Bob Kurtz is an animator, director, and producer who founded Kurtz & Friends animation in 1981. He is known for his work on film and television title sequences, including for The Pink Panther. Kurtz won over 250 awards for his work and taught character animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He created new title sequences for films that needed help attracting audiences, and focused on injecting humor into the sequences while keeping each film's style.

2. Bob Kurtz was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from the
Chouinard Art Institute which is now called ‘The California Institute of the
Arts’ Bob Kurtz is the founder of ‘Kurtz & friends animation’. He is also a
director, producer, a artist and designer. He is also involved and has a career
in films and Television commercials. He is a teacher of the ‘Character
Animation program’ and has taught this in the ‘California institute of the arts’
as character animation is one of his specialties.
Bob Kurtz is the winner of over 250 awards including:
• Peabody award
• Emmy award,
• Annie Award for Lifetime Achievement,
• Clio Awards,
• U.S. Television & Film Festival - New York
and many more.

3. Kurtz and friends is a animation studio founded by Bob in 1981. The company was
based in Burbank – California . Kurtz and friends were most known for producing
film and television commercials. The first piece of work created by the company
was the special effects for ‘A Midsummer Nights sex comedy’ in 1982. Working
together with Kurtz, Kurtz and friends created the main titles for ‘The pink
panther’, ‘Are we done yet’ , ‘George of the jungle’ and many more. Together they
have also created several animation sequences and commercials.

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKPxHZ5OcQ

5. This image straight away suggests that it is a
animated film genre. Also The contrast of
colour between the pink and black shows
that this film is aimed towards children
because of the bright pink and lilac.
The pink typography is continuing the
the friendly theme/mood of the title
sequence once again due to the bright
pink in contrast to the black to show it is
more important.

6. The use of shadow is very effective as it
creates another mood which is mystery and
this is helped to be created by the use off
sound. The music is a slow pace repeative
sound to create meaning to the audience like
there is a mystery that needs to be solved
therefore a enigma has been created. Once
again the colour contrast between the grey
and yellow creates a friendly ambiance.
Here shows how the smashed title has been
over exaggerated therefore once again
suggesting children are the target audience as
slapstick comedy is mostly used, this has
created another genre in the film of comedy
therefore the genre has become a hybrid.
Effect after
breaking title –
Slapstick comedy.

7. Position within the frame is Continuing the colour
central therefore showing the scheme of the pink panther.
importance of the editor. Also representing the film
name.
Formal writing –
representing detectives
Detective kept within
as they analyse text for
the frame to show
evidence.
how he is related to
the text format.

8. After working for Friz Freleng by writing some scripts for the original
pink panther short films, Kurtz was chosen to create another title
sequence in 2006 of the original 1963 version of ‘The pink panther.’
When the Pink Panther producers ran into trouble they decided
to bring in three companies. As Bob Kurtz was known for his
comedic film title skills he was chosen for the job. When Bob was
brought in a title sequence had already been created but with the
approval of the director but not all the other producers, the team
began to panic and set up a competition in which the talented
Kurtz won.
When Kurt went through the character creation stage he didn’t
want to lose the pink panther style and flavour so Kurtz
decided to edit the Pink panther with better animation effects
rather than changing the appearance and loosing the
reputation that the outstanding original Friz Freleng and
Richard Williams produced.

9. http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0013-Are_We_Done_Yet

10. With the background labeling building
plans, the typography on this shot
could be suggesting materials such as
wood because of the sharp edges and
straight lines.
Continued by another bright coloured text, this
could be suggesting it is a family film therefore
suitable for all ages. It gives the friendly
atmosphere making the audience aware it is
far from a horror.
The character animation comes onto the frame
whilst this text is being positioned, this shows
how the text and character are related and the
text is central therefore stating the characters
importance and the man role as he is the first
actors name on screen.

11. Once again showing the film involves
construction by hitting the title with a
hammer therefore showing how they are
related especially how it is the film title this
shows construction and failure will be a
main event in the film.
Once again slapstick comedy is added
with Kurtz Titles to show how there will
be humorous moments in the film but
not constantly.
Here the image once again suggests
it is a family film, but this also is
attracting children as the audience
as it shows them the perfect family
lifestyle.

12. Looking for the man who did ‘City Slickers ‘Steve Carr had no idea where to find bob Kurtz.
The first time Meeting Bob, Steve ran towards him, hugged him and said, "You're a fucking
genius”, Kurtz instantly replied "I love those two words together.” (Laughed) and after that
moment they had officially met.
After giving Kurtz a set brief, his own opinion did not agree with Steve’s as it was to
specific and not humorous enough so he took it upon himself to go and write a new
idea; Steve thought it was great what he had done.
After being so successful with the opening credits, Kurtz ended up also doing the end
credits. A 20 second clip of all the characters bowing with ice cube leading them, this
also got a good reception therefore showing how Kurtz gets awarded for making
simple things more entertaining.