2024 Titles
SXSW
Every year since 2015, we’ve had the honor of pumping up audiences for the SXSW Film & TV Festival with opening titles. For the 2024 titles, we worked closely with the SXSW team to build something that oozes Austin character and flair. The titles played before every movie at the festival in historic theaters across the city as hundreds of cinefiles from around the world celebrated film and filmmakers.
2024 Titles
SXSW
Every year since 2015, we’ve had the honor of pumping up audiences for the SXSW Film & TV Festival with opening titles. For the 2024 titles, we worked closely with the SXSW team to build something that oozes Austin character and flair. The titles played before every movie at the festival in historic theaters across the city as hundreds of cinefiles from around the world celebrated film and filmmakers.
2024 Titles
SXSW
Every year since 2015, we’ve had the honor of pumping up audiences for the SXSW Film & TV Festival with opening titles. For the 2024 titles, we worked closely with the SXSW team to build something that oozes Austin character and flair. The titles played before every movie at the festival in historic theaters across the city as hundreds of cinefiles from around the world celebrated film and filmmakers.
Styleframes
Styleframes
Our team brainstormed and landed on a concept that warps the traditional western motif with fun colors, hand-drawn marks, odd photobashing, paper cut-outs, and outlandish proportions.
Art director Elena Chudoba brought humor and happy vibes to these boards. And an incredible team of designers and animators brought every character, texture, and fine detail to life. The playful, happy celebration of SX is magnified by music created by Wally and sound design by Jen Pague.
Support indie film, always!
Styleframes
Our team brainstormed and landed on a concept that warps the traditional western motif with fun colors, hand-drawn marks, odd photobashing, paper cut-outs, and outlandish proportions.
Art director Elena Chudoba brought humor and happy vibes to these boards. And an incredible team of designers and animators brought every character, texture, and fine detail to life. The playful, happy celebration of SX is magnified by music created by Wally and sound design by Jen Pague.
Support indie film, always!
Behind the Shield
Behind the Shield
Behind the Shield
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
Credits
Credits
Credits
Client:
SXSW
Creative:
Coat of Arms
Creative Directors:
Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque
Concept Development:
Jonathan Lacocque, Clara Lehmann,
Elena Chudoba, David Reyes
Design Director:
Ryan Butterworth
Art Director:
Elena Chudoba
Producers:
Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque
Grace Lawson
Designers:
Elena Chudoba, Paige Lu
Animators:
David Reyes, Peiqing Lu, Carly Johnson,
Composer:
Wally
Sound Mixer and Designer:
Jennifer Pague
Client:
SXSW
Creative:
Coat of Arms
Creative Directors:
Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque
Concept Development:
Jonathan Lacocque, Clara Lehmann,
Elena Chudoba, David Reyes
Design Director:
Ryan Butterworth
Art Director:
Elena Chudoba
Ryan Butterworth
Art Direction & Illustration:
Haewon Shin
Animation:
Latham Arnott
Ryan Butterworth
Coupe Studios/Nova Nimbus
Sound Design & Mix:
Sarah Krohn
Narration:
Thandi (TL) Murray
2023 Titles
SXSW
The titles celebrate the SXSW mark through abstract 3D lettering and include multiple Easter eggs for films from the prior year like, a plush rainbow, a black snake, googly eyes, an astronaut, and a reference to an Austin, TX landmark. These opening titles played before every screening at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival. We have loved working with SXSW since 2018!
2023 Titles
SXSW
The titles celebrate the SXSW mark through abstract 3D lettering and include multiple Easter eggs for films from the prior year like, a plush rainbow, a black snake, googly eyes, an astronaut, and a reference to an Austin, TX landmark. These opening titles played before every screening at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival. We have loved working with SXSW since 2018!
2023 Titles
SXSW
The titles celebrate the SXSW mark through abstract 3D lettering and include multiple Easter eggs for films from the prior year like, a plush rainbow, a black snake, googly eyes, an astronaut, and a reference to an Austin, TX landmark. These opening titles played before every screening at the 2023 SXSW Film & TV Festival. We have loved working with SXSW since 2018!
