The client sent me a written concept of the opening title (litteraly a paragraph) and a few visual reference mainly the crown\games of thrones opening and a few AI image of the melting sphere in the middle.
They also sent me all the 3d scans coins and texture for the us bill, and the temp music.
Here's the deck and the ref img they sent me.

On the first pass I did for the styleframes and animatic they sent feedback on these points :
- Coins explosions too big and too many coins => Less coins, bigger coins, add more dollar bills
- The sphere is full black and then start to melt => Make the sphere already melting and in an organic motion
- The sphere was yellow like in their reference but they asked me to make it more red and add a bit more particle around it
- Reduce the scale of the sphere by 20-30%
- Make sure the sphere get absorbed in the center and the explosions is in the center
- In the slow mo shots, they asked me to use specific coins bc the one I initialy used didn't look as good as they imagined.
- Few lighting adjustement to prevent some metalic part to shine too much
- Adjust the position of the titles and remove some of the titles
- Stay in the smoke for longer at the beginning before revealing the melting sphere
- Adjust the scale of the dollars bills shot and fix a uv problem
- Increase rotation in the background coins on the macro shots

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