OFFF Porto 2015 (2015)

There is a brightness in all things, but particularly in bif’s opening title sequence for OFFF Festival 2015, held in Porto, Portugal.



Designers Jules Janaud and Fabrice Le Nezet, otherwise known as bif, were tasked with creating the festival’s main titles and preparing an audience of hundreds for two days of inspirational talks about animation, illustration, and design. As was the case with their previous festival titles work for Playgrounds Fest 2014, the duo let their sense of play and wonder guide them and infuse the work. Paired with music by Echolab and effects support from Mill+, the result is both gritty and light, downtrodden and uplifting. The sun goes down and the figures radiate their colour, dancing away the darkness.

A conversation with Designers FABRICE LE NEZET and JULES JANAUD of the directing collective bif.

The last time we chatted was for your work on Playgrounds Fest 2014. What has bif been up to since then?

Jules: Playgrounds was a starting point to a rich and creative year. It was the beginning of some sort of a “bif style”.

Fabrice: We had a pretty busy year working on several projects: commercials and music videos. We were happy and proud to be alongside the best titles of 2014.

Jules: We love title sequences, being recognized for it by experts means a…

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