IDIOTS from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.

It’s not a secret we love robots here at BLR, so we wanted them to be the heroes in our latest promo clip. Luxury cars with powerful engines to drive through roads under severe speed restrictions, cable TV that allows us to pay to watch all kind of sports, all from our comfortable sofa, and of course, hyper expensive cell phones that do almost everything but making a decent phone call.

Yes, our happiness is based on things we don’t need and governed by entities we don’t control, so what? Sit down and turn on the tv!

The robots were taken from real Japanese robot model kits, and they now hold a privileged position in our freak museum. The bad guy spits real smoke out of its mouth! The environment is made of cardboard houses that were integrated with the help of camera tweaks. It all serves to the purpose of creating a dumb homogeneous atmosphere in which we’re defined by what we’ve got, that is, the same lame things.

Don’t take the message too seriously. This is a promo video we’ve done to laugh at ourselves. We all have an i-diot inside, and it’s so fun!

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A tale by Big Lazy Robot VFX
Music and sound design by Full Basstards

The Comic King of Guatemala from George Clipp on Vimeo.

A carload of comics head from the U.S to Guatemala, a dream or a disaster?

This documentary takes a look at Guatemala’s first ever comic book shop, offering an insight into its impact on the community.


Awards:

Best Documentary Award Winner - Phoenix Comicon Film Festival, 2013 (U.S.A)
Best Documentary Award Nominee - St Kilda Film Festival, 2013 (Australia)
Best Short Documentary Award Nominee - Endeavours Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (Singapore)

Screenings:

St Kilda Film Festival, 2013 (Australia)
Comic-Con International Film Festival, 2013 (U.S.A)
Raindance Film Festival, 2013 (U.K)
Access All Areas Film Festival, 2013/4 [Touring Festival] (Australia)
Boston Comicon, 2013 (U.S.A)
Canberra Short Film Festival, 2013 (Australia)
ClujShorts Film Festival, 2014 (Romania)
Electric Lantern Film Festival, 2013 (U.K)
Festival Ícaro, 2013 (Guatemala)
Heart of Gold Film Festival, 2013 (Australia)
International Animated Documentary Film Festival, 2013 (Italy)
International Random Film Festival, 2013 (Sweden)
Kids Comic Con, 2013 (U.S.A)
Oz Comic Con, 2013 (Australia)
Phoenix Comicon Film Festival, 2013 (U.S.A)
ProFiRe Short Film Festival, 2013 (U.K)
Purbeck Film Festival, 2013 (U.K)
Reel Heroes Film Festival, 2013 (U.S.A)
Regent Park Film Festival, 2013 (Canada)
Three One Six Oh! Film Festival, 2013 (Australia)
United Nations Association Film Festival, 2013 (U.S.A)
Comics and the Multimodal World Conference, 2013 (Canada)
Kids Read Comics! Convention, 2013 (U.S.A)
International Comic Arts Forum, 2013 (U.S.A)
International Comics and Graphic Novel Conference, 2013 (U.K)

Credits:

Directed by: George Clipp & Jonathan Barnes
Produced by: George Clipp & Matthew Cleaves
Illustrations and Animations by: Sebastian Fowler
Sound by: Sasha Zastavnikovic
Translations by: Diana Pilar

2013 | Documentary | 10 mins
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