I recently started reading two 3D magazines called 3DArtist and 3D World, and in one of the issues for one of them, I discovered this amazing, awesome, hilarious and extremely well made short film!
The name of it is Pigeon Impossible and I'm sure you can guess what to expect generally from the fact that the title is a pun of the secret agent film series Mission Impossible.
The film was made by an animation student called Martell Animation and it's fronted by a man called Lucas Martell. On his Youtube account which can be seen via clicking the actual video above, he did a series of blogs leading through the production of the film including rigging the characters and other 3D modelling and animation tasks.
You get to see him working on the film over time and see how it became the final product as well as gain an insight into how he actually made the characters and so on.
The film is all about a secret agent who is pretty clumsy, accident prone and gullible (I think he was based on me!) and he gets tricked into going on a wild good chase to protect this hi-tech briefcase I think. The actual film is all about him eating a bagel and getting harassed by a bagel loving pidgeon who attacks him for it, getting trapped in the briefcase by accident and causes mass havoc whilst inside it using the inbuilt weaponry.
It's pretty amusing what happens and I loved the way the pidgeon interacted with the briefcase as well as the "Tom and Jerry" style battle he had with the secret agent. This film clocks in at about 6 minutes but I enjoyed it all the way through and happily will watch it plenty more times too. I believe it was just as good as a lot of feature films I've seen despite it's length, it's creator shows a hell of a lot of promise and seeing as the 3D animation industry is really taking off now as shown by Pixar, Sony Pictures and Dreamworks particularly, I have a feeling this guy is going to be big one day as well.
I subscribed to him and actually cannot wait for him to bring out another film, even though this one took many months to create! The humour in it reminded me of the other animation studios but also more like classic cartoons with the slapstick involved and also simplistic plot as well. The simplicity isn't a bad thing at all, it's perfect for a short film and it's common knowledge that people enjoy the simpler things in life more, I certainly do!
I seriously cannot recommend this film enough, I hope he actually does make money from this some how, I know it had a $10,000 budget on it roughly, so not to make any income at all would suck. If he doesn't though, I couldn't be any more sure in that this has opened many doors for him with plenty of prospects for him. It came out on 8th November this year and has racked up almost a million and a half views! I personally think it needs more attention but it's doing damned well regardless!
Watch this guy, he's going to be big! You only have to watch the film and you'll understand why, the film is an absolute gem and would love to have on DVD if it came at a price respective to it's length!
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