Robot Taekwon V — 45th Anniversary
Blu-ray Title Sequence
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An opening for the fans who waited 45 years — not a reinterpretation, but the texture of the original brought back.
The audience for this is long-time Taekwon V fans, so the direction was nostalgia rather than reinterpretation — not making it look new, but letting people meet that old Taekwon V again. It comprises one main title sequence plus an opening for each of the feature films, 15–30 seconds each.
The problem was the gap between 45-year-old source material and Blu-ray as a high-resolution medium. The original film could not be used as it stood.
What closed that gap was not my work but the CD's. Director Sangheon Han first carried out a large-scale upscale of the entire Taekwon V catalogue to Blu-ray quality, which made it possible to design directly from high-resolution sources while keeping their texture. The division of roles was clear: as the designer I deferred to the director, who is a genuine fan, and he deferred to the art director's judgement.
“It was a very peaceful project.”
How it was made
- 1
Reference & Consultation
Organised the original titles and the machine's reference art, separating the forms that had to be protected from the ones that could change.
- 2
Look Development
Took nostalgia rather than reinterpretation as the reference, and set out to preserve the texture and colour of the period as far as possible.
- 3
Setting the Rules
Locked the proportions of the machine to the original and established shared rules so the main title and the per-film openings read as one family.
- 4
Generation & Compositing
Built the part shots on top of the director's Blu-ray-grade upscale and arranged them along the rising line toward the logo.
- 5
Grade & Master
Matched colour and contrast to packaged-media reference and aligned the cut to the sound cues frame by frame.
Credits
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