Recently, I’ve been doing some animated titles for Elijah Drenner of END Films, whom I previously worked with on American Grindhouse. These are fun assignments, usually done to imitate the style of other movies.

For instance, here’s the opening to a piece on John Carradine, for Subkultur’s German DVD release of Gallery of Horrors. For this, I attempted to imitate the opening of Gallery, which had a lot of colored smoke. We chose some gothic fonts to go with it, one of which carried through to the final packaging.

John Carradine DVD animation from Mike Boas on Vimeo.

And here’s the opening for a piece on Roger Corman, produced for the “Nurses” box set from Shout! Factory. For this, we wanted something that evoked 1970s title design and colors. A long piece of intro music made it an extra challenge.

Roger Corman DVD animated titles from Mike Boas on Vimeo.