Last Chance - The Movie

New Orleans Film Festival

snikki — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:13:07 +0000

Good Morning,
Just received word that Last Chance will be screened at the 2010 New Orleans film fest. Good news! That’s about all that’s happened this week.

The first review we got.

snikki — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:16:51 +0000

Here’s something the good Mario Celestino sent us:

Super imagery and poignant storytelling. The piano creates an ominous tone poem for the oft-distressing surreal animated portraits of life as we knew it and how our planet’s delicate ecosystem, clearly on a collision course with mankind since the machine-age, seems to be pleading with us, heralding a sad reality of the future while simultaneously challenging corrective measures to allow the earth a “last chance” for another tomorrow. We already sense the truth yet third-eye-blindness is all too convenient. One wonders whether the earth must become silent before man can hear its cry. Obviously, that would be too late. Last chance, for sure!

Another review from kabytes.com

snikki — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:54:23 +0000

Getting to do alot of translating today. Here’s a review from kabytes.com. Gracias.

Una maravilla del digital painting, llena de contrastes de color y espacios imaginarios. Llama a la reflexión como si la propia tierra estuviera pidiendo auxilio.

A marvel of a a digital painting. An flood of imagination and contrasting colors. A fiery reflection of a world requesting aid.

Review from guru63.com

snikki — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:42:32 +0000

Here’s a really nice review from Guru63.com. In true self centered artist fashion, negative reviews will be discarded

Last Chance un bellissimo video per salvare il pianeta:
Una meraviglia questo video, un filmato pieno di colori e contrasti a volte forti a volte soavi, dove la terra sembra chiedere aiuto e soccorso..

My foreign is a little rusty but loosely translated to:
Last Chance, a beautiful film about saving the planet.
A wonderful film, full of color and alternating gentle and strong contrasts. The earth seems to repeatedly ask for aid.

Reel Earth Film Festival May 22nd –

snikki — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:45:54 +0000

Last Chance at the Reel Earth Film Festival in New Zealand! See you there!

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

Some background information

snikki — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:14:54 +0000

Last Chance started out as three pencil drawings. The Comet, the Trees leaving and the Dancing Lady. They were the key scenes and became the first storyboard panels.

The animation ended up with 27 paintings in the end. At least that’s what they’re supposed to be, moving paintings. The idea was to make something “impressionistic”, where the first glimpse of the painting contains all the information.

The story is intentionally on the darker side. We start of with a brief heavenly glimpse, Shipibo patterns of the Amazon, and then it’s all downhill from there. Only towards the end when all options have been exhausted are we allowed to fly again.

Anyway, here are the original three drawings that started the whole thing.

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

Festivals! Yeah!!!

snikki — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:45:18 +0000

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

Last Chance – The Movie

snikki — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:18:46 +0000

Here is the online version of Last Chance. The High-Def version will be available at festivals and other screenings.

Vimeo Page:

Youtube Page:

Computerized paint strokes

snikki — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:58:50 +0000

Here’s some old R&D renders. This one shows an individual paint stroke. First flat, then displaced and finally with highlights. The idea was to have different paint pigments, some metallic etc. based on the actual “tube” they came from – but as usual, I didn’t have time for that.
The rendering doesn’t do paint mixing anyway so it wouldn’t have been worth it.

The last image shows the same stroke repeated – so it’s a little boring. What’s noteworthy is the curving of the strokes which gives some neat effects, especially on animated objects.

This image shows the preview options available when constructing the image. Points, lines, sprites and strokes. This helps in constructing the image – the density can be visualized with Points, the direction and lenght with Lines. Finally the Strokes show how the render will look – although without the canvas.

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

And we’re done

snikki — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:47:07 +0000

That’s it. All done. Last Chance was completed on Dec 22nd 2009. Haven’t been online much after that.
We’re submitting it to festivals now – so stay tuned for screening news. If the festivals don’t pick it up, then we’ll host it ourselves online. So either way – it’ll be screened soon.

From Smedlipotski on Flickr.