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The main-on-end credits for the second season of the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and The Olympians finds Imaginary Forces CDs Karin Fong and Tosh Kodama evolving season one’s Art Deco theme into a richly textured maritime mosaic.
Karin Fong and Tosh Kodama: “Jon and Dan, the showrunners, gave us access to the show’s visuals, then encouraged us to figure out a way of reinterpreting them. For instance, in the show there are these giants. But in our sequence, they’re depicted as islands. So it’s not literal, and maybe even provokes more curiosity.”
Animator Henry Chang: “We wanted the piece to feel like an ancient artifact, something carved, heavy, and timeless – but with thousands of moving layers, a static stone texture wasn’t enough. Instead of relying on traditional compositing, we simulated the surface using normal maps and custom 3D shaders.
“We wanted the piece to feel like an ancient artifact, something carved, heavy, and timeless.”
“This approach transformed the artwork from a flat image into a reactive canvas, allowing light to rake across virtual grooves in the stone. As the illumination shifts, the surface comes alive, unifying the complex animation into a single, dramatic carving.
“The animation process began with vector-based illustrations, which we used as a blocking phase to establish key moments, structure, and overall motion. This stage refined camera movement and defined which sections of the mural required animation or additional assets from lead illustrator Jorge Artola.
“To create the tile mosaic, we began by studying how tiled murals are constructed in the physical world, the use of cement as an adhesive, the subtle mis-alignments between tiles, and the way time introduces variation through wear, staining, and shifts in color.
“We recreated this process digitally by animating the tiles in Cinema 4D, building a system that allowed each piece to move as part of a larger, unified structure. The aging and surface variation were then developed in post-production, where we introduced nuanced differences in color, wear, and texture.”
Client: Disney+
Production: Imaginary Forces
CD: Karin Fong, Tosh Kodama
Lead animator: Merrill Hall
Animator: Henry Chang
Illustrator: Jorge Artola
Editor: Lexi Gunvaldson
Painter: Ruthy Kim
Animation intern: David Oye
Producer: Jake Fritz
Associate producer: Nic Luong
EP: Renée Robson
