The Gamers 2037

Opening title design

The Gamers 2037 opening titles were a finalist at the Australian Effects and Animation Festival (AEAF) 2020 - Opening Titles section.

The Gamers 2037 is an Australian television program for children, screened on 9Go! and TVNZ on demand. The series is set in a dystopian future where gaming is banned and three former friends must overcome their differences to beat an A.I. controlled puzzled-based Virtual and Augmented Reality Game (VAARG) or risk becoming trapped in the machine forever.

The design concept was to show the players being ‘installed’ in the digital world, where the players enter the virtual reality game inside the ‘VAARG’ computer. I used Plexus with Cinema 4D and the Trapcode plug-ins to create the main stylistic elements for both the opening titles and the loading sequences.