Yes – Title Animation

Yes is a small company from NY. USA doing short digital films. The title design was commissioned to us prior to their film’s release.

Process

The sequence is a live shot rotoscoped and created manually in vector form. The basketball on fire was added later on a separate layer of 3D. Both the player and the Ball were created based on a live footage.

A frame showing the traced out actor and the basketball created and later replaced in 3D

Final Frame of the title sequence

Animation included various camera angles