"Nightfall" by Stuttgart, Germany-based Valentin Schwind
"Nightfall" is an epic computer
generated sci-fi film by Valentin Schwind featuring music by Ivelina Nedyalkova. Incredibly, Schwind wrote and animated all seventeen thousand frames of the film entirely by himself, using 3DS Max 8, Combustion 4 and Premiere Pro. That one person could create a short this involved is almost unbelievable, especially at a run-time of eleven minutes and thirty seconds.
It would probably be wrong to call this a silent movie, but it could be described as a wordless one. Not a single word is spoken throughout the story, and rather than detracting from the film, it instead lends the piece a mesmerizing intensity.
There are numerous influences at work in "Nightfall," from with the ring world that seems to have been drawn from Larry Niven's cannon to the Battlestar Galactica-inspired starships. The final product is entirely original, though.
In it, a huge ring world, powered by an artificial sun comes under siege by a dark lord who has fallen hopelessly in love the system's benign queen. The battle that ensues carries the weight of the conclusion of some greater epic, and it's difficult, as a viewer, not to let one's imagination get carried away with the possible scenarios that lead up to the film.
It would probably be wrong to call this a silent movie, but it could be described as a wordless one. Not a single word is spoken throughout the story, and rather than detracting from the film, it instead lends the piece a mesmerizing intensity.
There are numerous influences at work in "Nightfall," from with the ring world that seems to have been drawn from Larry Niven's cannon to the Battlestar Galactica-inspired starships. The final product is entirely original, though.
In it, a huge ring world, powered by an artificial sun comes under siege by a dark lord who has fallen hopelessly in love the system's benign queen. The battle that ensues carries the weight of the conclusion of some greater epic, and it's difficult, as a viewer, not to let one's imagination get carried away with the possible scenarios that lead up to the film.
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