Quite a nice title sequence design using a pop-up book design and stop motion. Jamie Caliri shot with both the Canon 40D and the Nikon D300, used Dragon Stop Motion to capture the 3K files and did a bit of multi pass and multi exposure shooting composited in After Effects.

check it out:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/04/06/united-states-of-tara/

Title Director: Jamie Caliri
Animation: Anthony Scott
Illustration: Alex Juhasz
Art Department Lead: Morgan Hay
Art Department Assistant: Yoriko Murakami
Executive Producer: Mark Medernach
Line Producer: Daniel Ridgers
Production Assistants: Amanda Belden Scharnberg, Ashley Calhoun, Richie McCord
Production Company (titles): DUCK
Client: Showtime

Jamie Caliri’s opening titles for “United States of Tara” feature a host of frighteningly good characters mostly hosted by the brilliant Toni Collette’s Tara, herself a Kansasian mother and artist suffering from dissociative identity disorder and related memory suppression.

Tara’s alters; “T,” a temperamental teenage tart, Alice, a strong (and strongly repressed?) 50’s housewife, and Buck, the brawling, chain smoking, self-proclaimed war vet all pop up for reasons unknown. At the end of the sequence Tara emerges in ascension as it is she who shelters her alters. And she is derailed. And she is saved.