Paul Donnellon

Early lifePaul Donnellon is an Irish director and animator based in London.

He began his career directing music videos and TV commercials and has won awards in both these areas alongside awards for his short animated films and illustrations.

VooDooDogIn 2002 he founded his own animation studio, which is currently an award winning Emmy nominated studio. He does work through this studio and worked on projects such as Nanny McPhee and Smokin’ Aces.

He is most famous for his title sequences for:Nanny McPhee, Smokin Aces (2006) and The life and death of Peter Sellers (2004).

He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his title sequence for The life and death of Peter sellers, but only came as a runner up.

Smokin Aces (2006)http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/smokin-aces/ The bright and high contrast colours used in this title sequence sends the audience back to the 60’s and 70’s. The music used and the imagery gives the film an almost retro like feel. Much like most of his previous work, the sequence takes on an animated style. It is inspired by the work of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance kid.The text used is very simple and straightforward, with its main purpose just being to portray the cast and crew member’s names. The title of the film itself comes right at the end of the sequence and is considerably bigger than the rest of the text used.

Nanny McPhee http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0011-Nanny_McPhee "Nanny McPhee is a colorful kids movie. The director, Kirk Jones, saw our Peter Sellers title sequence and asked us to pitch on his opening credits.”His title sequence for Nanny McPhee took on yet another animated style, which is very much his preferred style and has been over his career. The titles themselves take on a very childlike approach, with lots of animated characters and child friendly special effects being used to suit the genre of the film as a whole.