{"id":21218,"date":"2019-06-08T21:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21218"},"modified":"2019-06-08T21:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T02:34:53","slug":"credit-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21218","title":{"rendered":"Credit sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really love <a href=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BsrPO8qslBE>the opening animation sequence for <i>Good Omens<\/i><\/a>. That sequence was created by <a href=http:\/\/peterandersonstudio.co.uk\/>Peter Anderson Studio<\/a> in London. It captures the flavor of the show perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>The character animation style in that sequence is a direct quote of the groundbreaking character animation style of <a href=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I>the video for <i>Little Talks<\/i> by <i>Of Monsters and Men<\/i><\/a>. That earlier music video was created in 2012 by <a href=http:\/\/wwm.productions\/>WeWereMonkeys<\/a> in Montreal, run by Mihai Wilson and Marcella Moser.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, there is no connection whatsoever between the two sets of creators. It seems that the highly innovative style of the earlier piece was simply lifted wholesale to create the later piece.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that there are no copyright laws protecting &#8220;style&#8221;. Still, the whole thing gives me an uneasy feeling. As far as I can tell, something truly new and innovative was simply taken from its original creators, and my gut tells me that there should have been some sort of legal protection for those original creators.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I am wrong, and there was indeed some sort of collaboration between the two studios. If so, that would be delightfully good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really love the opening animation sequence for Good Omens. That sequence was created by Peter Anderson Studio in London. It captures the flavor of the show perfectly. The character animation style in that sequence is a direct quote of the groundbreaking character animation style of the video for Little Talks by Of Monsters and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Credit sequence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21219,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions\/21219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}