Friends Opening Credits Redesign

For this project I reimagined the TV show Friends’ iconic opening credits. I started by drawing a storyboard of how I wanted the different scenes to look like and then illustrated them on Ai. The concept behind the design of the illustrations was based on the colour palettes used in the show. The purple is based on the colour of the apartment walls where the whole show takes place in and the yellow is taken from the iconic door frame hung behind the door of that same apartment.

Year

2022

 

Category
Illustration
Motion Design
Storyboarding
 

The Result

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The icons in the «Friends’ opening credits redesign» that you can see on top, represent each character in some type of way or replicates a scene where they take part in that has become famous after the show.

  • Phoebe Buffey has a guitar as her illustration because throughout the whole show the guitar was part of her character’s story.
  • Rachel Green‘s illustrations are both the hat and the shoe and the icons are based off a scene of one of the first episodes of the show, when she had just arrived in Manhattan and was talking to his father about her moving there permanently.
  • Monica Geller‘s character is represented by the iconic turkey for two reasons: (1) in one of the thanksgiving episodes, she wears the turkey on her head and (2) she is a cook at a restaurant.
  • Joey Tribianni‘s character is a pizza slice because pizza is his favourite food in the world.
  • Chandler Bing‘s icon is a postcard from Yemen because at one point of the show he said that he was moving to Yemen in hopes of avoiding a break up with his current girlfriend.
  • Ross Geller‘s icon is a dinosaur as he works as a museum curator and is a paleontologist for a living.

The Illustrations

The Storyboard

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