Behind the Shield
Behind the Shield
Behind the Shield
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
Credits
Credits
Credits
Creative:
Coat of Arms
Creative Directors + Producers:
Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque
Design Director:
Ryan Butterworth
Grace Lawson
Designers + Animators:
Chris Ray Moberg, Mohammed Basil, Peiqing Lu, Ryan Butterworth, Steve Savalle, Wendy Eduarte
Music + Sound:
Anthony Parson
Creative:
Coat of Arms
Creative Directors + Producers:
Clara Lehmann and Jonathan Lacocque
Design Director:
Ryan Butterworth
Grace Lawson
Designers + Animators:
Chris Ray Moberg, Mohammed Basil, Peiqing Lu, Ryan Butterworth, Steve Savalle, Wendy Eduarte
Music + Sound:
Anthony Parson
2022 Titles
SXSW
Our friends at SXSW invited us to create the opening title sequence for the 2022 Film Festival. It’s our fourth year collaborating together. This time we wanted to build an anthology of different visual styles to speak to the diversity of genre and film that play at the festival. There are 14 easter eggs hidden throughout the titles. Can you spot them all?
2022 Titles
SXSW
Our friends at SXSW invited us to create the opening title sequence for the 2022 Film Festival. It’s our fourth year collaborating together. This time we wanted to build an anthology of different visual styles to speak to the diversity of genre and film that play at the festival. There are 14 easter eggs hidden throughout the titles. Can you spot them all?
2022 Titles
SXSW
Our friends at SXSW invited us to create the opening title sequence for the 2022 Film Festival. It’s our fourth year collaborating together. This time we wanted to build an anthology of different visual styles to speak to the diversity of genre and film that play at the festival. There are 14 easter eggs hidden throughout the titles. Can you spot them all?
Behind the Shield
Behind the Shield
Behind the Shield
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
With open hearts and a lens focused on education, we share these project files and details with you, our community, so that you may glean from them something inspirational.
Or tell us how we could have done it more efficiently! We hope our project files may help you in your pursuit of design, animation, and art; but we ask that you respect the artist in these files. In the brush strokes, in the layers of texture, and in each keyframe, sits a person who labored and agonized over their art. So, please use these for educational purposes and steal only the wisdom behind them not the content or ingredients.
Please. Thank you. And godspeed.
Credits
Credits
Credits
SXSW VP, Director of Film:
Janet Pierson
SXSW Project Lead:
Gabe Van Amburgh
Creative Direction:
Clara Lehmann & Jonathan Lacocque
Design Direction:
Ryan Butterworth
Editor:
Jonathan Lacocque
Design & Animation by Section:
1. Opening
Design:
Nuria Boj
Animation:
Mantas Gr
2. Tunnel
Nidia Dias
3. Scissor Carnival
Robert Kaniszewski
Design & Animation:
Florian DKS
Additional Design & Animation:
Anthony Palermo
5. Space:
Ricardo Nilsson
6. Shhhh
Terence Ginja-Martinho
7. The Rubble
Ryan Butterworth
8. Horse Head
Ryan Butterworth
9. Dance Party
Klimpa // Max Moertl & Robert Loebel
Original Music:
Matt Stanfield
Sound Design & Mix
Jenna Coyle
SXSW VP, Director of Film:
Janet Pierson
SXSW Project Lead:
Gabe Van Amburgh
Creative Direction:
Clara Lehmann & Jonathan Lacocque
Design Direction:
Ryan Butterworth
Editor:
Jonathan Lacocque
Design & Animation by Section:
1. Opening
Design:
Nuria Boj
Animation:
Mantas Gr
2. Tunnel
Nidia Dias
3. Scissor Carnival
Robert Kaniszewski
Design & Animation:
Florian DKS
Additional Design & Animation:
Anthony Palermo
5. Space:
Ricardo Nilsson
6. Shhhh
Terence Ginja-Martinho
7. The Rubble
Ryan Butterworth
8. Horse Head
Ryan Butterworth
9. Dance Party
Klimpa // Max Moertl & Robert Loebel
Original Music:
Matt Stanfield
Sound Design & Mix
Jenna Coyle
2019 Titles
SXSW
This includes all four intro title sequences we created for SXSW 2019: Narratives, Midnighters, Documentaries, and Shorts.
Can you spot all the SXSW Premiered film easter eggs?
2019 Titles
SXSW
This includes all four intro title sequences we created for SXSW 2019: Narratives, Midnighters, Documentaries, and Shorts.
