Festival Selections
Wasteland Film Festival 2021- best animated film
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
FilmQUEST Film FESTIVAL 2021
Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2020
Scare-A-Con Film Festival 2020
Kuandu International Animation Festival 2020
Hollywood Horrorfest - Finalist
Sacremento horror film festival
Music by THE GENTLE MEN
Story and lyrics by CHARLIE WHITE
Music written, performed and Produced by TROY McKUBRE
a SAKOWSKI STUDIOS animation
Screenplay, produced, directed, animated, and composited by ALEKSANDER SAKOWSKI
Lead illustrator LINHAN YE
Human characters DANIEL ZHANG
Additional backgrounds by YEN LEE and THAW NAING
Additional animation by SIMON CRANE and DANE JACOBS
Thanks to Matt Haworth, Haku Milua, Karl Willis and RTFX
shot GALLERY
production stills
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STORYBOARD - LAYOUT - FINAL COMP PROGRESSION
Directors Statement
If the futures from the Matrix and the Terminator had a nineties anime love child, Skynut is it.
The Skynut video is a collaboration between The Gentle Men (Cr1TiKaL - Penguinz0 and Troy McKubre - Solstate) and Sakowski Studios.
The Gentle Men’s outrageous take on humanities fate required a cunning visual execution. While the animation style throws you into a 2D neon apocalypse the narrative is left to lurk in the depths of your subconscious.
Rejoining forces with Linhan Ye (Atheums Way), we started the animation as a two man team eventually expanding to a small but talented skeleton crew. Skynut is designed to maximise the limits of motion comic techniques using a combination of limited-frame character art, epic volumetric backgrounds and slick motion graphic compositing showered in cyber-neon cinematography.
A love letter to the legendary animes of the last three decades, Skynut is a homage to the likes of Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Ninja Scroll, Samurai Champloo and The Animatrix to name a few; Combining all your anime war-porn fantasies into one epic audio-visual fuck fest.
