Emmy Winner in 2020 for Outstanding Main Title Design
Production Company: Digital Kitchen
Client: Epix
Creative Director: Mason Nicoll
Art Director/Designer: Peter Pak
Producer: Michael Cates
Animation: Cisco Torres, Giovana Pham
Creative Director: Mason Nicoll
Art Director/Designer: Peter Pak
Producer: Michael Cates
Animation: Cisco Torres, Giovana Pham
I worked as a designer and animator with Digital Kitchen for a new Epix original show, Godfather of Harlem. The visual style was inspired by Romare Bearden and other artists of the Harlem Renaissance. To achieve this look, we created collages in Photoshop from different sources - royalty free imagery, our own actual photography, and cut outs from old magazines.
Some of these stop motion style animations were achieved in After Effects, while a few were created as real stop motion pieces, cutting, folding, and crumbling paper, frame by frame. The realistic paper textures were crucial for giving the piece visual specificity - like it was crafted with the tools that artists used in the early 20th century.
