You've got to give it up for Momoco. This small London studio did what many title designers only dream of – they made their own film. Copelia is a short, intelligent sci-fi love story that features some of the most hallucinogenic futurescapes we've ever seen. Watch the Titles premieres the main title and we picked designer Nic Benns' brain about his pet project, as he shares the amazing process work. A Watch the Titles exclusive.

An unusual mix of ink-painted backgrounds, cartoon animations and improvised typography designed with oil pastel crayons. The main title for Fantômas se Déchaîne is officially credited to Berthon Films. But who was the creative force behind this forgotten studio? This quintessentially French piece of animaton could not be left uncredited...

Director Roman Polanski directed Che? in 1972. It's the last movie he made before heading off to the US to shoot Chinatown - the movie he is now most known for. The subtle and poetic handwritten title sequence for Che? was designed by Jean-Michel Folon - a Belgian artist living in France. It's a lovely ode to the classic Hollywood title sequences of the 1930's and 1940's, set to Schubert's "Death and the Maiden."

UPDATE, Oct 1: Exclusive on Watch the Titles: the article now also includes the brilliant animated VA sequence from "Magic Trip." Karin Fong, Creative Director at Imaginary Forces directs the main titles and special sequences for Magic Trip – a movie about Ken Kesey's legendary, LSD-infused 1964 road trip from California to New York. Fong and her team did an amazing job visualizing Kesey's altered state of mind. You won't be seeing any "crazy rainbow CG flying unicorns." Instead, analogue, lo-fi animation techniques from the 1960s define the movie's psychedelic aesthetic.

Tipped off by the mere hint that Hollywood heavyweight actor Edward Norton would be directing a feature based on Jonathan Lethem novel, French designer Remy Le Rumeur rolled onto an ambitious venture to create his version of the opening titles to the anticipated “Motherless Brooklyn” movie. Immersing himself in research and taking cues from Dadaism and the book’s Tourette syndrome suffering protagonist, Le Remeur created titles centered around intrigue and gritty side to Brooklyn’s landscape.

Momoco is arguably one of the most prolific UK studios specialized in creating main titles for film and tv. Their body of work includes many main titles for tv shows, such as the crime drama Luther (BBC), the BAFTA-nominated titles for Misfits (E4), and more recently Strike Back (HBO). The list of movie titles is even longer and includes 30 Days of Night, Hard Candy, Dangerous Parking, Love Actually and recently The Three Musketeers. On the occasion of our feature obout Momoco's amazing sci-fi short Copelia, we're publishing this video interview Miki Kato and Nic Benns.

Prologue's Simon Clowes crafted a crisp and clean Maurice Binder-esque graphical representation of what lies at the very core of the formidable powers of the X-Men superheroes: gene mutation. In this Making Of X-Men: First Class, Clowes talks about his title sequence, the lasting appeal of the classic Main Titles by Bass and Binder, and he shows us the original board art, an alternative 3D motion test, and more.

"it needs to be a 'you-should-have-been-there' moment," was essentially the creative brief of the annual Playgrounds Digital Arts Fest to design studio HEYHEYHEY. Together they came up with the idea to do a Live Titles Show wherein the speakers would perform their own titles. An extremely stressful but very rewarding experience, according to HEYHEYHEY. The audience seemed to love every second of it, and so did we. You should have been there...

This title sequence brings us back to one of the main reasons why we started Forget the Film, Watch the Titles back in 2006 – to recognize and pay tribute to title designers. Unfortunately, the identity of the title designer who created the whimsical stop-motion titles for The Troubles of Alfred remains unknown.