Sony original series · 2024

Playa Soledad

Delicate, and in no hurry.

Year
2024
Production
Sony original series
Format
Main titles · 1920×1080 · 60s
My role
Art direction and style frames
Animation
Bravo Animation
Where
Apple TV

Opening titles for a Sony original series. Art direction and all style frames — a quieter register than Ligeramente Diva, built on restraint rather than energy.

01 The brief

A series that asks for quiet

Not every opening should announce itself. This one had to be inviting and delicate — the kind of sequence a viewer lets play instead of skipping, because it feels like part of the story rather than a gate in front of it.

02 The system

Boards before frames

The sequence was built as a series of boards in 2048×1080 — cinema framing from the first sketch, so that composition, negative space and the placement of type were decided in the real proportion instead of adapted into it later.

03 Style frames

The sequence, board by board

Each board holds a moment and a credit. Read in order, they carry the whole arc of the opening.

04 Motion

The sequence

The approved frames become the sequence, timed to the track. Nothing is discovered here — it was all decided in the stills.

Restraint is a decision, not an absence. Everything left out was left out on purpose.