Codehunters: capsule anime by Ben Hibon.
Today on Boing Boing tv: Codehunters, a short animé film by UK-based director Ben Hibon of stateless films, produced with London-based Blinkink. From the introduction:
The port city of Lhek is on the brink of collapse. A Pacific Rim state in a not too distant Asian future with no borders, no meaningful government and little law and order.Corruption and crime are out of control in the dark alleys of Eda, Lhek’s slum district. Most sectors of the city are controlled by the army of dictator Khaan. The most underprivileged parts of the city are infested with dark Demons, ferocious creatures that spread fear and death amongst the city’s inhabitants. Rumor has it that the Demons are controlled by Khaan in order to keep his people in check.
Since Khaan came into power his supremacy had been challenged by a single dissenter, a man named Krai. This man was a renowned “Coder”; one of the last survivors of a supreme race possessing the ability to manipulate DNA, the code of life. Krai was the only person with the power to challenge Khaan’s rule of terror. As his wrath turned against Khaan, Krai became the people’s hero, a symbol of rebellion and freedom.
For seven decades, the ruler hunted him down ferociously. Krai was finally captured and executed, his body cut into seven parts. Ever since, stories have spread that his remains resisted cremation and that Khaan was forced to keep them hidden. The seven remains were to be scattered across Asia never to be re-assembled .
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Saw this quite some time ago and was hoping there'd be more out but haven't seen any, maybe that was it. Great stuff.... make more !!
That was excellent.
Very very nice indeed.
It reminded me quite a lot of the scene where they ambush the train in Iain M Banks' "Against a Dark Background".
I can't wait to see more.
BTW, the whole clip is on Youtube if you search "Code Hunters."
wow that was really stylized and excellent CG. i see they did the crysis intro too, that was awesome as well. i wish there were more things in the industry like this. i dont think i would call it an anime film, as that sounds misleading to the style that it is.