Can you spot all the SXSW Premiered film easter eggs?
2019 Titles
SXSW
This includes all four intro title sequences we created for SXSW 2019: Narratives, Midnighters, Documentaries, and Shorts.
Can you spot all the SXSW Premiered film easter eggs?
Credits
Credits
Credits
Client Lead:
Gabe Van Amburgh
Creative Post by
Coat of Arms
Direction/Producing by
Clara Lehmann & Jonathan Lacocque
Design & Animation by
Joe Sparkes & Linn Fritz
Client Lead:
Gabe Van Amburgh
Creative Post by
Coat of Arms
Direction/Producing by
Clara Lehmann & Jonathan Lacocque
Design & Animation by
Joe Sparkes & Linn Fritz
Campbell Hartley, James Hobbs, John Long, Knifeson Yu, Ricardo Nilsson, & Ryan Butterworth
Music by
Ambrose Yu (Narratives), Wesley Slover (Midnighters), Ho-Ling Tang (Documentaries), & Chris Bartels (Shorts).
Sound Design & Mix by
Jerry Walterick
Special Thanks to
Janet Pierson, Blake Kammerdiener and the whole SX team.
Campbell Hartley, James Hobbs, John Long, Knifeson Yu, Ricardo Nilsson, & Ryan Butterworth
Music by
Ambrose Yu (Narratives), Wesley Slover (Midnighters), Ho-Ling Tang (Documentaries), & Chris Bartels (Shorts).
Sound Design & Mix by
Jerry Walterick
Special Thanks to
Janet Pierson, Blake Kammerdiener and the whole SX team.
2018 Titles
SXSW
SXSW celebrated 25 years of their film festival and asked Coat of Arms to create a special title sequence to celebrate the occasion. Featuring 26 different short films from prior years, we designed 26 unique title sequences with clever animated illustrations as an homage to each short film and meant to engage festival attendees. Armed with a fantastic team of artists and an artistically collaborative and supportive client, we are thankful for the opportunity to be a part of one of our favorite festivals. Enjoy the show!
2018 Titles
SXSW
SXSW celebrated 25 years of their film festival and asked Coat of Arms to create a special title sequence to celebrate the occasion. Featuring 26 different short films from prior years, we designed 26 unique title sequences with clever animated illustrations as an homage to each short film and meant to engage festival attendees. Armed with a fantastic team of artists and an artistically collaborative and supportive client, we are thankful for the opportunity to be a part of one of our favorite festivals. Enjoy the show!
2018 Titles
SXSW
SXSW celebrated 25 years of their film festival and asked Coat of Arms to create a special title sequence to celebrate the occasion. Featuring 26 different short films from prior years, we designed 26 unique title sequences with clever animated illustrations as an homage to each short film and meant to engage festival attendees. Armed with a fantastic team of artists and an artistically collaborative and supportive client, we are thankful for the opportunity to be a part of one of our favorite festivals. Enjoy the show!
Credits
Credits
Credits
SXSW team:
Gabe Van Amburgh,
Blake Kammerdiener, Kaitlin Piraro
Creative Post by
Coat of Arms
Creative Direction & Producing:
Clara Lehmann & Jonathan Lacocque
Design/Illustration:
Brian Michael Gossett
Design/Lead Animation:
John Long
Illustration/Animation:
Whitney Lam
SXSW team:
Gabe Van Amburgh,
Blake Kammerdiener, Kaitlin Piraro
Creative Post by
Coat of Arms
Creative Direction & Producing:
Clara Lehmann & Jonathan Lacocque
Design/Illustration:
Brian Michael Gossett
Design/Lead Animation:
John Long
Illustration/Animation:
Whitney Lam
Julia Iverson & Ricardo Nilsson
Style Exploration:
Naomi Bensen
Edit:
Jonathan Lacocque
Sound Design & Mix:
Sarah Krohn
DCP:
Garrett Sergeant & SimpleDCP
Music:
Drums & Tines Pt. 2
from “The Other Side of Time”
by Quin Kirchner
Ryan Butterworth
Art Direction & Illustration:
Haewon Shin
Animation:
Latham Arnott
Ryan Butterworth
Coupe Studios/Nova Nimbus
Sound Design & Mix:
Sarah Krohn
