjunction with DNeg and Matt Curtis. I am a great admirer of their work and really enjoyed the process of working collaboratively. I think the titles bear witness to the quality of work produced". Angela Noble and Mark Pascoe contributed various additional 3D elements and helped the Rushes team get the final minute long sequence finished inside 3 weeks from start to finish.

UK Cinema Release Date: 22nd August 2008

Universal Pictures

All images courrtesy of and with kind permission from Universal Pictures.

Title: "Hellboy II: The Golden Army"

Client: Double Negative

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Senior VFX Producer: Steve Garrard

Title Designer: Matt Curtis

Post Facility: Rushes

Rushes Producer:

Senior Flame Artist: Paul Hannaford

Senior Compositors: Jonathan Privett, Hayden Jones

Compositor: Alex Llewellyn

3D Artists: Angela Noble, Mark Pascoe

VFX Co-ordinator: Warwick Hewett

VFX Assistant: Alan Williamson

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