‘Penterghast’,
though a stand alone short, was originally created as
part of a feature film, ‘Every Picture’. The
feature is about a couple trapped in a haunted school,
the animation gives a little of the back-story on the
school.
It was always supposed to be a stylised 3 or 4 minute
piece using 2 dimensional backgrounds and 3 dimensional
characters. However when John Horabin took on the project
it took on a more unique life of it’s own, mixing
many different kinds of animation to give it its haunting
identity.
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Clare McKenna plays
the boy narrating the hideous story, her soft Irish accent
distorted to give a menacing but absorbing account of
the teacher’s fate. Of course sound and music play
a key role in animation to breath real life into the artificial
images. Zhe Wu and Rhett Brewer (designer and composer
respectively) created this creepy soundtrack in just a
few days once the animation was near enough complete.
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The film will be
submitted to many international film festivals, beginning
with Croatia, Russia, Slovakia and Portugal – watch
this space for details of screenings.
To get in touch, e-mail
me
here.
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