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Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop.

Story
Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he discovers that the right death isn't so easy.

Credits
A film by: Benjamin J. Kousholt, Daniel D. Christensen, Mads Lundgaard Christensen, Jesper A. Jensen, Jonas K. Doctor, Steffen Lyhne, Pernille Ørum-Nielsen, Frederik Bjerre-Poulsen, Jonas Georgakakis

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  • aseem2011 1 year ago
    is very good
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  • Simon Lindenthaler 1 year ago
    What an amazing and hilarious ending. Really great work, I loved the almost painting-esque style of the visuals too.
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  • Vitor Vilela 1 year ago
    Hahahahaha! Amazing!
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  • Jesper Jensen 1 year ago
    Thank you for the kind words!
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  • Alekz Zapanta 1 year ago
    amazing! I love the look and character designs. Congratulations
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  • Vincent Lammers 1 year ago
    Really good! I like it a lot!

    Hope it brings you guys a lot of good things.

    Make it grand.

    Cheers,
    Vincent
    V
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  • RIK 1 year ago
    Nice style. Funny ending!
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  • Thibaut Breton 1 year ago
    Very funny, and great style !
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  • magallanes 1 year ago
    godlike video.
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  • Mark Clarkson 1 year ago
    Really, really good. Great ending!
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  • Tommi A. 1 year ago
    Modern man, castrated by the normality of middle class averageness is living in a hell on earth.
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  • Philip G 1 year ago
    looked forward to see the whole short after the sneak peak on the fmx last year.. well done, great work. very cool style and story. one of my favorites ;)
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  • Glenn Crawford 1 year ago
    Sad ending - I hope we will some day see a sequel where Bjorn can finally get his reward
    Great film!
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  • Mehdi Mirzae 1 year ago
    terrible destiny . hahahah

    very sweet animation :))
    i like it ,
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  • Jesper Jensen 11 months ago
    Thanks all and sorry for the inability to post comments. It seems to be sorted now.

    cheers
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  • ediedii 11 months ago
    This is my favorite of all the projects, finally I can comment to say that, hahaha. It is amazing, everything.
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  • pako 11 months ago
    just wonderful
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  • Nivlheim 11 months ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Felipe Rojas plus 11 months ago
    ★★★★★
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  • Antonio Leal plus 11 months ago
    It's wondeful! great work!
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  • Ellis Chan 11 months ago
    The ending can be better, it cannot surpriser me.
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  • Draško Ivezić plus 11 months ago
    Question about technology, is it 3d with some kind of funky render or just polished painting in tvpaint, for example? Backgrounds are obviously painted, but I think of characters
  • Frederik Bjerre-Poulsen 11 months ago
    The characters are 3d. They were rendered in a bunch of different custom passes that we then used to create the final look in compositing.

    here is a link to a making of, by one of my team members Jonas Georgakakis.

    vimeo.com/20100174

    It has a nice overview of how the character look was achieved.
  • Daniel Dion Christensen 11 months ago
    I like the term funky render better!!! ;)
  • Michael Fuchs 9 months ago
    yeah "funky ray", brand new from pixar ;)
  • Draško Ivezić plus 9 months ago
    I like this brilliant funky rig, I would like to have it and play with it :)
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  • Thiago Maia 11 months ago
    great work guys. just posted on See No Evil: seenoevil.tv/2011/03/the-saga-of-biorn/
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  • slamtwo 11 months ago
    Probably one of the best short student movie i've ever seen! Very well job guys!
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  • Anders Dahl 11 months ago
    Love it!! The ending is perfect.
    True viking spirit.
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  • Tim Vining plus 11 months ago
    Hilarious! Very funny, and looks great.
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  • Esteban Salazar 11 months ago
    Awesome, I really love the detail, superb......
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  • Memag 11 months ago
    I love it.
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  • budlix 11 months ago
    hey Mads! Totally amazing! The idea, the.. haven't words.
    Just admiration..
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  • AnderGraw 11 months ago
    Oooohhhh...poor viking...

    Superb work guys!!!
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  • Shadrach 11 months ago
    Holy heismusikk!
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  • Felix Joleanes 11 months ago
    great message
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  • Symonak 11 months ago
    Amazing story AND animation. Good job guys!
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  • Color Lounge - Cedric Riveau 11 months ago
    So cool! Well done guys. Heil to you!
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  • Matthew Kieren 11 months ago
    This is great, I really enjoyed it and would love to see more! I hope you guys are planning on making a sequel or prequel..
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  • Tripy 11 months ago
    Those damn nuns... They're ruining everything!
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  • Mandel Brothers plus 11 months ago
    So good :)
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  • Arctic_Bunny 11 months ago
    One of the best shorts I've seen-great storytelling!
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  • Komal Verma 11 months ago
    Ah poor Biorn!! Brilliant, loved every second of it :D
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  • Emre Saglam 10 months ago
    i also liked the idea of Captain Awesome Heaven passing by so quick on the list :)
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  • Daniel Arnold 10 months ago
    This started me on The Animation Workshop. The people involved are incredibly talented. This is the least that I can say for them. Poor Biorn, lol
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  • Rickard Bengtsson plus 10 months ago
    Fantastic!

