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850 METERS is an "after hours" project, an animated comedy short currently in production, produced by THURISTAR and Lunanime, with the support of the VAF.

The film tells the QUEST of a FAME-AND-FORTUNE-hungry, wannabe hero, in a not-so-fairy tale!

A not-so-brave KNIGHT is on a QUEST for FAME and FORTUNE – legend says rescuing a princess is the way to go. And in those same fairytales, there’s only one way to slay the dragons that hold the fair lady captive: find the INVINCIBLE SWORD !
To reach his goal, the knight is ready to go FAR. Maybe even as FAR as 850 meters…


850 METERS will be sent to festivals in 2012. As we move forward with the production of the short, THURISTAR is also producing a ‘making-of’ of the film. The idea is to follow the work of our small team ‘behind the scenes’, through short episodes, each of them featuring a different production step.
Mostly Belgian, but also French, American, Norwegian, Danish and from Luxemburg, the 850 METERS team is working between London, Paris, Valence, Copenhagen, Albuquerque, Kortrijk and Ghent, for a few months of ‘after hours’ production.

Follow the making-of on thuristar.com/projects/850-meters/

A THURISTAR – LUNANIME short film
Created and directed by Joeri Christiaen
Music by Frederik Segers
Written by Joeri Christiaen and Perrine Gauthier
Creative Producer: Perrine Gauthier
Executive Producer: Annemie Degryse
With the participation of PMG Worldwide (messiahStudio) and Temple of Tune
With the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF)

With the AMAZING work of:
Vegard Myklebust, Technical Director
Michael Mahy, Character Animator
Mette Tange, Character Animator
Olivier Thill, Modeler and Z-brush artist
Maud Chalmel, Graphic Artist

Making-of by Antoine Kerninon & Perrine Gauthier

Credits

  • THURISTAR
    Author, Director, Producer, Music

Likes

  • Jack Jack 1 year ago
    Awesome... looking foward for the final production!
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  • Konogan plus 1 year ago
    very very nice.
    i want to see more
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  • deKO.lt 1 year ago
    Haha, SUPER! :)
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  • Nacho Malter 1 year ago
    LMAO! This is flawlessly awsome!
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  • Manticodela 1 year ago
    Nice (dragon) bullet Time! LOL
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  • manikandan 1 year ago
    Awesome! i love it
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  • Mauro Misiewicz 1 year ago
    wow!! haha good job!
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  • Pill 1 year ago
    Ha ha ha !
    More...
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thx a lot everyone for the enthusiastic comments !
    We're indeed busy on showing more ;)
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  • Ceiga plus 1 year ago
    Awesome teaser.
    Posted on ceiga.co.uk/blog/
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  • 3DTotal.com plus 1 year ago
    Great work! Really funny, looking forward to the whole short.
    Posted on the 3dtotal.com frontpage.
  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thx 3DTotal, we were really happy to see the nice post today !
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  • kantarama gahigiri 1 year ago
    Bravo!
    Trop envie de voir la suite!!!
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  • manikandan 1 year ago
    Awesome! Really superb,very funny! i love him face Expression :) , and Music also Great .
    Keep rocking
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  • grzegorz jonkajtys plus 1 year ago
    Great!
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  • jeanlucstar 1 year ago
    terrible !!!
    c'te tronche de héros débile !
    vivement.
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  • hahahhaah awesome
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  • espo 1 year ago
    Haha, now that was funny! Love that music!
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  • Michael Mahy 1 year ago
    Horse = Epic
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  • Lorenzo Colaiori 1 year ago
    Awesome.
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  • Rodrigo Ortega 1 year ago
    Wow!
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  • chukmek 1 year ago
    brilliant)
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  • Mr.T 1 year ago
    I laughed really hard on this one hahaha excellent!
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  • Lightbox Studios plus 1 year ago
    AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING! Can't wait to see it finished! Thanks for the inspiration!
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  • Styler 1 year ago
    Very cool! It's looks not so boring like others animations )
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  • Ivan D Romero A 1 year ago
    Is this in LIGHTWAVE?
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  • framel73 1 year ago
    Love it~
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thx everyone - nice to read you reactions :)
    @Ivan: parts are Lightwave for the teaser, but mostly done in messiahStudio. Great software, and great people behind it - who actually support our project :)
    The film will be done completely in messiah. (projectmessiah.com/x6/index.html)
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  • Tanya Aydostian 1 year ago
    Great ! I want to see more ;)
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  • Adek 1 year ago
    Many Polish viewers can't wait to see the full version!

    We have also put your teaser at front of the Max3D.pl
    max3d.pl/news.php?id=1505
  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Adek !
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  • Andry Shango 1 year ago
    Great job, ça défonce!
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  • Vladimir Teneslav plus 1 year ago
    That face made my day! Can't wait for the whole short.
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thank you, merci, dankje well everyone :)
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  • firstsingle 1 year ago
    Great teaser. That guy has an impressive smile.
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  • Daniel Rybkin 1 year ago
    Superb!!! super cool!
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  • brkonja 1 year ago
    Teasers like this one should be banned. :) Now i cant wait to see the rest. Facial expressions when he plays guitar are superb. I whisled music whole day.
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  • Dmitry Sobolev 1 year ago
    It`s AMAZING!
    I am looking It again and again and again...
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  • Dmitry Sobolev 1 year ago
    and again and again and again.....!!!!!!!
  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    :)
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  • Steve Beaucamp plus 1 year ago
    AMAZIIIIIING !!! Very good . I want to see more !
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  • Sabine Koops 1 year ago
    It's so great! I especially love the music <3
    the camera moves are dashing and the characters, of course, are very nice!
    I'm looking forward to more :)
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  • Tamilselvan 1 year ago
    don't know when i am going to work in this kind of production,no words to say AWESOME
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  • Lovevcade 1 year ago
    Great great great I love it !
    Posted on motionbreak.com/v275
  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thx !
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Next to the making of, you can also follow 850 on Facebook
    (facebook.com/pages/850-METERS/372203645758)

    much thx
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  • MR Nunez 1 year ago
    Looks really nice ¡¡¡ love the song. 10 points XD
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  • rabiscado 1 year ago
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Facial expression really fun!!! Awesome work! congrats. thanks for sharing
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  • panic embryo 1 year ago
    oh man I want to see this! Looks fantastic...gorgeous animation and charm to it.
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  • ENCORE 1 year ago
    Awesome !! )))
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  • Maximilien Dehove 1 year ago
    Very fun !

