Check out this elaborate animation short by the Blackheart Gang, who are a South African collective of artists, designers and animators living in Cape Town. The intricate details and delicately hand drawn and CGI rendered images of the film evoke a singular baroque romance populated with gothic modern and vintage characters. A warbling opera chorus narrates a harrowing tale of how the singing stork-like pacifists were terrorized by Otto, a monstrous black octopus. An eerie, and utterly original animated short!

They describe themselves in their own words: “Ree is a illustrator with red hair, freckles and braces; she also has a very short temper, a ticking time bomb of sorts. Markus is determined and strong, his heavy noble brow is set under a constant frown, he makes music and writes. Jannes takes all of Ree and Markus’ bits and pieces and makes them real.”

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To read more on The Blackheart Gang, visit: http://theblackheartgang.com/

via Sylvia Adams, 15 August 2008 1:06am | |