EVA Film Main Titles by Dvein Press Release

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1 EVA Film Main Titles by Dvein Press Release October 2011

2 The Film

3 The Film We were invited by the Spanish film director Kike Maíllo to take part of his first feature film, Eva, by making the main titles. Eva is a retrofuturistic sci-fi thriller in which Alex, a young scientist, returns to the town where he grew up to complete an unfinished project and create a boy robot. For more infos about the film, click here.

4 The Hand Up

5 The Hand Up When we first met with Kike Maíllo, we were offered to take part of the film with a double challenge: firstly there was the design of the Hand Up and also we would be taking care of the main titles creation. For the Hand Up design, our goal was to create an interface through which Alex manipulated the robots. We wanted that the way in which he was mixing with the Hand Up wasn t plain, as if he was working with a screen, but something much more tridimensional, so that Alex using it was a much more physic activity. We wanted to see him standing, manipulating and moving around the Hand Up. At the same time we couldn t forget that functionality was also very important for this design, because the Hand Up is the control table that Alex was going to use with a very specific aim.

6 The Hand Up There were many elements of the story that we took as initial references for the Hand Up design. We were very attracted to the constant presence of snow in many scenes of the movie, so it came to our minds the fractal structure of the snowflakes that we also related with the connexion nets between nerve cells. This also came closely together because the Hand Up is actually the representation of the mechanisms that rule the robots behavior, but an immense library of memories as well, just like a human brain.

7 The Hand Up

8 EVA Film Main Titles. Press Release. The Hand Up We also wanted to reflect how one idea or thought of the consciousness, represented as an element in the Hand Up, influenced the others, as the movement of one gear affects the next one. This reminded us the clocks machinery and also the operation of the steam engine. The choice of crystal came from the attraction that we felt for the contrast between something that it s supposed to be metallic but which in fact it s made with glass, something that adds also a sensitive, feminine and uncommon component to the machine world as we conceive it normally. It also reminded of the early 20th century laboratories, full of bottles and test tubes made of glass, something that not only worked well with the retro vibe of the film but also gave the Hand Up a feeling of experimentation and discovery, in a very romantic way.

9 The Hand Up

10 Making the Titles To watch the titles, click here.

11 Making the Titles We worked in searching a key image that summarized what we wanted the credits to be. There were many tests before we got an original image of our own that will define them completely, and from there on, we built the rest of the shots: a simpler initial part, like an introduction, that turns into something more and more complex to introduce us to the world of Eva.

12 Making the Titles

13 Making the Titles

14 The Main Titles

15 The Main Titles

16 The Main Titles

17 The Main Titles

18 The Main Titles

19 The Main Titles

20 Credits Direction & Animation: Dvein Renderfarm: Renderfarm Solution Music: Evgueni Galperine & Sacha Galperine Sound Design: Oriol Tarragó

21 Dvein Direction Live Action & Animation