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    Mill+ Creates Animated Opening Titles for Netflix’s “Fearless”

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    Mill+ has collaborated with 25/7 Productions and director Michael John Warren on the striking opening titles for Fearless. The new Netflix series documents Brazilian bull riding culture, and the grueling journey of riders from Sao Paulo to championships in Las Vegas. 

    The Mill+ team crafted opening titles that play a pivotal role in introducing viewers to the characters. Each scene works as a vignette, introducing a unique character’s personality and story using a distinctive, hand-painted look.

    Mill+ art director Helen Hsu explained, “We used oil paintings as an initial influence to create a tactile effect. The concept started with looser brush strokes but gradually got more refined to add realism and purpose.  We wanted the titles to look and feel like a painting, while using 3D software to achieve the look. To avoid them looking too ‘3D’ we had to repaint the frames multiple times.”

    Mill+ creative director Clarice Chin added, “The quality of the style was very important. The titles had to evoke meaning because of the very emotional, intense stories that are being told. Fearless is a documentary series with a lot of heart in it and it was crucial that we visualize that.”

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    Client Netflix/”Fearless” Production 25/7 Productions John Warren, director; Andrew Fried, David Broome, John Henion, Frank Salinas, Yong Yam, executive producer. VFX & Design The Mill Luke Colson, exec producer; Elizabeth Newman, head of production, Mill+; Sumer Zuberi, producer; Anica Douglass, production coordinator; Clarice Chin, creative director; Helen Hsu, art director; Justin Demetrician, animation lead; Justin Demetrician, Tim Devlin, Viraj Ajmeri, animation; Alan Chen, Amy Graham, Helen Hsu, design. Color The Mill Adam Scott, colorist; Thatcher Peterson, exec producer, color; Diane Valera, color producer.

    Media Type:Opening Credits
    ScreenWork Categories:Title Sequence
    Video Tags:FearlessMill+NetflixThe Mill



    Monster Hunters Wanted! Director Zac Ella, Ad Agency CALLEN Team On High-Chaos Recruitment Campaign For Supercell’s mo.co Game

    Tuesday, July 15, 2025

    Exploding miniature cities. Cel-animated fists through portals. Real martial arts choreography. And a man eating 12 hot dogs without blinking. mo.co – the new campaign for Supercell’s latest IP – is a riot of craft, chaos, and gaming absurdity, directed by Agile/JOJX’s Zac Ella in partnership with ad agency CALLEN.

    The campaign centers on three POV-style short films – Luna, Manny, and Jax – each styled as a startup pitch from inside the mo.co universe. Visually and tonally distinct, each piece channels the personality of its protagonist, from glitchy, live-edited montages to spoof TED Talks and VHS-filtered action reels.

    Shot primarily in-camera, the films feature live stunts, pyrotechnics, hand-built miniature sets, model cities, and prosthetic limbs. One actor was even scanned into the game engine to create a seamless virtual double. Three VFX studios worked across the project, helping embed the films with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Easter eggs – from hot dog power-ups to color-coded explosions debated over two weeks.

    “It’s dense, silly, and layered on purpose,” Ella says. “The goal was to make the films fun on the first watch – and even funnier on the fifth. It’s a fever dream, crafted frame by frame. The worlds had to feel lived-in and real, even though they’re totally surreal. Even the monsters got manicures. We went absurdly deep on the small stuff – because fans notice everything.”

    Created in close collaboration with Supercell’s lore team, the campaign plays like a lovingly unhinged expansion of the game’s universe—one that exploded into fan feeds after an early leak stirred online buzz ahead of launch.

    “Luna, Jax, and Manny are 20-year-old monster-hunting startup founders and they... Read More

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