Mongrel Media Intro

Mongrel Media is one of Canada’s leading film distribution companies specializing in art house, foreign and independent feature films and documentaries.

Helios created a new title intro to be debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. Slow motion footage of a running dog was stabilized, tracked and rotoscoped. The resulting footage was layered into a dynamic composition and treated to resemble the look of an animated oil painting.

Sound design by John Black at cypheraudio.

The oil treatment of the footage was done by using software that allowed us to script custom paintbrushes and paint action sequences that automatically processed the video images.

While we ended settling on a stark monochrome approach, we scripted many different paint action sequences that looked astonishingly realistic.

Here are couple of stills of the results:

Here’s a short explanation of the process from start to finish: