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Chasseurs De Dragons (2008)

Chasseurs De Dragons
Dragon hunting isn't a fairy tale.
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Created by Mac Guff Studios for Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak’s animated fantasy adventure, the title sequence to Chasseurs de dragons (also known as Dragon Hunters) is a steampunk wonderland, populated with intricate, animated clock components, foreign nautical contraptions, skeletal remains, and cartographic and cosmic imagery, all bathed in a warm firelight and explored by a single graceful camera move.

The sequence begins with the camera pulling away from the film’s opening scene and back through the eye of a dilated porthole, locking the audience into a world that is both microscopic and panoramic. The imagery is ethereal at first, with bundles of gears orbiting around each other as celestial bodies do, backed by parchment illustrations of fantasy worlds and arabesque patterns, dotted with illuminated constellations. Over time, the imagery becomes more concrete, slowly escorting the audience out of the sequence and back into the story.

  • Credits

Directors: Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak

Main Title Design: Mac Guff Studios
Music: Klaus Badelt

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Title sequence

  • Category

    Film
  • Styles

    2000s, 3D, CGI, animation, digital, macroscopic, main title
Chasseurs De Dragons
  • Film Directors

    Guillaume Ivernel
    Arthur Qwak
  • Release Date

    March 26, 2008
  • Aspect Ratio

    1.85:1
  • Studio

    Futurikon
  • Country

    France
  • Language

    French
  • Reviews

    Reviews on Letterboxd
  • IMDb has full details

Article

  • Writer

    Ben Radatz
  • Published

    February 6, 2012

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