Portrait of a lady on fire Title Sequence
Personal Project  |  0'45"   |  1920*1080   |  2021
Design   |  Animation

‘’ Your presence was made up of fleeting moments that may lack truth.’’ said Marianne.

The flowers wither. The flame go out.The paintings be done...Everything come to an end eventually.So was the forbidden relationship.It was those fleeting moments that compose into reminiscence and lasts forever.


Vanitas is a common art genre in 17th century.With iconic visual elements fabrics,rocks,withered flowers.
The spirit of Vanitas,all is vanity,in line with the fleeting moments concept.Everything comes to an end.There are multiple meaningful gestures in the movie.Subtle.Smooth.Tender.With the gestures covered beneath veils & fabrics,creating a mysterious mood which the truth yet to be uncovered.

Before starting the movie, viewers receive subtle clue from the title sequence without knowing what the truth would be.However,by re watching ,viewers eventually discover the metaphors ,projecting the movie plot on each frame.


虛空派是流行用十七世紀的藝術派別，主要表達類似萬物皆空的概念，因此有許多骷髏、枯萎的花等等物件作為終究死亡的象徵。視覺風格與電影背景、元素接近，也十分吻合欲切入此電影的觀點，一切終究結束，唯有虛無飄渺的每個瞬間構成永久回憶。電影中有許多手勢和姿勢，尤其在進行肖像畫的時候，帶給人微妙、柔和、溫柔的感受。採用許多被紗布蓋住的構圖，建立神秘和待發掘真相的氛圍。片頭作為電影與真實世界的橋樑，觀影前的感受其實和虛無縹緲未知真相的情境類似，期待觀者在看完電影，回頭看片頭能發掘一些彩蛋與隱喻。個人很喜歡懷錶墜落與書本的那張構圖，暗示著電影中的神話主軸，墜入無底深淵只為求見愛人最後一面。

Design & Animation . @bb_hlw
Instructor . @mak.anais
Music . https://youtu.be/kGOWcyAaBwg

A piece from title sequence workshop.
So honored to be lectured and instructed by Anais Mak from Gobelins.
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