Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Kyle Cooper


Kyle Cooper is one of the best,famous and modern designers of motion picture specialized in crafting title sequence.Its also about  introductions and closings to films, videogames, and television which shows the list of the names of the cast and crew involved in the production. Kyle Cooper is the founder of two internationally famous film design companies, Imaginary FOrces and Prologue Films. One of his achievements was that he earned a M.F.A in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, where he studied with his friend Paul Rand. Moreover Cooper is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and holds the honorary title of Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts in London. . In this kind of industry Copper is the King, he is he has designed the lead-inst to 150 features including Donnie Brasco, Mission: Impossible, Spider Man, Tron:Legacy,Iron Man, and The Walking Dead.

One of his works that he did for the film Dawn of the Dead was using real human blood. A critic Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times review of the movie said “The opening and closing credits are so good; they're almost worth sitting through the film for." Indeed, the word in Hollywood is that some filmmakers have refused to work with Cooper, says Dawn of the Dead director Zach Snyder, because he's "the guy who makes title sequences better than the movie."His work on the intro sequence of Seven won universal acclaim and established him as a big player in the movie industry.

One of the most famous works he have done for the movie is the opening sequence for the movie Se7en. Cooper is quit happy with the work he have done with it, and he would really change anything if he had to do it again.Seven was one of the first movie’s to use Kinetic Typography for the into title sequence. The wizard behind the type treatment was Kyle Cooper, a pioneer in motion graphics, who later founded Imaginary Forces in 1996 with Peter Frankfurt and Chip Houghton.



So to overall Kyle’s Cooper career, he has been designing and producing opening credit sequence for fifteen years. First at R/Greenberg Associates NY and then R/Greenberg Associates LA. Then he founded Imaginary Forces and after that he founded Prologue Films.




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