Peter Anderson: Hi, my name is Peter Anderson. I'm from Peter Anderson Studio. And we created the title sequence to Good Omens Season Two. So, we begin our journey with our angel and our demon starting again, climbing back from this enormous ending from Season One. We experiment and we don't stop experimenting.
So, you know, we built fire out of paper as a stop free emotion.
You know, our clouds are cotton wool. It's not just clever, big CGI.
It's experimenting with other ways in which we can make the world of Good Omens feel fresh and original.
And lots of the procession are the actual costumes that were in the drama.
A lot of them worn by me and other members of the Peter Anderson studio on a travelator in a green screen. Where we could almost all of the faces of our characters, even though they're dressed in costume, and build up the different roles played within the drama, their faces are built from our angel or our demon.
The crossover happens straight away with the live action. We've got live action figures that straightaway have got two-dimensional heads. But we mess with them. We give them mohicans, we cut up their faces to make them look like our various characters.
And like season one, we're building a world. We're building the universe. We playfully add storytelling elements that really are reflective of Neil's storytelling. We do our best to push and play with what animation can be...
To add 3D elements, 2D elements,
to live action elements, to really low-fly animation elements. You know, we're not just hinting and teasing at things with these tiles. We're obsessing over every part of the storytelling.
Really like the titles for the new season of True Detective by Peter Anderson Studio; bold to omit True Detective’s classic double exposure aesthetic but it does signify a certain “newness” (also love the Lost Highway-esque device)
I was watching Good Omens, as you do, and in the title sequence, I spotted a familiar and distinctive red sash.
The messy hair, sore on the side of the cheek/chin, sash... that's Beelzebub.
Pixelated because I'm using photos of my laptop screen. Sorry.
I'd heard somewhere that all the figures following Crowley and Aziraphale were David and Michael with different hair, but that's Lord Beelzebub. Whose actress change is acknowledged in the sequence itself with a grave.
So I watched the title sequence X-Ray with that in mind, and found the line "Where we could, almost all of the faces of our characters, even though they're dressed in costume, and build up the different roles played within the drama, their faces are built from our angel or our demon."
What I heard wasn't wrong, all the title sequence characters are built of David and Michael's faces, but I was also correct about spotting Beelzebub. The characters are in the title sequence. Furthermore, they build up the different roles played within the drama (in the title sequence). That is, there's information about the content of the episodes to be gleaned from the title sequence.
And oh, but there is.
"You know, we're not just hinting and teasing at things with these titles," says the X-Ray.
The title sequence itself contains the Clue and the answer to the Jim mystery. It also suggests the Final Fifteen.