Welcome to the new Sakowski Studios by Aleks Sakowski

Sakowski Studios has had a much needed website update. With new content and a new cleaner layout that works across all devices. It's been a busy month, with attending the Canadian Film Festival in Vancouver,  visiting Zoic Studios, presenting at Chromacon arts festival and finishing up the Making of Atheum's Way, I can finally move on to the next project!

Black Raven will soon be coming to the end of its festival circuit with a trail of awards behind it. Taking over from Black Raven will be Atheum's Way. After many hours of work I have launched our making of page.  Click on the image to go to our new page. 

What next? Well after spending some considerable time working on Atheum's Way I have decided that its time to focus on my own films. I have a short, high-concept Sci-Fi script that I have written titled "Black Box" which will be my next film project. On top of this I recently got the final ingredient I needed to write my first feature script. This script is part of my Mecha Genesis Saga and will probably take some time to develop, but the ingredients are there and the chef is working on it. 

I also plan to complete my 100 characters. I'm up to 60 right now and will soon be making more, revising the story, and hopefully publishing some copies in the future. All in the mean time I have been working at Mukpuddy Animation compositing their new animated TV show and watching all the entires flow in from across the globe to our festival The Vision Feast. 

Thanks to all those in the past few months who have helped me get this far; my parents, my patient girlfriend who waited as I said "this tweak will only take 10 minutes" a million times - Love you bae. To all the artists who have contributed to these recent projects, Troy, Linhan, Liam, Loic, Jesse and James, I thank you, as Sakowski Studios is not just me, It's a whole team of people helping helping manifest my visions; and there are plenty of vision to come. 

Aleksander

Atheum's Way by Aleks Sakowski

A father must confront an eternal storm to reunite with his daughter, and learn that man must tame his past before he conquers his future.

Made by 2 people over the course of 1 year, Atheum's Way is an animated music video by New Zealand based production house Sakowski Studios, to the music of Solstate. Directed, composited and animated by Aleksander Sakowski, illustrated by Linhan Ye, music by Troy Mckubre.

The eternal storm in Atheum's Way is representative of the hardest challenges we face in life. One can not wait for the storm to pass, because there will always be another brewing. Facing those challenges teaches us the most about ourselves, and in the last leg of our journey we will face our greatest obstacles.

The machine serpent is a reflection of this ultimate challenge. Generations ago, these man made monsters were created as tools of war; after we lost control of them they became their own masters. Now after years of battles and navigating the oceans, this one has lost its eyes and attacks anything that crosses its path. If our most advanced machines are guided to war, would it be no surprise that once they are intelligent, war is all they will know? Humans have trouble showing empathy for their own kind let alone other thinking creatures, and machines are a reflection of us. If we create them in the name of war, war is what we will receive. The father must confront this challenge, and tame the blind beast.

Thanks to Liam Williams, Loic Yearbury, James Aldous and Jesse Meha for lending a hand when things got heavy, and special thanks to Troy Mckubre for his insurmountable patience.

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