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A Broken Balance
Our new animated shortfilm 'CYCLE' illustrates how life, represented in energy form gets transferred and absorbed from prey to predator. The death of one animal is the life force for another. This natural flow of energy forms a balanced, harmonious system. A system that gets threatened by the biggest, most unsustainable predator of them all..
For this project VoxelWolves teamed up with a bunch of talent (see full credits at the bottom of the page). Big big thanks to everyone that was involved to make our second short film a reality!
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CREDITS*
Studio Project
Direction, Design & Production: VoxelWolves
3D: Rafael Vicente (Lead), Diogo Assis, Adriana Lages
Storyboard & Compositing: Arjen van der Wal
Rigging: Sebastião Lopes, Carolina Conceição
Animation: Joana Correia, Teresa Cruz, Carolina Conceição
FX: Ilya Lindberg, Diogo Assis
Special Thanks To: David Mourato, Dan Zucco, Patrícia Vieira
Music Production & Sound Design: Box of Toys Audio
Storyboard & Compositing: Arjen van der Wal
Rigging: Sebastião Lopes, Carolina Conceição
Animation: Joana Correia, Teresa Cruz, Carolina Conceição
FX: Ilya Lindberg, Diogo Assis
Special Thanks To: David Mourato, Dan Zucco, Patrícia Vieira
Music Production & Sound Design: Box of Toys Audio
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