Stargate Universe opening credits (Tribute)

Ever since SGU started, up to the announcement of it's cancellation on SyFy, I have wanted to create an opening credits sequence for the series, much like the SG-1 and Atlantis series.

There were so many amazing shots to choose from and only so much time to showcase each character. I chose the most predominate characters and featured them in the opening.

The music is the actual theme song to the show, composed by Dominik Hauser.

So sad to see the franchise go... I'm hoping for a film to continue this crazy adventure with the Destiny! :D

-Kyle

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• kyle
• culver
• stargate
• universe
• opening
• credits
• destiny
• space
• syfy
• scifi
• portal
• wormhole
• action
• Dominik
• Hauser

[EvilDogMedia]

This is awesome! Nice work! I'm a Premiere Pro enthusiast myself. Just can't get to grips with AE. :-)

[akaneo17]

@EvilDogMedia Thanks! I really appreciate that! AE is pretty simple once you get a hold on layers and mapping the layers. it can get pretty crazy... rendering too. omg, don't even get me started. lol. Cs5 does a really good job with that though. love it.

[theblackwidower]

Best damn SGU opening I've seen yet!!!

[akaneo17]

@theblackwidower haha, thanks! :) i'm glad you like it

[AndrewDeLong]

@akaneo17 Communication might be difficult, seeing as my partner knows nothing of the series, and we have just under a week to finish this thing. Thankfully, I kind of know the series inside and out, have a decent *eh-hem* "source for episodes" and have a strong idea of the direction I want to go with it. Of course, our (his) contingency plan, should the SGU title not work out, is to do an opening for "The Office." Needless to say, I'm going to make sure things work out for this. ;)

[akaneo17]

@AndrewDeLong Oh, yea, I recognized that! Such a good song... Oooo, student partners... lol. Be sure to play nice and communicate clearly. haha. I've learned communication is key when working with others in editing. It's hard to explain something that deals with images..

For me, I spent most of my time looking for shots that fit. I watched every ep. taking notes on where the good shots were. Then took those notes to post. I did it all in my spare time over the course of 8 months.

[AndrewDeLong]

@akaneo17 And it shows. What you did actually looks like there was effort put into it. What I'm doing is a project that has less than a week before it's "due" and I still have to run it by my project "partner" before I can even finalize it.

Maybe, when I have a crap load of free time, I'll redo it all. Still, I'm kinda addicted to that Mumford & Sons song. I believe it was used in Ep 1, season 2, at the end of the show. Kinda works better there. LOL!

[akaneo17]

@AndrewDeLong I checked it out. Its got a nice flow going. I see what you're saying. I tried to keep the "Stargate" element as it was in the 2 previous series. The musical theme for SGU was slightly less in excitement, but it still had that unique sci-fi pop to it. I had to use it! It's the theme! lol. I took the cast list off wikipedia for the order, n tried to capture each character's personality in each shot. I also studied the previous openings for SG-1 and SGA. It took a lot of time.

[AndrewDeLong]

@akaneo17 It's definitely inspiring, that's for certain. I'm actually doing one of these for a college project right now, and I'll be honest, i yours is a complete 180 from the style I decided to go with. You focused on the action/adventurous elements of the series, I decided to go for the more dramatic portion. So far, yours is easily better than anything I've been able to drum up. In fact, I'd say it is, both artistically and conceptually, one of the better fan made openings on youtube.

[akaneo17]

@AndrewDeLong

1. Yea, I definitely could have spiffed it up a bit in AE, but I had been working on it for so long I didn't feel like going through all that.. hah

2. Well, not everybody uses the default settings in their computer system. ;) Almost every new product makes their own font. check out dafont. com or urbanfonts. com - I get a lot of great fonts there made by tons of people. I use a few of them for my own projects. Thanks for the compliments! I love doing this type of creative work.