Layered and Tactile
With a found object aesthetic, these projects include archival paper media and video media emulation.
Keep Sweet Pray & Obey
Docuseries Exploratory
From the POV of ex-pats from Warren Jeff’s fundamentalist FLDS sect, this Netflix docuseries details Warren’s rise to power and systemic abuse of parishioners. Following this exploratory, Union created several shots and designed a title toolkit for the show. These exploratory frames and animations were conversation starters early in the design exploratory phase of production. Not all of these ideas survived the edit room and made it into the show.
Credits
Client:
Netflix, Ark Media
Director:
Rachel Dretzin
Artists:
Chris Bialkowski, Maria Fabrizio, Damian Atkinson, Sean Vickery, Nicole Cortese
Keep Sweet Pray & Obey
Docuseries Final Renders
Following our initial exploratory, these shots made it into the final series.
Credits
Client:
Netflix, Ark Media
Director:
Rachel Dretzin
Artists:
Chris Bialkowski, Maria Fabrizio, Damian Atkinson, Sean Vickery, Nicole Cortese
Series Reel
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More stuff:
A larger selection of stills from the final shots in the series
Charlottesville
Docuseries Exploratory
Tasked to explore a “murder board” aesthetic for a documentary film, we created the following frames. In addition to the archival collage, we explored other aspects of the film.
Credits
Artists:
Chris Bialkowski
The Black Church
Docuseries Exploratory
Design and animation exploratory for the PBS docuseries “The Black Church”–including archival reproduction, graphic sequences, and illustration.
Credits
Client:
PBS, McGee Media
Artists:
Chris Bialkowski, Tim Haldeen, Will Robertson
More Still Frames:
A much larger selection of exploratory frames
The Black Church
Docuseries Final Renders
Following our initial exploratory, these shots made it into the final series.
Credits
Client:
PBS, McGee Media
Artists:
Chris Bialkowski, Junsik Na, Damian Atkinson, Sean Vickery, Daniel Gibzburg, Tim Haldeen, Will Robertson
Who Killed Malcolm X
Docuseries Exploratory
In this first round of design exploratory, we are using archival media to build a graphic language for the series. We are heavily leaning into actual FBI document scans to create collaged images and titles for the series.
Credits
Client:
Netflix, Fusion TV, Ark Media
Directors:
Rachel Dretzin, Phil Bertelsen
Artists:
Chris Bialkowski, Jun Lee
More Still Frames:
A much larger selection of exploratory frames
The New Yorker Presents
Docuseries Main Title Sequence
Created for Amazon Prime’s “The New Yorker Presents,” this main title sequence was built out of popular magazine covers from various The New Yorker’s past. We picked our favorite art and then deconstructed them for animation–eventually putting it all back together as one seamless camera move.
Credits
Client:
Amazon Prime, Jigsaw Productions
Artists:
Chris Bialkowski, Jun Lee, Eric Dalimarta, Damian Atkinson
Main Title Sequence
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