The Backwater Gospel
Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop.
As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails and tension builds as the God fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone to die.
See how they did it here: http://safegaard.com/movie/making-of-the-backwater-gospel/
The soundtrack has been released as a free EP, which can be found here: http://sonsofperdition.com/index.php?id=51.
By: Bo Mathorne, Tue T. Sørensen, Arthur Gil Larsen, Rie C. Nymand, Mads Simonsen, Thomas H. Grønlund, Esben Jacob Sloth, Martin Holm-Grevy
Bo Mathorne – Director
Arthur Gil Larsen – Animation Lead
Mads Simonsen – Technical director
Thomas Grønlund – Animator
Rie Nymand – Animator
Esben Sloth – Art Director
Martin Holm-Grevy – Environment lead
Tue Toft Sørensen – Animator
Music composed and performed by:
Sons of Perdition
Voice actors:
The Tramp: Zebulon Whatley
The Minister: Lucien Dodge
Bubba: Phillip Sacramento
Towns people: Laura Post
Supervisors:
Michelle Nardone – Production supervisor
Katrine Talks – Production supervisor
Jessie Roland – Animation supervisor
Christian Kuntz – Animatic supervisor
Patrick Voetberg – Editing supervisor
Sunit Parekh-Gaihede – CG supervisor
Jared Embley – Rigging supervisor
Thomas Christensen – Sound supervisor
Svend Nordby – Technical supervisor
Consultants:
Peter Albrechtsen – Sound design consultant
Michael Valeur – Story consultant
Andrew Harris – CG Consultant
Mads Juul – Animatic consultant
Saschka Unseld – 3D animatic consultant
Anna Kubik – 3D animatic consultant
Jericca Cleland – Story consultant
Marec Fritzinger – Design consultant
Tomm Moore – Design consultant
Lawrence Marvit – Design consultant
Niels Bach – Background consultant
Thanks to:
Lasse Niragira Rasmussen – Additional animation
Jeppe Bro Døcker – Additional animation
Morten Thorning – Moral guidance
Oliver Kirchhoff – Scripting
Those Poor Bastards – Inspiration
Robert Bennett – Voice work
Lostandtaken.com – Textures
Friends and family
@Horatio – I see. So you’d have no problem in a video depicting black folks eating watermelon, and fried chicken, with bones stuck through their noses? Or perhaps young girls who get pregnant for the explicit purpose of murdering their babies? Or perhaps Ghandi, or Martin Luther King, or some other beloved public figure cannibalizing their own followers? Pick the most important aspect of your life, check to see if it is typically maligned, and then maybe you’d have ground on which to stand.
WOW!!!
This reminds me of And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave. If you like this I really recommend reading that book.
@stegokitty It’s southern gothic, it’s supposed to be dark and grotesque stereotypes.
The animation is fabulous.
The story is sensationalistic, straw-man, bigoted nonsense.
The premise is reading the Bible, & fearing the Lord makes people into ignorant, self-presevering, psychopathic, murdering monsters.
I wonder if anyone in the viewing audience knows of such a person.
Or must they admit that, though the folks who follow after nutcases like the money-grubbing TV evangelists are the a-typical moron, the ones who actually study the Scriptures are honest, and generally kind people.
Saw this at AWA this year. Been looking for it everywhere, trying to remember what it was called.
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What the heck? This is like 5th time I’m watching this.
Love that… Good job, really!
Absolutely amazing. LOVE the animation style. Very interesting concept.
That……was……AWESOME!!!!
this is like a dark version of borderlands
Yoo good stuff.Well done.
wow
poor the old man singing…hes just minding his own business
That. Was. Amazing!!! So many emotions, it gave you so many things to think about. Terrified and mesmerized all at the same time. Beautifully done.
amazing but yet so very disturbing
that fucking sucked
Awesome.. yet sooo very disturbing..
A toast, to the destructive power of man’s idiocy and fear.
This is more Tim Burton than anything Tim Burton has done!
awsome film like the texture and 3d very well done it was really creepy in fullscreen clever ending
Screw Mortal Kombat
WELL IT AINT GONNA BE ME!!!!!!
Holy shiznit what a freakin’ awesome short! Nice work guys!