    Blog Post: pollygone.fr/teaser-850-meters
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  • Jonathan Mafi 1 year ago
    HAHA awesome!
    I love the way his head moves when he pulls out his lyre/guitar thingamee.
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  • sreenivas alapati 1 year ago
    nice work. music is excellent.
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  • Udaya Vel 1 year ago
    a brilliant teaser... watched it like 7 times :-) the music is excellent too... i loved the part where he starts playing the instrument... :-)
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  • Mike Yang 1 year ago
    nice,i love it!
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thanks much everyone for the very stimulating and expressive feedback ;)
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  • farhaad_yousefi 1 year ago
    =)) i laughed my guts out.!!
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  • Fred. L'Epee plus 1 year ago
    So smart, that 's fantastic. Great editing work-
    Just Welldone.
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  • ABsoltutoly AWESOM!!!!

    cant wait to see the short
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  • Amit Paul 1 year ago
    what's the name of the song?
  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    "Brave Night" ! by Frederik Segers
    More great music to come in the short :)
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  • SOS 1 year ago
    yes! this looks wondrful please more!
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  • Petar Stamenkovic 1 year ago
    I'm loving it. I want to see it whole :D
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  • Ignasi Vidal 1 year ago
    You made me laugh today... I love the "neck movements" ... :D

    Keep rocking!
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  • karikoga 1 year ago
    Can't stop watching this...Now I HAVE TO see the rest.
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Wow, thanks everyone for your stimulating enthusiasm :)
    We're indeed working on 'the rest', the film itself !
    Still a few months of production to go, since this is an 'after hours' project... and that we want to make the best film possible.
    You can follow it 'behind the scenes' on thuristar.com/projects/850-meters/#makingof or here on Vimeo : vimeo.com/thuristar/videos
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  • Coldframe 1 year ago
    WO!!cant wait to see the rest
    good luck

    IsmaiL.
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    The software (Pmg's messiahStudio) used to animate, and render this short film (and all other THURISTAR projects) is doing a stunning marketing campaign :

    Order a license for 10$ (40$ for the pro version)
    IF the progress bar (see the link) of sold licenses reaches its end, by the end of this campaign - you get that lice...nse for that price :)

    projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html
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  • Felix Kütt 1 year ago
    "In this story the knight is a moron & the dragon will be a hero for eating him! :o" heh, seems funny, and the quality is awesome, keep it up! :)

    edit: yeah, the messiah offer is awesome, wish I could buy it, but my bank's a *****, no paypal for me. :(
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  • bishwooby 1 year ago
    Hilarious!
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  • 3DStreaming 1 year ago
    Very nice, great images, I added a clip to our site 3dstreaming.com

    Also, excited that you used messiah studio - managed to get two licenses, CA has been a bit of a challenge within Lightwave3D, have not ventured far - can't wait to get started.
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 year ago
    Thx for your support in the film :) and welcome to the messiah studio community !
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  • Jan Wosnitza 1 year ago
    truly, a masterpiece of art/entertainment :D
    can't stop watching!!!
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  • mmbrucelo 9 months ago
    Awesome~~~~~~~~~~~~~~coooooooooool
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  • naveed khawar 9 months ago
    very nice music, theme, expressions, massiah rocking
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  • laxman2527 9 months ago
    i love his face Expressionssss...........Great work
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  • Rico Callirgos 9 months ago
    Badass.
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  • Rico Callirgos 9 months ago
    Seriously though. This is badass.
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  • Rami Daoud 6 months ago
    Greattttt...Priceless expressions, when he played the mandolin...:D...
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  • Rakshan Raj 5 months ago
    very very nice.. Great work
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  • Rasmus Dahl Møller 5 months ago
    Great work! We look forward to see more.
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  • Alexandre Agostini 5 months ago
    great work!
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  • HakanYılmaz 4 months ago
    i wait for this movie. i love your workflow and i love your style
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  • 3d2dizayn 2 months ago
    :) Funny character :) So funny :) Great work!
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  • THURISTAR plus 1 month ago
    Thanks everyone for the very enthusiastic and supportive comments ! This year the film will be completed :)
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  • Curtis Redden plus 1 month ago
    Awesome! Ive been watching the behind the scenes clips.

    Looks like alot of time and effort for a short film festival project. What is the budget for something this large, if you dont mind me asking?
  • THURISTAR plus 1 month ago
    Hi Curtis, we'll release a new episode shortly, hope you'll enjoy it...
    About the budget, it'd be very difficult to say, as you can tell we've stopped counting hours a while ago ;) it's time and effort for sure, but also a lot of fun !
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  • Edgardo Padilla Jr 1 month ago
    Really nice Teaser, I can see this being a full blown movie someday. I was wondering since I saw this at the 11 Second Club, are you guys looking for people to help out on the project?
  • THURISTAR plus 1 month ago
    Thx :) and thx for the offer too, but we're keeping the team very small...
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