HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

I am 25 now.

1984 was the birth of Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Ghostbusters. SO WE OWN YOU. IMAGINE LIFE BEFORE 1984. HOW WAS IT? BORING, RIGHT? Michael Bay wouldn't be rich if it weren't for 1984, people would still ignore turtles and as for ghosts? They... would still be as scary.

As a gift for myself, I'd like to ask you. What do you get, when you take...



with

?


You get this:




This intense marriage between two- wait, THREE of my favourite things (saul bass, star wars and swing music) were done so tastefully that I simply cannot deny its existence. I LOVE IT. I wish I knew more details of this animator (his youtube account doesn't say much), but obviously he used Bass' papercut animation style to portray the opening titles, according to the tempo. Not that I said style not technical style. This is definitely achievable in flash or after effects. I can see the inspiration coming especially from The Man with The Golden Gun:




This style has inspired many, especially opening/ending titles for recent films like 'Catch Me If You Can" (we all know how it looks like so I don't have to show it to you guys okaaayyyy) and The Incredibles. It appears at every trumpet blare with great timing, and followed so closely to the stamp on titles of the 60's era. Can you imagine how it was back then, to animate opening titles frame by frame? After Effects has spoiled us all, and yet we are pushing ourselves further with the technology we have!!!!

Since it's raining like crazy here on Sunday, I am just going to shove the cheesecake into my mouth and cry myself to sleep...