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My name is Dave Soderberg, I am from Denver Colorado and currently design full time for Beatport (beatport.com) as well as freelance under my company: Astrel Creative. I work mostly on interactive design in my free time and interface / interactive for my career. Nothing drives me more than design, the process of creating, and the struggle to constantly be inspired. I am a designer who loves to view, encourage and be inspired by other people's work and creativity. I see design as a constant challenge to communicate something / anything to anyone, whether you're communicating a message or trying to create an interface that is not only beautiful to look at but intuitive to even the most recreational user. Read my blog to see what I've been creating, inspired by or thinking about.
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May 29th, 2008
Iron Man Main Titles
People got mad at me for posting about Iron Man last year... said it was so "corporate" and all about war... blah blah blah. Can't we all at least agree that these closing titles by the incredible Danny Yount are insanely cool? Check it out .
Oh and by the way, the movie was awesome. And so is Starbucks, Apple and Bands that sell out.
Comments (8)
iron man is actually anti-corporate & anti-war & pro alternative fuels. not sure where people got that mixed up. credits were pretty cool too, though not as amazing as they could have been.
Not trying to get too out of the way here, but...
you can't be anti-war if you are holding a weapon.
I have not seen the movie, I've seen the credits before, nice work, not digging the music choice too much for this piece.
erm....it looks a bit of the ghost in the shell (the original movie) opening credits in wireframe.
"not as amazing as they could have been" sounds ridiculous. Especially without knowing the scope of the project (timing, staff, constraints, client, etc…)
sure, man. however you could say that about anything. it's the nature of all work and the criticism of it. i watched those credits & felt they lacked something. doesn't mean they aren't good, i just didn't think they were perfect.
oh & i wasn't saying ironman himself was anti-war, i'm talking about the overriding message of the film. it's got a very clear message on that front to say the least.
"not as amazing as they could have been" sounds vague. Can you quantify quality?
Personally, I find them refreshing - specially in the american movie industry - and due to my love of all things not photo realistic, I love it!
yeah -
i love the dirt & grain
i love the colours
i love the scrubbing out of RDJ's face to reveal the iron man line beneath
& i love the occasional pictoral spasm leading to thicker lines & blurs of colour
but it's all just too cold. the movie was more than just the technical drawings / building of iron man, it was something darker, cooler & funnier. this sequence is exciting more to geeks and designers than it is to those looking for the humour & character found in the film. it's less art than it is some wireframes and effects with a few nice elements thrown in.
i guess i feel like an extremely good credit sequence should really be an emotional one as well as a graphical one. you can go so far in being stylish that you lose track of the subject matter.
all i remember feeling as a i watched the sequence in the two times i saw this movie in the cinema is that i was left bored about half way through as it was losing the richness the movie had to offer and was overly happy with its own stylistic merits.
I'll have to watch the movie to comment on that one. :)