netflix
the Decameron
Main Title Sequence

GRAND ILLUSIONS IN THE PESTILENCE

We conceived and created the opening title sequence for Kathleen Jordan’s mad new series The Decameron, on Netflix.

A storm of mischievous, hand-inked rodents swarm and scatter to tell stories of desire, escape, sickness, hope, desperation, prayer, and re-birth… all in the face of impending death.

It all came together through uncommon bedfellows; age-old hand-drawn animation combined with cutting edge particle and 3D work. An intrepid team of artists from Seattle, Barcelona, The Hudson Valley and Chicago came together to experiment, break, scratch, fail, code, claw and ultimately meld a miracle of craft spanning hundreds of years of techniques.

THE MAKING

The process was slow, unprecedented, wildly experimental, highly vulnerable to revisions, technically unrealistic, financially questionable, and generally problematic on most other fronts.

But the rats sprung to life, the team stayed undaunted and tireless, our wonderful client remained ever-trusting, the track composer sublime, and together we created a main title that looks. moves, sounds and most importantly, feels like nothing else on television.

  • Studio: Plains Of Yonder
    Concept and Story: Katrina Crawford
    Directors: Katrina Crawford & Mark Bashore
    2D Animation Lead, Animator: Harry Teitelman
    Character Designer, Illustrator, 2D Animator : Torin Bashore
    3D Production: MakMac Studio
    Lead 3D Artist, 3D Animator: Mauro Gimferrer
    3D Artist, 3D Animator: Marcos Coral
    3D Artist, 3D Technical Director: J.A. Duran
    Style frames, Compositing, Backgrounds, Typography, Color: Jason Esser
    Additional 2D Animation: Barbara Benas
    Editor: Mark Bashore
    Executive Producer: Paul Williamson
    Music: Ruth Barrrett


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