HBO 2017 & 1983 Logo Opens - "BTS" Behind The Scenes - Home Box Office

HBO 2017 Feature Presentation Open:
This project is a reimagined version of the iconic 1980's HBO Feature Presentation show open. Imaginary Forces (www.imaginaryforces.com/) combined live action, CG, and a fully orchestrated new musical arrangement to create an HBO Feature Presentation for a more modern audience.
Behind the scenes of the making of the 2017 version: • Behind the Scenes of t...
Creative Director: Dan Gregoras (www.dgreg.com/)
Executive Producer: Jon Hassell
Head of Production: Aleen Kim
Producer: Lisa Muñoz
Designers: Aaron Maurer (aaronmaurer.com/), Ben Zylberman (benzylberman.com)
VFX Supervisor: Jeremy Cox (www.jeremycox.com/)
CG Lead: Chris Vincola (chrisvincola.com/)
3D Modelers: Roger An, Muzi Lee, Hannah Sung
3D Animation / Tracking Artist: Joerg Liebold (www.jliebold.com/)
Lighting and Texture Artists: Cody Chen, Ken Lee, Chris Vincola, Roger An
Compositors: Tamir Sapir, Manu Gaulot, Ken Lee, Chris Vincola, Ari Reisner
Editor: Rachel Ambelang
Coordinator: Meredith Engstrom
Music Composition: Man Made Music (www.manmademusic.com/)
Line Producer: Adam Lawson
Directors of Photography: Dallas Sterling (dallassterling.com/), Ki S. Hwang (www.kishwang.com/)
HBO Head of Marketing: Chris Spadaccini
HBO VP Brand Marketing: Robert Priday
HBO Creative Director: Alyson Bradshaw
HBO Art Directors: Evan Beier, Gigi Nicolas
HBO 1983 Feature Presentation Open:
"By 1983, premium cable television was still a relatively new concept, and industry leader HBO wanted to distinguish itself from plain old ordinary network TV. This wasn’t just another channel; it was an “entertainment center.” It was special. One way HBO communicated that message was through its logo and on-air bumpers. In 1983, HBO began its feature presentations with an incredibly elaborate, minute-long introductory sequence still fondly remembered by a generation of cable TV subscribers. In a cozy apartment, a man and his wife settle in for a night of HBO. The camera then pans away from their window and soars over the city in which they live, swooping through the streets like a bird. It continues through the suburbs and the country toward the mountains, at which point it tilts upward toward the night sky. A giant, metallic HBO-shaped spaceship comes into view then comes into view. Inside the ship, the “O” is filled with dazzling, swirling colors. At last, a title appears: HBO Theatre. Home Box Office was so proud of this introduction that its creation was documented in a fascinating, 10-minute documentary by Scott Morris.
The introduction was the work of New York’s Liberty Studios. It was decided that Liberty president Anthony Lover’s original concept would not work with a real city, so a miniature one was built. It took a team of six craftsmen a total of three months to construct the dozens of highly detailed little buildings, each one individually lit, in HBO’s ersatz city, not to mention the vehicles and model people, including some bums and hookers. And that was just one aspect of the process. A 65-piece orchestra played the score. Live actors were hired for the apartment scene. A giant cyclotronic backdrop simulated dusk. The HBO logo itself was forged out of brass and then chrome plated. The star field was the result of frame-by-frame animation. And those swirling colors inside the O? That involved fiber optics, plus various “motors and gears and pulleys.” Hopefully, the HBO subscribers of 1983 took the time to appreciate this intro and didn’t use that last minute as a chance to use the bathroom or grab a snack before the movie." ~ www.avclub.com/
A Closer Look: Inside HBO's City, HBO Behind The Scenes
A Production of Scott Morris Films, New York City
Seen in the video:
Anthony Lover - President, Liberty Studios
James E. Kowalski - Director of Special Effects Models
David Bruce - Special Effects
Ferdinand Jay Smith III - Composer
Reid Paul - Animator and Cameraman (stargatestudios.net/sg/reid-paul/)
Joe Scherer - Cameraman
Scott Morris - Producer / Director
Alexander Marshall - Writer / Narrator
Jonathan L. Segal - "Illusions" and additional music composed and performed
William Bilowit / Jacek Laskus - Lighting Assistants
Barbara A. Becker - Sound Recording
©1982 Home Box Office, Inc.
(www.hbo.com/)
Posted for entertainment and educational purposes only.
No copyrights infringed. All works property of the company listed above. Please do not reproduce without their expressed written consent.
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KZbin End Screen Music Credit:
Song: Rain of Feelings
Artist: Weond & Cag
Music provided by Top Shelf Sounds: tinyurl.com/hz9jzxm
Official Sound Cloud: / weond

[@saabaru007]

I like how they incorporated the 1983 rotating HBO logo into one of the TV screens of the 2017 intro. I still think the 1983 intro is still the best.

