Starring Max Records from "Where The Wild Things Are".
Cinematography by Macgregor
Music by Olafur Arnalds courtesy of Erased Tapes
Funded by Bord Scannan na hEireann / Irish film Board
Budget was 45k euro - for the shoot. Visual effects budget was a grand total of zeeero. I designed Blinky, modeled him in 3D and played both the his voice and the body mocap performance. And did most of the VFX. Thankfully all footage of me in the skintight mocap suit has been permanently destroyed.
Visual effects were completed over a period of 9 months, of hell. There's a reason why you don't see too many wet CG characters in movies even with 100 million dollar budgets. It's really, really hard.
DIRECTOR Rob Shaw
ANIMATION STUDIO Bent Image Lab bentimagelab.com
MUSIC BY They Might Be Giants
For this music video, Rob Shaw took his robot minions quite seriously. In an early section of the video you'll notice soldier robots popping out of paper sheets and folding themselves into three dimensional shapes. This was actually how each robot was made. Rob Shaw created a design with which he could print out paper cut outs of each robot, which would then be folded into the characters.
Known for his character animation, Shaw used an all paper set and cast of characters in a combination of techniques to create this robot-ruled Rome. You'll notice that many shots were created using 2D techniques, while others utilized 3D paper puppets.
Rob Shaw's music video for the They Might Be Giants song, "I'm Impressed" won a gold plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival.
An experiment of DIY stop-motion animation telling the story of BMAN, a little naive robot dragged by chance in to the dark and scary world of the radio.
Will our hero find his way back home?
Director / Dp / Editor: Francesco Calabrese
Story: Francesco Boerio, Francesco Calabrese, N.A.M.B.
Storyboard artist: Fabio Tonetto
Animation: Francesco Boerio, Fabio Tonetto
Compositing: Fabrizio Bonaga
Set Design & Puppets: Francesco Boerio
Sound design: G.U.P. Alcaro
Bman Design: maq4ka
Label: Monotreme Records (UK)
