'Sea of Dragons' is a personal project creating a fake title screen for a nonexistent TV show. I've always loved seeing animated TV titles in shows, and was particularly inspired by title credit animations such as those for Black Sails, Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, Westworld, and Game of Thrones.
This project in particular is inspired by The Last Kingdom, Vikings, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla and the period they're set in, with Viking and Saxon influences and imagery. All cover a fascinating period during the Viking Age with the Vikings spreading towards England and Ireland, and as a period I've always been interested in, I decided to lean into creating a fake show based on this intersection of Nordic myths and iconography, and the Anglo-Saxon/Christian iconography at the time.
This can be seen with images of the cross and Anglo-Saxon coinage, contrasted with Nordic runestones, weapons, and carvings. To maintain visual consistency and help emphasize this feel, the texturing for the assets is done primarily using wood and gold textures - creating a contrast between raw, rough-hewn natural elements and the polished, clean look of gold.
All the names included in the title credits are real actors, artists, and producers in the industry- they have no association with this fake TV show and are simply people whose work and experience in the industry I have come to respect.
Modeling and sculpting for these assets has been done in Maya, C4D, and ZBrush, with texturing and rendering done in C4D and Redshift. Final compositing and editing was done in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro.
All credits for the music go to Jesper Kyd, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Ubisoft.
