Paul Donnellon of VooDooDog, UK, created a beautiful title sequence with a handpainted feel for Love in the Time of Cholera. These are the Main Titles followed by the end credit sequence. Donnellon explains his reasons for going for the handpainted look.

Donnellon: "The film is set in the early 1900s in Colombia, South America, therefore I felt the sequence should not feel too digital and would have a hand painted oil painting feel to the rendering. The idea was to give a feeling of the colors and atmosphere of South America for the audience. The animation was a bit painstaking to produce as each frame of the beautifully rendered flowers had to move in a different way, rather than some mechanical animation."

"We put a lot of effort into the line test stage, studying time lapse flowers footage and getting the twisting feeling of the tendrils and flowers opening before commiting to the hand painting stage. I am sure no one other than fussy designers notice, but we think it was worth the effort rather than just making a straight computerised sequence."

“We had thought of creating some depth of field effects onto the final layers, but when we tried this it took away from the feeling that this was a flat canvas being painted on, so we scaled back."

"The final piece runs for just thirty seconds and seems simple, but a lot of care went into making it. For the end piece we created still images from our paintings, so this book ends the movie."

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Full credits

Film director
Mike Newell

Animators
Michelle Salamon and Paul Donnellon

Compositor
Andrew White

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