Kyle Cooper is a designer for many well-known motion picture title sequences, but he didn’t get where he is today right away. It is said by many that Mr. Cooper’s personality is very “out there”. For example, he has many strange pets in his studio which include octopuses, spiders, and pythons. They say his home and studio looks like something you would see in a horror movie or fear factor. Although people may find this strange, it is what inspired him over the years. (Gibson) Originating from Salem, Massachusetts, Kyle Cooper was born in 1962 on the month of July. He started his design career studying at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying interior architecture, not exactly what you would expect from a title sequence designer. Soon …show more content…
Rand was a very heavy influence on where he is today. His first step in his professional career he worked at an advertising agency called R/GA as a creative director. Here is where he helped produce his very first title sequence, Seven, a popular American Crime film. Cooper explained while making this title sequence that he didn’t want to be cliché, he wanted to raise the bar creatively and produce something that others have never seen before. He wanted to be different than all the competitors. In the following year, 1996 Cooper co-founded Imaginary Forces with Peter Frankfurt and Chip Houghton. Imaginary Forces became one of the most successful creative agencies in Hollywood, although the agency was very successful that they created, Cooper decided that he wanted to focus on this own work more. That being said, he left Imaginary Forces in the year 2003. Cooper had big and wild dreams of his own that he wanted to accomplish. He wanted to call something his own, so after leaving the agency he created his own in which he named Prologue, he works with a small creative team concentrating on title sequences which first was located in Malibu, but then they moved offices in Venice Beach, California in the year 2008.