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Watch Dark Western Animated Short THE BACKWATER GOSPEL

by Al Young, February 16, 2011 2:09 PM


A team of eight talented students from Animation Workshop, a school in Denmark, brings a grim yet fresh visual style for their 2011's bachelor film project The Backwater Gospel. The short is reminiscent more of a horror flick rather than a western, seamlessly combining CG and flash animation with morbid character designs render in a cell-shaded illustration quality.
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.
Embedding the video is not allow so follow the Vimeo link below to view the 10-minute short.  Also check out two making-of videos and the official blogsite for extensive information on the production process.

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Hey everyone. Because Bo has put his animation up on Vimeo Plus it won't allow us to embed the video here. But please to the official site and follow the link there. It is well, well worth it.

http://vimeo.com/17914974

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Hey look, the video is now embeddable. The author must have changed the settings.

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This is beautiful stuff.


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