Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

Brent Barson and a team of design students and faculty at BYU created the opening titles for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. The stop motion animation sequences were created with Dragon Stop Motion, the Canon 5D Mark II and the Canon 40D.

The title sequence was recently featured on Motionographer.com

We asked Brent about his experience using Dragon Stop Motion:

“It enabled us to do things I would have thought impossible. Like the ability to load line up images and movies; doing the ‘beauty’ scene without an overlay movie would have been, well, very difficult. The ability to control our Canon Mark II 5D and 40D with it was amazing. And the keyboard shortcuts were essential. It is so obvious that it was made by people who do this exact thing all the time.”

Cinematographer Wynn Burton had this to say about Dragon Stop Motion:

“Hands down I think the best feature is that it lets you shoot in full-res RAW and keeps all your files organized for you. Not that we did a ton in post, but the possibilities for post-editing are unbelievable. Totally opens up stop-motion to be more about composing and making the subject beautiful rather than worrying about the process.

Most of what we shot could never have been done without it—particularly previewing capabilities and easy keyboard navigation.”