Background tests for OLD FANGS from the offical website

First time in over a decade I’ve followed anything that happened at Sundance. Perhaps the change in the the leadership there and their huge effort to provide free screenings of lots of festival content on YouTube and their site has made a difference. I know there was a thoughtful article in the New York Times today about “exploding the Indie film world” and starting over again (with lots of micro content published and distributed by the creators themselves). I think this bodes well for Machinima both as an art form and as an viable technique for professional animation. Only time will tell.

After watching many excellent short animated films at the Sundance site, this one (OLD FANGS, directed by Adrien Merigeau) has stayed with me and since the Sundance site offers the ability to embed the video, I thought I’d put it out there for the machinima community. It’s not machinima, but the quality of the story and the visual style is certainly something we can do in several different machinima engines. And the serious effort in creating a story with real feeling is impressive. Coupled with an excellent sound mix and very good acting and you have a truly excellent short animated film.

The director, Adrien Merigeau, has been blogging about the film for months now and there is a lot of excellent and interesting posts at the film’s official site. It’s worth the time to read through the entries.

I hope you like OLD FANGS as much as I do.