Netflix teamed up with Mill+ for an opening sequence in the style of traditional Chinese ink painting.
Co-directors Ben Smith and co-director Bryce Wymer discuss the technique on the Mill+ blog here, describing how graceful drawings of the show’s themes of beauty, greed and betrayal are seen as abstract shapes slowly transforming into stark portraits and disturbing scenes. To create the look of an invisible artist creating the scenes, Mill+ used sumi-ink added to water paintings, all captured with an overhead projector.
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Agency
Agency: Netflix / The Weinstein Group
Producer: Stuart Burkin
Production
Director: Ben Smith, Bryce Wymer
Studio: Mill+
Executive Producer: Danielle Amaral
Live-Action Producer: Tia Perkins
Director of Photography: Adam Carboni
Art Director: Michael Marsicano
Editorial
Editing Company: Mill+
Editor: Charlotte Carr
Edit Assist: Leanne Belgiorno
Post-Production / VFX
Post-Production / VFX Company: The Mill
Executive Producer: Danielle Amaral
VFX Producer: Carl Walters
Shoot Supervisor: Daniel Giraldo
Creative Director: Ben Smith, Bryce Wymer
2D Lead Artists: Antoine Douadi
2D Artists: Daniel Giraldo, Yoon-sun Bae, Dan DiFelice
Motion Graphics: Chet Hirsch, Tetsuro Mise
Colourist: Michael Rossiter
Production Coordinator: Tarun Charaipotra
Design
Illustration: Bryce Wymer, Michael Marsicano
Designer: Gera Frascaroli
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