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AnimatorX
04-15-2009, 09:40 AM
Hey all. A long time ago, Bill & Sue Kroyer of Ferngully fame were busy trying to get another film made. One about detectives and voodoo and zombies..oh yeah! I'm sorry I don't have the full trailer, but I did find a short clip. It just proves animation can be made for adults ( or something more than a PG audience )

http://tinybun.com/arrowclip.swf
zanekohler
04-15-2009, 10:13 AM
Wow that looks pretty dang cool. thanks for sharing. would have been cool to see.
AnimatorX
04-15-2009, 10:47 AM
it kills me that movie was never made. *whimper*
lavallelee
04-15-2009, 11:23 AM
i liked it too, really nice animation
dmgctrl
04-15-2009, 11:45 AM
Yeah, looks like it would have been quite interesting. Pity.
WillW
04-18-2009, 06:15 AM
oh my goodness, he was beating up zombies with a severed arm from another zombie D: thats awsome.
N8Dogg5k
04-21-2009, 09:47 AM
Yeah, what a shame. The animation alone on the sequence looked rock solid.
AnimatorX
04-21-2009, 10:23 AM
It's both inspiring and sad to watch that clip. It's just one of many unrealized animation dreams. Incredible projects pitched by enthusiastic animators to people who just...don't...get it. I remember mentioning Arrow to a 20th fox executive as part of a pitch. I said "The film I want to pitch is more for adults, like this film Arrow from the Kroyers"

He looked at me oddly, then said "Adults don't like cartoons. We'd rather make family films. That kind of stuff will never appeal to an audience."

Damn short-sighted fools.
N8Dogg5k
04-21-2009, 01:45 PM
My sympathies to you Animator X.

Companies always seem to have a knack for dragging a vision through the mud. Their primary concern always seems to be about making what is "marketable" instead of what is inspirational or even just entertaining.

Because as much as you can have something that is marketable, it doesn't always mean that it will in fact be entertaining. I've seen many films that were marketable, and they just felt like chewing on a piece of cardboard... No flavor whatsoever. In fact it leaves a bad taste in my mouth after the fact.

I could list on and on which films/games/ etc. etc. those were, but I'd rather not...

It is so much more constructive to think about what could be done to inspire more, or entertain more out there than what has been done seemingly to just get in our wallets.