Concept and creative process
The CGI titles for the daily ‘BBC Breakfast Time’ show created at Crown Computer Graphics by designers Tim Goodchild and Mark Hobbins. In 1986, ‘Breakfast Time’ was the first News programme to create programme content artwork digitally. The graphics were made using Quantel Paintboxes and Framestores and transmitted live from a ‘graphics gallery’. Before that everything, including the weather, was done with cardboard and Letraset and fed via caption cameras to the studio. Gradually a digital workflow was introduced across all Current Affairs programmes and eventually even BBC News.