Sinners
Prologue/Title Sequence
Ryan Coogler and team reached out to discuss an opening sequence for their upcoming Sinners film. The sequence needed to be tonally appropriate for the movie but also give the audience context for the story of Sammy, his cousins, and the dangers lurking around them.
Year
2024
Client
Warner Bros
Sinners Prologue Sequence
Our team discussed a few different handmade aesthetics with Ryan and team, ultimately settling on the linocut/woodcut style for the prologues sequence.
I was able to find a uniquely talented linocut artist, Mike Black, who worked digitally and physically in this medium. We then set up a pipeline of digitally sketching these ideas and building a 3D scene to mimic the hand cut qualities of linocut, using reference from Mike’s work for things like texture and cut marks. Within that scene we could then control lighting, camera, and manage revisions easier than by hand-cutting each scene.
This all resulted in an unbelievably beautiful and haunting sequence for Sinners.
Studio: Perception
Chief Creative: Doug Appleton
Producer: Eric Daly
Junior Producer: Alex Gutierrez
Artists: Vivian Amaro, Mike Black, Sagnik Sengupta, Ryan Uhrich
Editor: Josh Hamester
"Thanks so very much brother!
Couldn’t have done it without you all’s contributions!"
— Ryan Coogler
