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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

designer: DUCK • comment

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In 2004, Jamie Caliri directed the beautiful animated end credits for Lemony Snicket's - A Series of Unfortunate Events. One of the most impressive credit sequences of 2004, we wrote.

The end credits of Madagascar 2 are not as epic or as elaborate, nor do they share the same richness of texture and level of detail, but for motion studio DUCK, Caliri created a very entertaining title sequence that embodies his signature style.

The movie's main characters - Marty the zebra, Alex the lion, Gloria the hippo, Melman the giraffe, along with some of the supporting cast; all reappear in the end credit sequence, albeit in a different form. They are redesigned as animated 3D paper models set against hand painted background images. The abstract geometric patterns have that distinctive African vibe.