Moth City - Teaser Trailer [VIDEO]
Launch Trailer for online Graphic Novel - Moth City
Moth City is a comic that has mystery, horror and pulp fiction in its bones. On one hand a thrilling story of corruption and control during the Chinese civil war, on the other a genre mash of kung fu and detective fiction.
It will be available to you for free, forever, direct from its indie creator to people all round the world.This launch trailer attempts to combine all the genre, period and thematic notes into a tight and enticing package.
You can read the graphic novel or connect on facebook and twitter.
- Inspiration taken from old Kung-Fu movie and trailer intro, by producers like the Shaw Brothers.
- Reflecting both the logo and the hero typeface, angled lines and triangles are used to move us through the video, and will be a thematic touch that crosses into new work.
- The trailer briefly shows us some artwork from the comic itself.
- The project involved a lot of graphic design, as opposed to video, and showcased both the Moth City and the Flying Whities branding.
- A lot of time was spent findi ng the right typeface, that fitted the retro-deco-modern mash up.
- Various ideas for Asian languages and typefaces where experimented with, including Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
- Both the Moth City comic and the trailer take advantage of 3D modeling software to assist with the illustration process.
- Thanks for looking, I hope you like it. And if you wanna see more, make sure you check out our website - www.mothcity.com
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