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"ShapeShifter" by Charlex
narration by Gabriel Byrne

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  • Kultnation plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful short!
  • Tom Lowe pro 1 year ago
    Bad. Ass.
  • Jeremy Cassidy 1 year ago
    Supremely creative with immaculate execution.

    However, I have a major problem with the content.

    It is curious how the violent and destructive car somehow has a life-giving power to regenerate the natural world. This mechanical nightmare beast leaps through the world and flowers bloom.
    Perverse.
    The concept of car depicted is the antithesis of life - it is the destroyer of anything close to delicate or subtle.

    A brutal object, sexed up. Hey, the Ministry of War could do with an eye like yours.

    Please be aware of the stories we are weaving. And what future - present we truly wish to inhabit.
  • Alex Weil 1 year ago
    It's just a dream, dude!
  • Splendor 1 year ago
    Analys is an overdriven fact, u don't need to analysed it to pieces, this is art! Honor the effort and beautifullness of this short.
    I'm in 3D animation also, it's hard work to get to this level.
  • Alex Weil 1 year ago
    Actually I was being overly sensitive to Jeremy's original criticism. His take on the piece (which by the way was not produced for a client) is pretty compelling.
    There has been interest expressed in the last week in making a movie based on Shapeshifter. Jeremy's point-of-view has given me food for thought and inspired my imagination for a possible storyline.
    One more thing though....Leni Riefenstahl was pretty damned evil and fully aware of her mission.
    I think of our work in ShapeShifter as more inspired by HR Giger than anyone else. Anyway, thanks everybody for your interest in what we created, intentionally or otherwise. AW
  • AKS9 1 year ago
    I don't think it's fair to say "it's just art, don't think about it". This attitude essentially devalues art.

    I think great art can be purely visual without any "message/story", but when we are presented with beautiful visual art with some strange/dysfunctional logic behind it, it's only right to question it.
  • Addison Hadfield 11 months ago
    A bit late to this discussion but a point I don't see mentioned here is that this video makes me think more about the cycle of life and the beauty of nature. Predator and prey is a part of that.

    My least favourite thing about it is the car's involvement as this obviously detracts from this. Although, a car manufacturer may argue otherwise.

    Beautiful CG nonetheless, well done.
  • Krystian Gwizdak 8 months ago
    Let's continue thinking about it. There is a theory, that all life that is on the earth came from the space. The connection of certain elements allowed them to develop themselves and so simply forms started appearing, evolving into more complex (from plants to animals). Here is the car, the symbol of our modern world, but maybe somewhere else, the parts that are unnatural in our world would let the animals and plants (the order of these appearing is different than on Earth) grow. Actually you see the animals here as robot like creatures, while plants are as ours. That might be the symbol of changing the unnatural materia into natural one, along with the time.

    On the other hand it might just be a dream or a meaningless vision of the artist :D

    Great CG!
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  • Will Wallace plus 1 year ago
    Whoa..
  • Igor Goduto 1 year ago
    Wow!
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  • Mallo Ryker 1 year ago
    Epic.
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  • Græm 1 year ago
    Sublime!
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  • paramon plus 1 year ago
    incredible work!
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  • Bellographix 1 year ago
    This is what I want to do! Beautifully done, meticulous animation and design!
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  • In sa ne!
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  • Salomon plus 1 year ago
    Freak!
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  • Abel Vargas plus 1 year ago
    Wow!
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  • Alex Hallajian plus 1 year ago
    So beautiful.
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  • Cory Reynolds plus 1 year ago
    Wow, amazing.
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  • Kenny Miracle 1 year ago
    absolutely stunning. period. please say there's a breakdown coming or at least a peak into how you did this.
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  • Joe Murphy 1 year ago
    Wow!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • xpez2000 1 year ago
    I enjoyed this work. Incredible details! The narration was very thought provoking.

    The two autos made me wonder if this was a car commercial.
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  • Byungchul Kang plus 1 year ago
    Ooooohhhhhhhhhhh!!! Awesome!!!!!!
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  • Leigh Atkins 1 year ago
    This should be an ad for Audi they play before the movies.
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  • Romeo Reidl 1 year ago
    awesome job, respect! I'll put it out to our news section: artistpub.hu
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  • Ceiga plus 1 year ago
    Amazing animation.
    Posted on ceiga.co.uk/blog/
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  • mpared plus 1 year ago
    mind blowing ..its up at the thecuriousbrain.com/ well done!
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  • Exocortex plus 1 year ago
    Can you explain how you made the various effects? It is really amazing.
  • gregory ecker plus 1 year ago
    the packages we used for FX were Realflow, Houdini and Maya. I was Lead FX TD on this job but I'm not at liberty to give a breakdown at this time. BTW very nice simulation stuff you've done Exocortex, I love your work.
  • mukesh jodhani 1 year ago
    can we know which app was used for particle FX, RF or houdini??
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  • Tony Zagoraios plus 1 year ago
    Awesome.///..
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  • very very cool!!
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  • Amazing work! We've put it on our blog…
    everythingvisual.net/?p=2946
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  • Laurens Neels 1 year ago
    Wooa.. insane!
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  • Gerald Mark Soto plus 1 year ago
    Rawr
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  • Director Kobayashi 1 year ago
    Nice... make me think about American Beauty...
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  • Cesar Kuriyama plus 1 year ago
    After all the hard work... Happy to see the world finally watch this!
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  • This is beautiful! I wanna second the request about the fx. how was it done? what packages used?

