This is an export from the main menu of "Made-Up," released by Riverbend Entertainment. The actual menu is a roughly 2-minute video loop. We used some diffusion and selective blurring to set apart the menu text from the images. (The menu selector overlay image is not shown.) All of the menus were optimized for 16:9 display (full screen on 16:9 screens, letterboxed on 4:3 televisions).

Note: The "Made-Up" menus pictured here in this portfolio differ from the menus blogged about earlier. After some testing, it was determined that the sharply contrasting letters, once compressed for DVD, induced too much noise in the image when played back on "normal" CRT televisions. In other words, "legal" NTSC broadcast video is not necessarily DVD-appropriate video. So we reduced the lettering contrast. This also meant that we had to redo the layout on many screens -- especially the chapter selections menus, where the softer lettering was overpowered by the chapter images' borders. In the end, I think we achieved a better overall result.