Creating the My Hero Title Sequence

 

 

Malcolm Dalton, who designed and directed the title and end credits sequences for My Hero, has shared some of the secrets of their production.

"Did you know that the person flying in the titles is not actually Ardal? Only the close up grin is the man himself!

"The rest is a stand-in called Eddie. At one point poor Eddie was suspended on fine tunsten wires, six feet above the floor of the studio. The sequence was shot using a "Chroma-key" effect to place Thermo Man onto the night sky. A computer controlled camera was used to move around him to create the sense of movement. Wind machines and wires create the feeling of speed causing the cape to flap creating the finished effect.

"The planet Ultron was actually a fibre glass globe open on one side with rotating lights to give the lava effect. "Stars, smoke and streaks were added electronically on a Digital Frame store called 'Fire'.

"The title lettering is a font called "Geometric" and a variation of this font was vacuum formed in silver plastic which was turned a gold colour electronically. The image of the Earth was a simple still picture taken from the public domain photographed by NASA."

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