Kyle Cooper's title sequence for Se7en (1995) is the most influential motion design work of the last thirty years. The New York Times called it one of the most important design innovations of the 1990s. It almost single-handedly revived interest in title design as a discipline.
The technique is deliberately analog in a digital era: type etched into scratchboard, tabletop photography of a killer's obsessive preparations, all assembled by hand and shot on film. The deliberate imperfection — the flicker, the jitter, the accidents — is what gives it psychological weight. Cooper demonstrates that the texture of a surface communicates before the content does.
Study the edit rhythm: staccato, unpredictable, never settling. The viewer is kept permanently off-balance, which is precisely the state the film needs them in. This is motion design as psychological preparation, not decoration.