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# WATCH: Animated Version of 'Breaking Bad' Opening Credits

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Sep 11, 2012 12:00 PM UTC

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[TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/)

Sep 11, 2012 12:00 PM UTC

Has your life been lacking a certain drug-dealing high school chemistry teacher since the mid-season finale on September 2nd?

French graphic designer Martin Woutisseth hopes his interpretation of _Breaking Bad_‘s opening credits will entertain fans of the AMC drama until summer 2013, when the second half of the final season airs.

(**MORE:** [_Breaking Bad_ Watch: Flush of Recognition](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/09/04/breaking-bad-watch-flush-of-recognition/))

“While watching episodes of _Breaking Bad_, I was imagining myself in the desert in New Mexico with the bad guys and cartels,” he told TIME via telephone.

Woutisseth’s animation style is influenced by Japanese anime, thanks to a year he spent in Osaka, Japan, working for a Japanese graphic design company. He bought the rock ‘n’ roll-style background music — “Mexico” by Gringo — from the Vimeo music store. In the description of the video on YouTube, he explains how he tried to match up the cast with the song lyrics. For instance, when the line “I lost my convictions” is sung, an image of the character Saul appears because he is “the attorney who is not every time honest.” See the _Breaking Bad_ opening credits [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDFAYRtrYuk) to compare Woutisseth’s version to the original.

The graphic designer has created other animations inspired by pop culture: he released one depicting [Tim Burton’s filmography](http://vimeo.com/42266114) in June and one depicting [Stanley Kubrick’s filmography](http://vimeo.com/23030893) (_A Clockwork Orange_ director) last year.

(**MORE:** [_Breaking Bad_ Watch: Four Terrifying Glimpses of Walter White, Lost Cause)](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/27/breaking-bad-walter-white-mike/)

Woutisseth is not the only artist who has drawn creative inspiration from _Breaking Bad_. Increasingly, fans are turning to art, graphic design, and Adobe Photoshop to keep the show alive off-air. Producer/editor Ben Stoddard [created a _Mad Men_ version of the _Breaking Bad_ opening credits](http://vimeo.com/39223336) in March 2012\. And from August 20 to 26, 2012, there was an exhibit of [art inspired by _Breaking Bad_](http://nineteeneightyeight.com/collections/breaking-bad-art-project) at [Gallery 1988](http://nineteeneightyeight.com/) in Los Angeles.

Fan-produced mashups with other popular franchises keep the show going, too. The site _Something Awful_ has recently posted [photoshopped images of _Breaking Bad_ and _Star Wars_](http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2012/09/breaking-bad-and-star-wars-mashups/#page/1) (“Breaking Wars! Star Bad!”). A [_Breaking Bad_/Batman mashup](http://www.geekosystem.com/breaking-batman/) popped on the scene in July. Back in December 2011, [a _Breaking Bad_/_The Simpsons_ mashup](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Qv2hCprbs) went viral.

**MORE:** [Archive of TIME’s _Breaking Bad_ coverage and recaps](http://entertainment.time.com/tag/breaking-bad/)

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