Obviously we’re no stranger to creating screen graphics in the Sci-Fi world, but this project allowed us to delve into the Sci-Fi comedy world. The storybeats have a different flow to that required of a more serious script, making it an interesting and fun change for the team. Working across all 8 episodes of this first season, we created graphics to complement the narrative, from providing a high-end, but playful, to low-tech and low-budget. Initially designing graphics we felt were fit for purpose, they evolved as the story developed and we realised pushing the aesthetic to be bigger and more flamboyant was a better direction.
Avenue 5
HBO’s new Sci-Fi comedy series, centered around perhaps the most luxurious and technically advanced spaceship on TV (on the surface, at least), required multiple screen graphics to help enhance the storytelling for Armando Iannucci's latest creation.
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Mission Control
The (Real) Bridge
“With the art department we found a great aesthetic that sat right in with the comedic nature of the show. Some areas, like mission control, did need to feel more technical, but still had elements of comedy embedded in them. It was fun to push the designs in this direction as you so often have to pull back from any messing around.”
Sam Keehan, Senior Motion Designer at Territory Studio
Screen Graphics
Concept Art
Working closely with Production designer Simon Bowles and their graphic designer Sam Moulsdale, our main output was concentrated upon the two bridges. [Spoilers ahead!] We had an overly aesthetically beautiful bridge, complete with glowing, beautiful elements, purely for show, as it is all fully viewable by the passengers and was a facade for the real bridge below deck. The real bridge is completely opposing in every way, with dirty floors, dark lighting and clunky and robust functionalities. Glitches and grunge would be visible throughout, showing that the ship is being run on a bit of a shoestring.
