In conjunction with that most marvellous of journals 2000AD, we challenged filmmakers and animators to bring to life a Futureshock story.
‘Tharg’s Future Shocks’ are one of 2000 AD’s longest running series, having appeared in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic on a regular basis since Prog 25, way back in August 1977, and still featuring in large numbers over 26 years later.
Future Shocks have
been written and drawn for 2000 AD by some of the world’s biggest comics
creators - indeed many of them started their careers writing them. Legendary comics
writer Alan Moore (Watchmen, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
was responsible for a huge amount of the early Future Shocks, and other now big
name writers who followed him include Neil Gaiman (Sandman, 1602),
Grant Morrison (New X-Men, The Invisibles) and Mark Millar (The
Ultimates, The Authority).
Whether the entry was on MiniDV, using After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop
or use Flash, entrants were asked to create a film from the chosen story. This
involved scripting, casting or character development,
set and/or background design, filming and/or animating,
editing, adding sound and effects,
titling and finally outputting. A lot of work indeed, so we gave them a few months.
After much deliberating, beer drinking and general froing and tooing, we have 3 winners.
1st Place
- "Shaping of Things" by Too Many Monkeys
2nd Place - "Holed up" by Ian Wheeler
3rd Place - "The Petition" by John Le Brocq
Congratulations to all who took part, there was some excellent work submitted. Thanks to 2000AD and all the sponsors.
To download the winning films click the links below:
Shaping
of Things
by Too Many Monkeys
Holed
up
by Ian Wheeler
The
Petition
by John Le Brocq
These files are AVI and WMV and vary in quality and size. You will need Real or Windows Media Player
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