Seven main title sequences are nominated for a Primetime Emmy at the 74th Annual Primetime Emmys this year: Hulu’s Candy, Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, Apple TV Plus’ Foundation, Apple TV Plus’ Lisey’s Story, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Apple TV Plus’ Pachinko and Apple TV Plus’ Severance. Apple TV Plus snagged four of those seven.
Once again, Imaginary Forces and Elastic are largely battling for the Emmy. Imaginary Forces has four of those nominations, Elastic two and Berlin-based motion graphics artist Extraweg one for Severance. Honorable mention goes to Seattle-based agency Plains of Yonder for the main titles for HBO’s The White Lotus, which were not nominated for outstanding main-title sequence but was nominated for Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s memorable score.
Below are the nominees for this year’s outstanding original main-title design:
Hulu’s Candy
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CREDITS
Client: Hulu
Production: Imaginary Forces
CD: Ronnie Koff
Designer: Elizabeth Steinberg, Ronnie Koff
Animator: Nader Husseini, Rob Slychuk
Editor: Lexi Gunvaldson
Executive Creative Director: Peter Frankfurt
Head of production: Ryan Burcham
Producer: Michael Boretz
Netflx’s Cowboy Bebop
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CREDITS
Client: Netflix
Agency: Imaginary Forces
Creative Director: Karin Fong
Designer/Animator: James Gardner, Kiyoon Nam, Merrill Hall, Kathy Liang
Editor: Lexi Gundvaldson
Design Interns: Anna Chen, Kayley Wang, Kelly Stoia
Additional Compositing: Charlie Proctor
Producer: Steve Garfinkel
Music by Yoko Kanno
Coordinator: Jackson Kerr
Apple TV Plus’ Foundation
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CREDITS
Client: Apple TV Plus
Agency: Imaginary Forces
Creative Director: Ronnie Koff
Executive Creative Director: Peter Frankfurt
Head of Production: Melody Alexander
Producer: Ryan Burcham, Steve Garfinkel
3d Animation: Philipp Pavlov, Danil Krivoruchko, Brandon Lester
2d Animation: Nicole Dileo
Design: Nicole Dileo, Brandon Savoy, James Gardner, Ronnie Koff
Compositor: Martin Karlsson, Joe Taylor
Editor: Zach Kilroy
Assistant Editor: Lexi Gunvaldson
Composer: Bear McCreary
Coordinator: Jackson Kerr
Apple TV Plus’ Lisey’s Story
CREDITS
Client: Apple TV Plus
Agency: Imaginary Forces
Directors: Karin Fong, Osbert Parker
Producer: Renee Robson
Cinematographer: Michael Bernard
Puppeteers: Tyler Stuart, Jeff Speetjens
Puppet Fabrication: Michael Curry Design
Prop Stylist: Matthew Eikelberger
Edited by Lexi Gunvaldson
Lead Designer/Modeler/Animator: Henry Chang
Animators: Merrill Hall, Russ Gautier
Storyboard: Justin Quinlan
VFX Support: Brandon Savoy
Additional Design: Kathy Liang, Fernando Lazzari, Jake Ferguson, Isabell Hacker
Interns: Kayley Wang, Eugene Hyun
Production Coordinator: Jake Fritz
Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building
CREDITS
Design Studio: Elastic
Creative Director: Lisa Bolan
Designers: Laura Perez Tnaya Witmer
Animator: James Hurlburt, Evan Larimore, Tnaya Witmer, Chavilah Bennet
Producer: James Howell
CG Supervisor: Kirk Shintani
Editor: Jessica Ledoux
Modelers: DBox
Deputy Head of Production: Zach Wakefield
Head of CG Production: Michael Steinmann
Executive Producer: Luke Colson
Executive Producer / Head of Production: Kate Berry
Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall
Apple TV Plus’ Pachinko
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CREDITS
Client: Apple TV Plus
Design Studio: Elastic
Creative Directors: Angus Wall, Nadia Tzuo
Animators: Lucy Kim, Trix Taylor, Zack Citro, Chavilah Bennett
Editors: Nathaniel Park, Rachel Fowler
Designers: Nadia Tzuo, Carlo Sa
Typographer: Ben Woodlock
Color Pipeline Management: Andrew Young
Senior Producer: Paul Makowski
Producer: HJ Kim
Deputy Head of Production: Zach Wakefield
Executive Producer: Luke Colson
Executive Producer / Head of Production: Kate Berry
Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall
Color Studio: Primary
Colorist: Kya Lou
Color Assistant: Ale Amato, Corey Martinez, David Oh
Color Producer: Diane Valera
Color Coordinator: Jessica Clark
Executive Producer: Thatcher Peterson
Apple TV Plus’ Severance
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CREDITS
Title Art Direction/Concept Animation: Oliver Latta (extraweg)
Music and Score: Theodore Shapiro
Typography + Typography Animation: Teddy Blanks
Post: Nick Waetjen, Post Mango
Five sequences are nominated for original main title theme music. These are:
Disney Plus’ Marvel Studios’ Loki
Composer: Natalie Holt
Only Murders in the Building
Composer: Siddhartha Khosla
Severance
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Netflix’s Squid Game
Composer: Jung Jae-il
HBO/HBO Max’s The White Lotus
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Composer: Cristobal Tapia de Veer
All main-title winners will be named during night two of the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 4.
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