Flashback

Although only lasting a minute, the introduction to Flashback set many standards to come where animations were concerned. Delphine Software proved that you didn’t need the latest technology nor a huge budget to set the scene of a game.
Featuring some of the most fluid pixel based animation known to date, the introduction to Flashback became incredibly iconic and often spoken about between gamers. So much so, it was one introduction you were happy to watch again and again, every time you booted up the game.

It's quite appropriate that my topic is one that was at the forefront of moving image at the time, although it was in gaming form they still had to think about title sequences and idents etc for the start of each game, and even the boot up of each different consloe. A later post will cover as many idents/intros to games and console boot-ups, hopefully gaining some inspiration as to how I could recreate this sucessfully using After Effects to fit in such a modern world of graphics.