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yes i agree makes the mood

When the music kicked it also reminded me of Pink Floyd!

Great video!

Absolutely. Even though the artwork is original, I could see it being a Floyd movie too. Something about the look of the pilot.

When Matt Kaip was making the score for this, I told him that I was heavily inspired by:
1) Sigur Rós
2) Pink Floyd
3) Cliff Martinez
I don't know if he was familiar with Sigur Rós or Cliff Martinez, but the Dark Side of the Moon feel definitely came through in the score, I think.

i also thought of Pink Floyd as i watch this great video. very nice work!

I used mostly Flash for the 2D Animation, and a little bit of 3D Studio Max for a couple elements. The compositing was done in After Effects.

Thanks for the feedback!

freesound.org/ is awesome. It's a great tool for animators. I actually heard about FreeSound by watching the credits in Alfonso Cuarón's 'Children of Men'.

I mainly used Flash to animate, but After Effects was used for compositing.

I haven't seen the original Heavy Metal film as a whole yet, only a few snippets. I have seen Heavy Metal 2000 though..
I always loved the fighter pilots and bombers in Kevin Altieri & Todd McFarlane's 'Do The Evolution'. I was definetely inspired in part by that music video.

You should TOTALLY see the original Heavy Metal. It was a great inspiration to me as a film maker!

Thanks, I think so too! Don't you think the profile of an Oak tree sort of looks like an a-bomb mushroom cloud?

Yea, it definitely does. How sinister of Mother Nature! :P

My core idea was to have seeds hit the earth and have trees explode out of the them. I just took that idea and went to town with it. I spent lots of time drawing layouts to create interesting compositions with the trees and ruins.
During the storyboard process I began to discover some of the archetypes that existed in my events/story/setting, so I made a conscious decision to really push what I found. One example of this was the raven. In first-nations (American-Indian) mythology, the raven is seen as a trickster and creator, so I tried framing him with the bomber to draw a parallel between them.
I really thought a lot about the difference between creation and destruction, and ways in which I could represent that contrast on screen.
The rest of the time, I spent animating in Flash, makin' them trees go BOOM.

Have you ever tried to? If you never practice, how do you expect to be great at something?You are just, born with it - if you want to animate like this, practice animating like this. He's been doing it for years!

Man, you should take a moment to reflect before you post a comment. The message is quite simple. So try it again by watching it; for best results I recommend to use your brain! I hope you make some progress.

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