Cowboy Bebop

I had the honor of joining the team at Imaginary Forces to design and animate the main title for the live action Cowboy Bebop. It was a long journey with a great squad that started back in 2019. For anyone who knows the original, this is touchy ground, because that opening is already perfect. We gave it everything we had to stay true to its spirit while meeting what the client was after.

The early stages leaned more graphic, pulling from vintage screen print posters, and I was fully sold on that feel. We landed somewhere in between based on the client's vision. Kiyoon Nam set the overall look by lifting the blacks and bringing in the screen print textures, and I loved where it went. Jake Ferguson built early development frames that we carried through the whole project. Kathy Liang did beautiful work on the typography, even rigging a procedural comp in After Effects that scaled the boxes around the type automatically.