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"A More Ancient Spring" | Early Patreon Version.

Added 2021-11-22 13:02:59 +0000 UTC

Here we finally have the third film of Dinosauria Animated Series! :D

This was a really tough film to make but I'm really happy with how it turned out. I'm particularly proud of the atmosphere and visuals on display, and I think it might just be the prettiest film I've ever made! The backdrops are certainly the most detailed I've ever produced for a short film and I don't think I've ever been this ambitious with my colour-use before either.

This film paints a serene and gorgeous but bittersweet world that I'm really, really proud of! ^_^

I know this film won't be everyone's cup of tea because it is a little more fantastical than the rest of the series.

I think most of the animals featured in this film act very believably and there's a lot of very realistic courting behaviour here. A lot of which can be backed up by trace fossil evidence (which I'll cover in the upcoming "Making Of" video). But this film has a lot of blatantly unreal elements as well with a metaphorical fog representing the limits of our main character's world, a HIGHLY personified main character at that, and a general film-making that suggests a much more heightened reality than the previous two films.

I personally love it for all these elements though! :D

This film was conceived as a fantastical and surreal minimalist love story and after its EXTREMEMLY troubled 11 month production, I'm glad to see some of its original DNA is still in there! ^_^

Music Used:

"This Too Shall Pass" - Scott Buckley.

https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/