Animated credits

Saul Bass? Overrated? His work is better than 99% of the credits I see in films today.

Please explain your stance.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!

Saul Bass, overrated?... Not bloody likely... His logos alone are testament of his greatness... The thing you don't seem to realize is that artists like Saul Bass and Paul Rand were the pioneers of the "idea simplified to a single motif" type of design... As a graphic designer, you should know this...

Pushing buttons in Corel doesn't actually qualify you as a graphic designer, and your knock of Bass proves it.

If you had any real background as a designer you would have better idea of Saul Bass's place in graphic design. I don't wish to be too demeaning, but really.

His animated film credits are incredibly strong and distilled to the most essential elements. "North by Northwest" has a clever & strong title sequence.
His sense of composition is so fine tuned as to be exquisite.

I can give lots of technical reasons why Saul Bass was a genius. But anyone with a trained eye will see it immediately. You might not appreciate him, or like his work, but to call him overrated is just exposing your own shallow understanding of the profession you claim as your own.

Sorry, but such an extraordinarily broad and unsupported statement is just juvenile.

And for the initial question, I would suggest any of Bass's other openings. They aren't all cartoons as such, but all have a very nice clean "modern" style and pacing.

The title sequence for "Bunny Lake is Missing" is taught & sets the mood foe everything that follows, the same is true for "Psycho." "In Harm's Way" only uses typography but the placement on the screen is flawless. Check out the closeups at the start of "Seconds."

"The Man with the Golden Arm" is so hip & of its time it foreshadows the jumbled life and stark pressures of the main character.