I lead the hologram/screen design and opening title crawl typography with the illustrious Andrew Kramer “Special Projects” team at Bad Robot’s top secret vfx wing Kelvin Optical. I was joined by master animator Navarro Parker and wicked compositors: Seth Donald, Ryan Wieber, Brandon Flyte, Brian Sales and Dustin Hudson. This was my all-time, top bucket-list project.
Here’s a quick vid of some of our work on the film:
The team
Director JJ Abrams
VFX Supervisor Roger Guyette
Bad Robot Producer Ben Rosenblatt
Head of Production Mike Silver
VFX Coordinator Alicia Lowndes
VFX Producer Chrysta Marie Burton
“Special Projects” VFX Lead Andrew Kramer
Lead Designer/Animator/Compositor Jayse Hansen
Designer/Animators
Navarro Parker
Compositors
Seth Donald
Brandon Flyte
Brian Sales
Ryan Wieber
Dustin Hudson