    Ansi
  • Charlex plus 1 year ago
    Thx! You can read more about the making of the project here: trustcollective.com/portfolio/content/charlex_shapeshifter.php
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  • Phil Bosco 1 year ago
    YES!!!!! Outstanding!
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  • Phil Fried plus 1 year ago
    respect!
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  • Ferruccio Muran 1 year ago
    Really Good Job man!
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  • Aleksandar Panov 1 year ago
    speechless...
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  • TonyC 1 year ago
    Fantastic
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  • Jesse Springer plus 1 year ago
    That sucked. Obviously you didn't put much time into this
    ;-)
  • Mandeep S. Mohar 1 year ago
    hahaha
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  • Rafael Santos plus 1 year ago
    Fantástico!!!
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  • Kasra Design plus 1 year ago
    Insane! ..thumbs up.
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  • PsTak 1 year ago
    Extraordinary! Houdini/Maya
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  • framel73 1 year ago
    Lovely!.
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  • Jordan Lloyd plus 1 year ago
    Sexy FX/particle work at the beginning.
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  • Gabriel Rocha plus 1 year ago
    Loved it!
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  • Tim Boydell plus 1 year ago
    its a wow from me
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  • Manuel F. Rugeles 1 year ago
    Fabulous!!
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  • Justin Bates plus 1 year ago
    Great work. Well done.
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  • 23L pro 1 year ago
    ACE guys!!!!
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  • Amazing, When I grow up I want to be like you.
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  • Schaumstoff 1 year ago
    I like your video very much.Thank you for the upload.
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  • Dwain Starks 1 year ago
    Oh My God! EPIC!!!
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  • 9North plus 1 year ago
    Technically and aesthetically gorgeous.
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  • Anjelkam 1 year ago
    Wow!! Dazzling!
    master cgi job!!
    Thanks for the upload, inspires me a lot.
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  • Rafael Saldaña 1 year ago
    Awesome work!! Somewhat when things grow when the characters pass by or touch something to hayao miyazaki's film "the princess Mononoke!".
  • cockney 1 year ago
    exactly ) nice allegory
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  • Christko 1 year ago
    Increíble! Excelente trabajo (incredible! Excellent work)
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  • Rocky McKoy 1 year ago
    Amazing!!! unbelievable!
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  • Toufik Mekbel 1 year ago
    incredible
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  • Mark Jacinto 1 year ago
    I was sure this was a Jaguar commercial. Incredible stuff.
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  • Jason Coursey plus 1 year ago
    speechless here too - AMAZING work.
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  • Edson Zerati, MD plus 1 year ago
    Porra meu...
    Muito louco cara !
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  • Essam Hiyari 1 year ago
    well I gotta say this.. some how it did move me..
    this is such a great work..
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  • Sandro Antonucci 1 year ago
    speechless, what was that for?
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  • rvlt™ 1 year ago
    CG Poetry :D, shared on blog.rvlt.tv
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  • Wow, I enjoyed every single frame of it!
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  • cockney 1 year ago
    beautiful stuff! kudos for a job well done )
    made me register with vimeo just to say how much i liked the clip. keep it up!
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  • Ariel Cabrera 1 year ago
    Awesome dude!!!!!
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  • P A L I S 1 year ago
    Simply amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it!
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  • Wii Yatani plus 1 year ago
    *picking up my jaw from the floor
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  • Paul Nison plus 1 year ago
    Better than a dream!
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  • Rico Cortes plus 1 year ago
    Worthy of 2 minutes during Superbowl!
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  • Julie & Richard 1 year ago
    Excellent animation/CGI. Something a car company like Jaguar should use.
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  • Emmanuel BERNARD 1 year ago
    ok.
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  • Kyle Hines 1 year ago
    amazing
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  • Satish Goda 1 year ago
    Awesomenessssssssssssssssssssssssss
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  • J.S.Ahn plus 1 year ago
    Oh my god~!
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  • Nereyda Pimentel 1 year ago
    Respect!
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  • Dominic Allen plus 1 year ago
    amazing.
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  • Joseph Dirrim 1 year ago
    Wow. Now THAT is cool!
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  • Erdem Varol 1 year ago
    thank you
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  • Debadas Mohanty 1 year ago
    Wow wow wow...
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  • Silverwing 1 year ago
    Wow this stuff is stunning.
    I´m deeply impressed.

    Congratulations to all ppl involved in this amazing piece!

    Cheers
    Silverwing
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  • Deepak Dhawan 1 year ago
    OOOOOOO my jaw just dropped...
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  • colorawesome 1 year ago
    Awesome!!!!!
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  • Andrew MAze 1 year ago
    This is a masterpiece. What's the music used in it?
  • Charlex plus 1 year ago
    It was an original score from our friends at Stimmung!
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  • stef 1 year ago
    So cool ! very impressive
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  • Ben Revens 1 year ago
    Utterly stunning...
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  • Jordan Cain 1 year ago
    Incredible work there. Loved it :)
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  • Mauro Misiewicz 1 year ago
    cool!
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  • Johannes Matsson 1 year ago
    Stunning, I love it! Really really well done
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