The Title of The Film

The film that is being animated as previously stated in earlier posts is "You Only Live Twice". At the very end of the trailer the name of the trailer will be displayed to the audience. The intended effect was to get a font as close to the original title as possible, to make it seem more authentic. This is the image of DVD cover of the film:



Details that have been noted so far were that the 'L' curve upwards, they are not just flat, this is the same for the 'U's they have the caps at the top of the letters. Plus, there is a low leading level as the characters are very close together and the font is bold as well. When browsing through the list of fonts, the ones that came close were 'Courier New Bold', 'David Bold', 'Impact' and 'Vani'. The fonts that were the closest were 'DilleniaUPC Bold' and 'GungsuhChe'. The one that was used was 'DilleniaUPC Bold', however when the text was converted to a poly, to extrude the letters so they have a dominant presence when rendered, the 'C' would not convert, whereas it would on 'GungsuhChe'. The font isn't as close as the first but it is close enough.

A material now needs to be added to it. To animate it to finish the trailer the use of lighting and cameras will be used to create the desired effect of how the title should appear to the audience.

The material that was added to the title is the smoke tool, with the colours that have been adjusted applied with the bump tool to add more texture, the smoke tool was used as the bump. This was the what it looked like afterwards:

For extra effect, '007' was added behind the title text with a smoke material applied to it. As there is a lot to fit into the trailer this will be rendered as it is and if there is time at the end within the trailer then more detail can be added. This is very unlikely, so it will be rendered like the image above in the render window. The title's only purpose is to inform the audience of what the film is. Plus, in other examples of trailers that are displayed at the cinema, the attention is directed at the film itself and the title is such a small part of it that it only tells the audience which film to ask to watch. A very small piece of the trailer but an important piece. An omni light was added to the scene, to make it easier to see the '007' text. So the audience have a chance to read the title, Auto Key was used for a second's worth of frames (60 frames) .

To add more texture to the words on screen, the dent map was added to the bump map along with having a smoke map as well, which works well in creating depth to each of the letters. To do this, in the material editor, under the maps section
This is the clip finished ready for editing at the end...