We sat down with main title designer Danny Yount at the Prologue studios in Venice Beach, L.A. Yount talked about his main title for Iron Man, his Emmy award-winning main title for the HBO show Six Feet Under and the differences between designing for television and film. (6'20" mins.).

Fourth in a series of five video interviews with Main Title Designers recorded in L.A. in 2009. See also our interviews with Jamie Caliri, Karin Fong and Garson Yu.

To embed or download this interview: vimeo.com/7842502

Watch Danny Yount's main titles for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Reaping and The Invasion at Forget the Film, Watch the Titles.
Watch Iron Man and Six Feet Under at Art of the Title.

As a self-taught designer, Danny Yount learned everything he knows the hard way. It was the work of Kyle Cooper that lead him in the direction of main title design.

"It wasn't until I heard about what Kyle Cooper was doing with Imaginary Forces that I was able to get a clear sense of what I wanted to do," Danny told Desktop in an interview, "From that point on I made it my goal to design main titles. To me it was like gravity – it seemed to be the most logical thing to do. I spent a year building a reel and refining my skills."

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Full credits

Director
Femke Wolting and Remco Vlaanderen

Editing
Paul de Heer

Thanks
Danny Yount and the staff at Prologue

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Comments (8):

27 Nov 09 • by: Shannon Wilkerson

I am having a problem viewing the videos on this site. I have the newest version of Flash and firefox installed. Are there any others out there who have had this problem and can help me out?

28 Nov 09 • by: remco

I'm sorry you're having this problem Shannon. This is a known but rare Flash bug that occurs with some system configurations. There's nothing we can do about it now. Hopefully a new Flash version will come out soon that will fix the problem. Did you try other browsers?
This interview is available on Vimeo.

28 Nov 09 • by: Izzy

Thanks for the Vimeo link, I've had the same issue for more than a year here:(
(multiple configs, but Firefox seems to be the similar factor with both)

28 Nov 09 • by: Ash

Great interview with Danny Yount.
It sounds a basic prerequisite for creating tiles but he's right about the importance of really understanding the story and tone of the film before starting. Love Rock 'N' Rolla.

30 Nov 09 • by: supernam

I luv danny~!

2 Dec 09 • by: Grayhorn

So nice to watch and hear an artist having fun with his skill ... Danny's work has me hanging out for the 15 minutes at the end of the flick, watching the credits roll and waiting for surprise end titles.

3 Dec 09 • by: LA

Danny is the shit.

3 Dec 09 • by: LA

Danny is the shit. Effortlessly talented. Great, humble person. There is just no other way about it.

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