The April/2009 issue of CR magazine features The Annual, showcasing the best work of 2008. CR goes through the process of how Lobo‘s wonderful hand-crafted title sequence for Brazilian TV series Capitu was made:

Capitu's Title Squence by Lobo featured on Creative Review's "Annual Best in Book"

Capitu is a Brazilian TV mini-series adaptation of 19th-century novelist Machado de Assis’ work, Dom Casmurro. The story centres on an ageing man looking back on his life in an attempt to discover whether his best friend is the true father of his son, who he has raised with his wife, Capitu.

De Assis’ novel is now considered one of Brazil’s most important Modernist texts and, in order to convey its radicalism, motion graphics studio Lobo looked to the Dadaist movement as inspiration for the TV show’s opening titles and interstitials. The team referenced what several avant-garde artists called ‘décollage’, a process where – rather than building up an image through layering – cutting and tearing instead reveals layers of buried images.

Here is the title sequence:

YouTube link: Capitu's Title Squence by Lobo

And here it’s how it was made:

YouTube link: Capitu's Title Squence Making-of by Lobo

via Creative Review – CR Annual Best in Book: Capitu.

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• “Brazil Contemporary” Exhibition opens in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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