The color-pencil animated opening credit sequence for “Juno” has surfaced online thanks to its creator: Shadowplay Studio [15]. I learned about this from a Dec. 27 post [16] on /Film.
They were created by Shadowplay Studio, which is the same team who did the badass opening titles for “Thank You For Smoking”.
I met them back in 2000 when we both had short films playing the festival circuit. Their short (“This Guy is Falling”) was a really impressive half live-action/half animation piece they did in college.
When they did “Thank You For Smoking,” the titles were rendered on a series of computers in one of their mother’s living rooms. Now they got a fancy place in an art-deco building on Wilshire.
The “Juno” opening titles are out of control. I don’t want to give away too much, but the whole process was really labor intensive.
The Shadowplayers would have parties in which friends and family would help construct the whole thing. I can’t wait for you all to see it and then I can explain how it was done.
My interview with “Juno” star Ellen Page and “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody can be found here [19]. The HollywoodChicago.com film review of “Juno” by Shane Hazen can be found here [20].
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[5] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/ellen-page
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[10] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/jennifer-garner
[11] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/labels/juno.html
[12] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/michael-cera
[13] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/shadowplay-studio
[14] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/thank-you-for-smoking
[15] http://www.shadowplaystudio.com
[16] http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/27/junos-opening-credit-sequence/
[17] http://www.shadowplaystudio.com/juno/
[18] http://www.shadowplaystudio.com/smoking.html
[19] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/juno
[20] http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/2007/10/juno-first-livejournal-blogger-film.html