Corpse Bride DVD menu environment

DVD Intro Design — B1Media

Corpse Bride

Warner Bros. · Tim Burton Maya · 3D Menu Design Home-Video Release

The film's stop-motion gothic world, carried into the menus

DVD menu design for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, created for B1Media for the film's home-video release. I did all of the 3D work in Maya — modeling, animating, and rendering menu environments that carried the film's stop-motion gothic world into the interactive menus.

Why it matters: a DVD menu has to live inside someone else's fully realized art direction. The 3D work had to sit seamlessly next to Burton's frames without ever breaking the illusion.

ClientWarner Bros. / Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Design CompanyB1Media
Jordan Halsey3D Modeling, Animation & Rendering (Maya)

The work included

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Menu Environments

Maya · Modeling & Animation

Every environment was modeled, animated, and rendered in Maya — built to carry the film's stop-motion gothic world into the interactive menus.

Corpse Bride DVD menu environment
Corpse Bride DVD menu environment

"It had to sit seamlessly next to Burton's frames without ever breaking the illusion."

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Inside Burton's World

Rendered Frames · Home-Video Release

The finished frames — 3D environments living inside someone else's fully realized art direction, designed to read as part of the film itself.

Corpse Bride DVD menu rendered frame
Corpse Bride DVD menu rendered frame
Corpse Bride DVD menu frame