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Nina Saxon is an award-winning title designer and art director of feature film and television title sequences. After graduating from UCLA's Motion Picture and Television program in 1975, Saxon began her career as a commercial motion graphics artist. During this time, she also worked as a special effects animator in feature films, most notably ...
Feb 23, 2020 · As Part One of our career retrospective discusses, Saxon started out as a visual effects artist on Star Wars (1977) and then spent the ’80s in a state of near-constant hustle, launching what was to become a 40-year career as a designer of memorable film and TV title sequences. With iconic work for box office hits Romancing the Stone (1984 ...
- Star Wars
- The 1980s and The Rise of The Blockbuster
- Romancing The Stone
- Back to The Future
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Soul Man
- Tin Men
While working at optical house Modern Film Effects, Saxon learned about rotoscoping and created all of the laser bullets for the first three Star Warsfilms. It was a lot of work but she makes it sound like a snap. “It was all done in black and white with mattes. George Lucas marked the place where the bullet came out and you had two or three frames...
The 1980s saw three important changes occur in the film industry: the rise of the blockbuster, the rise of the film franchise and the rise of the title design studio. Star Wars had swept in a megapicture mentality and with it a focus on branding, merchandise and visual effects. Many films of the era eschewed the full-fledged title sequence in favou...
On Romancing the Stone, Saxon took charge of the logo design, painting it with light the way she’d learned at Robert Abel & Associates and choosing the typeface for the credits that appeared over the opening scene. The action-adventure comedy, about a reclusive romance novelist (Kathleen Turner) who travels to Colombia to save her sister and soon f...
The studios behind Back to the Future, Universal and Amblin, were interested in establishing the film as a branded franchise. Two looks for the logotype had been developed: a slanted sans-serif similar to what we know today and one that, Saxon says, “looked like an old Western movie, which was really bad.” The editor, Artie Schmidt, preferred the l...
“That was fun, working with Raja Gosnell,” says Saxon. She considered her relationships with film editors vital. “They were really important because you were working to their counts and you had to make everything fit with them directly. It’s all relationships. That’s half the battle.” Since the opening scene to Mrs. Doubtfire, featuring Robin Willi...
For 1986’s Soul Man, a movie about a spoiled white teenager masquerading as Black in order to qualify for a scholarship, she devised a minimal but unique typographic solution that captured the film’s central themes. “I was reversing black and white,” she says. “There’s one letter that’s reversed… that was a good idea!” The letters are set tightly t...
The following year, Saxon collaborated with designer Deborah Ross and a shooting crew to capture a gleaming Cadillac for Tin Men. The film, about two dueling, cutthroat salesmen and their precious cars in 1960s Baltimore, opens with smooth shots of a Cadillac exterior, shimmering swaths of chrome and aluminum overlaid with embossed cursive typograp...
Mar 7, 2018 · Make sure your window is really clean. Remove the backing paper, spray the glass and the window film with a soapy water solution and then apply. You’ll receive a squeegee to then smooth the water and any air bubbles out from behind the film. And that’s it. It took me about 10 minutes to do both pieces.
Nina Saxon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in the California San Fernando Valley. [1] She attended the University of California, Los Angeles where she began studying psychology with aspirations of becoming a psychologist, but was drawn to animation after taking a course as an elective. [1][2] As a student, her first short film ...
Sep 27, 2019 · For 40 years, Nina Saxon has been a pioneer in the area of designing movie titles. She is still one of the few women working in this part of the industry. NAME: Nina Saxon COMPANY: Nina Saxon Desig…
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