QUT film and television graduate Patrick Clair has been nominated for an Emmy for creating the moody opening title sequence for the American HBO series True Detective.
Clair, who graduated from QUT in 2002, is an international director, creative director and motion designer and the creative director of Antibody - a Sydney-based design and production studio that specialises in trailers, titles and storytelling.
The 31-year-old's varied work has included the official trailer for hit TV series The Blacklist, creating visuals for Irish rock star Bono's presentation at the 2013 TED conference in California, a foreign policy briefing video for President Barack Obama (commissioned by Washington think-tank the Brookings Institution), and a powerful video infographic for the ABC's Hungry Beast program on the Stuxnet computer virus weapon.
Clair's Emmy nomination in the "outstanding main title design" category is the first time he has made the short-list in the world's highest-profile TV awards.
The winners of the Creative Arts Emmys will be announced in Los Angeles on August 18.
Clair focused on live-action directing, including 16mm short films, during his arts degree at QUT, and then went on to do a graduate degree in visual effects and titles design from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
After finishing his studies, he worked at MTV and with Australia's ABC, and freelanced for several years before starting Antibody in Sydney.
If you want a closer look at what it takes to create an Emmy-worthy titles sequence, check out Clair's piece on the making of the True Detective sequence.
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