The Best Title Sequences of 2021
In a year that felt very much like a run-on of 2020, many of us found solace and joy in screen-based arts and entertainment. Art of the Title’s eighth annual list of the year’s top 10 title sequences celebrates the cream of the crop of motion-based graphic design from among film, television, festivals and conferences. This year, the panel chose its top titles from among work completed not just in 2021 but also 2019 and 2020 as many studios pushed release dates back, hoping for an ease in pandemic restrictions.
As with 2020, we reached out to our community to pull in new voices and to expand the team that calls the shots for the Top 10 Title Sequences of the Year.
Chosen by Art of the Title’s panel of experts
The panel for 2021 includes: Dan Boland, art director, The Price Is Right; Briar Levit, designer and educator; Dorca Musseb, director and animator; Norman Wong, director and photographer; Aleysa Young, director; plus Art of the Title’s Editor-in-Chief Lola Landekic and founder Ian Albinson.
The list below includes title sequences that were painstakingly modeled, animated, painted, composited, illustrated, torn and pasted, shot, acted and typeset by teams large and small all around the world, with budgets modest and mighty, in state-of-the-art facilities and in home studios. So sit back, relax and enjoy some of the most interesting and innovative work to hit screens in 2021.
Art of the Title’s Top 10 Title Sequences of 2021
10. Cruella
CATEGORY: Film
Created by Elastic
Disney’s Cruella, a film centered on the villain from the studio’s 1961 hit One Hundred and One Dalmations, boasts a cast including the Emmas (Stone and Thompson), a lavish array of costumes, a soundtrack sparkling with ’70s hits, splashes of razor-sharp graphics and a sultry closing sequence. As Cruella De Vil (Emma Stone) and her hero-turned-rival the Baroness (Emma Thompson) square off in elaborate fashion battles all over 1970s London, headlines smack on screen and frame Cruella, pronouncing her the “FUTURE OF FASHION”…
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