Happy New Year!
As it has been almost a year since I produced the first trailer for Black Sunrise, I decided to make up a second one to give everyone another peek at the progress.
I'm hoping this year to try to finish off a large chunk of the film. Presently, I have about 10 minutes fully completed. However, I'm still polishing a few sections of the storyboard. Writing for a feature-length film can be quite challenging, I've discovered - especially when you are dealing with no dialogue!
Also this year, I'm going to try to make up some tutorial videos since I get a lot of requests for them. I imagine I will be doing one on background painting, and animation process but if there is any particular thing you'd like to see, just let me know in the comments.
Anyway, here's the trailer. Hope you like it!
32 comments:
this is really outstanding! blazing a trail for all the other independent animators to do their own work free of studio control! kudos to you!
Thanks! You should win some kind of reward for fastest comment ever!
Wowww awesome!!! Looking forward to tutorial videos and of course this beautiful film itself- thanks for undertaking a feature, wow!!
Holy mother of God how long is it gunna be? It looks stunning.
Finally, a cartoon feature with no dialogue. This should be interesting considering most animated features these days are more dialogue and little animation. BTW, have you ever seen Mary and Max? It is really good.
Really excited about this movie!
The grandiose beauty!
Great.
Wow! Amazing!
Love trailer man, and yes would love to see tutorials! Althoug I can't imagine how you'll have time to do them! @_@
Amazing and really inspiring work!
Hey Nick, The trailer is simply outstanding! Looking forward to the completed version (and I'll bet you are too). Congrates.-Robin
Holy wow, this is both amazing and disturbing. The dead bunny sold it to me haha. Fantastic!
(Will it make to theaters or something?)
Thanks everybody!!
Beautiful trailer! Looks compelling. I hope you can finish it. Pretty ambitious!
Hey Nick, inspiring to see you doing this largely on your own. Tutorials on backgrounds and animation would be great. I'd also like to hear about your workflow and the stages of your production. Lookin forward to seeing more as it progress :).
Really great work Nick!
It would be awesome if you could share some of your animation process!
Really fantastic stuff, Nick. The quality of the visuals is something really astounding knowing that you're doing this 100% yourself! Very inspirational and while conventionally I would say "I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS ZOMG AWSUM!" -- I'm totally going to wait until you complete its magnificence and THEN go all fanboy
really great job, hope you could ask a question are you working all by yourself on the movie itself? Anyway, cheers!
Rocks, can't wait to see the finished product... so hurry up =)
NICK CROSS...we got it..and we got it in so many directions it's ridiculous .
INKST- ROKST- METEDST- HYSTE..what else do you want?
We'll give it to you heavier than HUMPAR.
And CROW and ROSS and SKYLARB- RICK is giving it like nobody ever gave it before.
EFCAR to RELOVA and VARIC.
ASCITE.
Such class.
And ASOCHER, even classier!
But ASETOR with BESSER and BEVOR in POONSTO and COCONS?
What will the billions of people say when they see half of HOLLYWOOD and WASHINGTON were with ZETAS and
" STARZ?"
I know what I'd say.
But I'll keep it " simple".
@Michelle Best comment ever! I couldn't have said it better myself!!
Wow, great.
When we can see a whole animation?
It will take a while still...
this is amazing ...!
i wish i could help out on the project, do you have any kickstarters account dedicated to black sunrise ? or any other fund raising/paypal account ? I'm sorry i just couldn't find the infos concerning that right away...
just keep it up, this is pretty darn perfect
I did have a fundraising drive early last year. I don't know if I'm going to do one again or not.
I'll be sure to announce it far and wide if I do though!
Thanks!
awesome how fluid your animations are!
cant wait for the whole thing.
as for your tutorial, i´d love to read something about your use of metaphors and storytelling.
it looks like a lot of scenes are constructed around some weird metaphors. it feels really deep.
how do you construct those scenes?
that would be really interesting, i guess!
cheers,
störie
I like everything but the blur. same problem with your past animations. please, stop using the blur effect. pleeeeeeease...
Is this the first movie in history to be animated by a single person? Has there been any others?
Nick you are amazing.
@ Ad : It's not the first movie by one man. there has been Killer Bean forever, Sita sings the Blues, the Thief and the Cobbler, Archon Defender, M Dot Strange's films.
However the number of people who succeeded is low, so it's going to be an awesome achievement when Black sunrise will be finished. Good luck, Nick!
"the Thief and the Cobbler" was not a one-man animation. Richard Williams had a complement of folks working for years on this film.
I am so wowed by what you are doing Nick. Keep on keepin' on!!!
-Doug
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