GUERILLA FX CREATES TITLES AND VFX FOR 'NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU'
Bair designed and hand animated the film's elaborate main titles. The extreme fast motion sequence shows the Union Square market and cityscapes, all of which have been stylized and colored to create a mood. He then added a huge, hand-written, hand-animated piece of text that writes the film's title.
Bair, Connolly and compositor Scott Winston also executed 40 of the film's visual effects shots, which range from the straight forward to a projected art show on the side of buildings.
"We treated that footage to make it look like an artist had interpreted the shots and then digitally composited them onto the sides of buildings, onto window sills, and other surfaces, creating an art show that was never there," Bair explains. "It involved designing the look of that footage, placing it in the shots and making it all look seamless. It was really exciting effects-wise."
After Effects CS3 was used for 2D animation and design. Autodesk 3DS Max was used for 3D, and SynthEyes helped with match moving. The studio has Intel Xeon Processor-based PCs running Windows XP 64-bit, and Intel Macs running OSX.