Puppet tool Practice...

This is my puppet tool practice I created using after effects (I had to upload it onto Youtube and post that way, as It just wasn't loading on here!...
I would love to incorporate the use of the puppet tool in my animation, as it is a really fascinating tool to work with, for creating small, almost life-like movements. It will be great for "human" parts of the animation.

Sweeney Todd Opening Sequence

Digital Kitchen

Digital kitchen is the company behind the title sequences, such as Dexter that i have already mentioned. i visited their website and here are a few more relevant examples of title sequences and other projects that use close-ups, a similar method that I would like to use.

House Main Titles from DIGITALKITCHEN on Vimeo.

Rescue Me Main Titles from DIGITALKITCHEN on Vimeo.

HBO Boxing Open from DIGITALKITCHEN on Vimeo.

Stanford Hospital Body from DIGITALKITCHEN on Vimeo.

Fancast- Beautiful title sequences- A good blog regarding interesting title sequences and use of close-ups, just as what i am trying to achieve in my animation.

I have found a few of the opening title sequences on the internet for some of the programmes mentioned on the fan cast website:

I really, really like this opening sequence. the beginning is especially fitting to my idea of building up a picture of my sequence for the Terminator.

The close- ups of the blood dripping on the face and into the sink, remind me greatly of the eye and arm surgery scene in the Terminator.

You know exactly what the character is doing in this sequence without seeing his face and giving away what he looks like.

I love the blurred refection in the mirror, which still doesn't give the character away... I could do this for my Terminator Sequence, as it would

mimic the screen where he carries out self- surgery, but you still don't know what the terminator looks like until you actually watch the film.

Nip/Tuck – Main Titles – Directed by Vincent Haycock from vincent haycock on Vimeo.

Close ups of the terminator carrying out eye and arm surgery on himself

very Yukky I know! One of the most stomach-churning scenes of the film, where the terminator tries to repair himself after fighting.

the CGI was brilliant at the time, but looks very dated now; you get to see inside the Terminators arms to see the metal structure and workings and he removes his humanistic eyeball to reveal that of a machine.

i may use close ups of such structures as the insides of the arms and eyes in my title sequence, perhaps when the terminator was first being put together.

edward scissorhands opening sequence

Edward Scissorhands - Opening Sequence
Uploaded by jeremylebre. - Independent web videos.

I was advised to take a look at the opening sequence of Tim Burton's, Edward Scissorhands for ideas on close-ups of parts of the body. I was told that it would be most effective if I didn't give away too much about the terminator in the opening titles and therefore if I just revealed parts of it, perhaps when it was being created it wouldn't give the game away.

i have included the video of the title sequence and a few stills from the video in this post. I am really keen on creating metal- type effects in my animation to show subtle hints that The terminator is in fact a machine and not human, although has human characteristics and can perspire and bled like a real human being.