[@randyval2]

Yesss!

[@lynnymachermann4620]

The 1983 model theme was the ultimate theme for hbo. Thanks for posting this.

[@MrMitchelljung]

HBO needs to come up with a throwback channel and bring back the 1983 intro and the old laser intro

[@MonteD1]

I remember seeing the "how it was made" portion of this sometime in the 80s. It was a special event the whole family watched. I'm glad i was able to find it again on KZbin.

[@davobard]

1983 version is my favorite one ever.

[@vestel777]

In fact I think EVERY HBO & Cinemax Openings should ALL be Remastered in 4K with a Dolby ATMOS Surround Sound Audio Track.

[@CaptinNabil7]

Who'd have thought an 80's space opening for HBO, done entirely out of models, from the city filmed in entirely in Stop Motion, to the HBO logo, even though it looks like CGI, but is actually a hand made model, and those 80's laser effects, could be a huge legacy to HBO, in which their CGI successors to that intro, which includes both 1999 intro and the 2017 intro, would replicate and pay homage to it, as well as include the original 80's intro in the new intro.

[@Anthony-knows-little]

two thumbs up for the world''s LONGEST sentence.

[@keepinmeuppodcast76]

Amazing how much better the physical models in the 83 version look as opposed to the CGI.

[@erikpridemore3174]

HBO and Cinemax and their combo of pay TV channels are now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, and when our Arizona viewers were paying for HBO on their cable TV systems providers, they were familiar with the HBO Feature Presentation, and its theme song and its "HBO in Space" 1982 title sequence which aired for 15 years until 1997. And we sure loved our favorite one, as ever will be.

[@238cmh]

The 1983 version is the best. Love watching it even after all these years.

[@DS-hs7fd]

I like the 1983 version better.😊

[@MattLeger]

I wonder how many of the dozens of people who worked to make this TV magic happen are still around in 2024? Even if they aren't, their work lives on as testimony to their hard work and talent.

[@sunnchilde]

1983 kicks 2017s ass, every time.

[@Pacho_1581]

This is Awesome!!

[@RenTheGreat]

So this is where the Avengers theme takes its inspiration...

[@TheLoganStudiosCo.]

No! It wasn't.

[@poppypinktv]

It does sound like it 🤩

[@kevin5866]

2017 sounds like that theme from Rocky

[@trafosoft]

Excelente !!

[@tontoyoderjr4532]

HBO confirmed that 2017 is the new 1983

[@cowmissing]

I'll take it! Thanks, Tonto.

[@Palmy0724]

I AGREE!

[@marty3888]

It's not. Nice try, but they should just play the 1983 version.

[@TheFerbguy]

They'd have to do a log of restoration to the '83 and then crop it for HD TVs

[@SmallPersonRoo]

The Ferbguy it’s not that hard. They have all 137 episodes of the 1977 CHiPs remastered so well that it looks like it was filmed today

[@cromagprophet]

6:14 Lights Turn On

[@luciusdash9810]

Please 4K Version 1983 Remastred

[@Hi-ix5bb]

Impossible because it's shot in tape

[@bullwrinkle29studiosshow37]

The 1983 model is bro if he back as a newer beautiful intro but in my opinion 1983s version kicks ass than the 2017 and you gotta admit that 1983 one is still the original but the 2017 one is rebooted but kinda good.

[@SoundBlackRecordings]

Wow I can't believe all that was done by hand.

[@xpez9694]

@ 07:12 this is where their head was at. "hookers and bums" LOL... they could have put in any kind of easter eggs..

[@nmhh8733]

HBO!

[@roshandameal6895]

Yes I prefer

[@tracydiscenza46]

Old HBO vs New HBO

[@onesimpleaccess6969]

You didn't explain how they made the 2017 version.

[@cowmissing]

Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGeaonxjodB_ZpI

[@marty3888]

Probably because there was nothing to it. All key strokes.

[@vestel777]

To bad the 1983 Opening hasn’t been Remastered in 4K with a Dolby ATMOS Surround Sound Audio Track. Same thing with the 1985-88 Cinemax Opening as well. Remaster those Cinemax Openings in 4K with a Dolby ATMOS Surround Sound Audio Track.

[@anngulliver5964]

I prefer the 1983 version to the 2017 version.

[@swordchicken5629]

Ann Gulliver 2017 has the 1983.

[@netsurferx1]

Don't we all!

[@carlosrenteria4232]

super

[@btr3k]

Anyone notice... 11:10 guy sits down with a woman... 0:54 now they have kids! Guess it worked out for them.

[@Nickwilde2295]

HBO max

[@shanejones8884]

I still prefer the 1982 version over the 2017 version... But the 2017 version is better than the fucking laziness they have done since 2003.

[@shanejones8884]

The 1982 version needs to be unretired... Then HBO would actually be worth the $20 a month.

[@moramento22]

It could have follow suit of many of the movies nowadays and be remade