    Very funny and a very cool style
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  • Gleb Svechnikov 10 months ago
    well done
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  • maria vargas g 10 months ago
    fenomenal!!!!!!!!
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  • 3DStreaming 10 months ago
    Very nice! We have added it to our website, thank you for also sharing your making of, it is always interesting to see "behind the scenes" work - 3dstreaming.com
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  • Eivind Jacobsen 10 months ago
    I really enjoyed watching this. Great story!!!
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  • pavel80 9 months ago
    Great!
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  • simdude2u 9 months ago
    great job! this could be a tv show.
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  • Andreas Qassim 9 months ago
    Let me just say:
    - great character design
    - great animation
    - great environments
    - great story (I laughed!)
    It works so well! Congratulations!
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  • Michael Fuchs 9 months ago
    looking forward to see it on a big screen soon.
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  • Priyank Prem Kumar 8 months ago
    amazing!
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  • Nils Eckhardt 8 months ago
    I laughed my head off, thanks man.
    Come on, help me finding it...
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  • LeKNIGHTFILM LIMITED 8 months ago
    one of the most amazing things i have ever seen
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  • Paulo "Help" Infante 8 months ago
    great characters! great animation! great story! great music!
    amazing!
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  • Niklas Holmberg 8 months ago
    Amazing work. You got me hooked al the way through. The style, shading and lightning played very well together. The story was both twisty and funny. The little details really helped nail it, like the jelly belly of the giant. Congrats.
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  • Wgo 7 months ago
    It's My favourite !
    Keep going on ! you are amazing !
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  • Bobby Tanzola 7 months ago
    You guys are geniuses
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  • Thomas Hamdani plus 7 months ago
    Nice
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  • Eric Scheurer 6 months ago
    Excellent! made me laugh a lot! Great work too! Thanks
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  • Christina C. 6 months ago
    Excellent :) Fantastic work .
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  • Tiago Bischoff 6 months ago
    Great!
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  • ActiveTvNetworks 6 months ago
    Outstanding work everyone who worked on the film. I run Sketchoholic.com & MadArist Publishing. We would like to feature this film and conduct an interview with the director or the group for our upcoming Digital Magazine and Interactive Video Art Book entitled "Animation Stories" Please visit Sketchozine.com for our other publications. I'll have my editors contact you individually if we don't hear from you. You can find me on facebook.com/Marcin.Migdal directly..I look forward in chatting to you all..Marcin
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  • Gabriele Albuquerque 6 months ago
    it's really funny! great work!
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  • Estefferson Torres 5 months ago
    Troll nuns!!!
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  • Pipo & Astutto plus 5 months ago
    Poor and amazing Biorn!
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  • Mugur Matei 5 months ago
    Fantastic work guys! :D

    PS: So it seems that heaven it's not the best place to go into your afterlife! :)
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  • David Struve 4 months ago
    Love it! I can excuse the blatant error of putting Vikings and Christians/Catholics in the same time-frame (Christianity didn't start til long after the Vikings were gone) because this animation is so well done, is funny as hell (pardon the pun lol) and has such a unique look and feel to it! :) Excellent job!!
  • Daniel Dion Christensen 4 months ago
    Hey, sorry but Christianity was around while the Vikings where. There are numerous finds in Scandinavia from smithies where people could get either the hammer of Thor or a cross made (both symbols would even be in the same mold). The Viking era ended around year 1000 AC... So ample of time to meet Christians and in the end join them. :)
  • Daniel Dion Christensen 4 months ago
    But thanks anyway :D
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  • Cristiano Schuch 4 months ago
    Sensacional!
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  • Blork 4 months ago
    I love it ! This is so cool ! Good story, funny, nice animation and design/style.

    Really amazing. :-)
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  • Elias Stern 4 months ago
    Bjorn needs his own death metal soundtrack, he's that awesome.

    Shared it on Totes-Sick-Amation.tumblr.com
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  • Brauni Audiovisual 4 months ago
    lovit!
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  • Pro Video Solutions 4 months ago
    The best student film I've ever seen. Amazing. I wish you all the best and hope you get an amazing job in the animation industry.
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  • Carolina Gomez 4 months ago
    very funny i love the scene of the bird

    Love it!
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  • seungrae kim 3 months ago
    wow very very good! good!
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  • Alexandre Crespo 3 months ago
    awesome
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  • Stefan Hornof 3 months ago
    sick!
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  • Henrik Kruger 3 months ago
    Love this movie!
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  • António Duarte Silva 2 months ago
    *sound of my jaw dropping*
    I Love It! Absolutely brilliant.
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  • Gavin C> Reed 2 months ago
    One of the best short animated films I've ever seen period.
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  • Raymond McCarthy Bergeron 1 month ago
    HA-larious! Loved the twists you all put in. Enjoyed your color and use of animation and antics. Great comedic timing and blending of the 2D and 3D styles. Very impressive piece of work!
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  • Nadim Murr plus 4 weeks ago
    Nice Story... Nicely Done! :)
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  • Michael Rynkowski 3 weeks ago
    Brilliant story, nice music, effects and voice! Perfect!
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  • Fruit Punch Studios 3 weeks ago
    It's one of my most favourite short film~=D
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  • Dia Griffiths 2 weeks ago
    I loved the ending. I didn't see it coming.
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  • ezwanda 1 week ago
    kooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Peter Eriksson 1 week ago
    Thanks for sharing. Great piece of art :-)
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