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Codehunters

Monday 03 Jul 2006

Director Ben Hibon turned to Axis Animation for help in bringing his animation for MTV to life in 3D. The result is the stunning short film Codehunters.

border=0 /><BR></div> </p> <p> I wanted to make something with a different style and feel: a warm, textured, original animated universe,” says director Ben Hibon of his latest creation, an actionpacked animated short film entitled Codehunters. </p> <p> First shown as a prologue to the MTV Asia Music Awards in Bangkok in May, Codehunters tells the story of Lhek, a crumbling city in the near future ruled by the merciless tyrant Khann. Four iconic hero characters, Shen, Lawan, Zom and Nhi, join forces to battle corrupt gangs, dirty cops, and rampaging monsters to overthrow the evil Khann, and along the way encounter the mysterious figure Krai. </p> <p> Written, storyboarded, and directed by Hibon and produced by Bart Yates at Blinkink Productions, Codehunters was created in 3D by Glasgow animation studio Axis Animation. </p> <p> “CG was always the preferred route for Codehunters, for both artistic and technical reasons,” explains Hibon. “But I wanted to make the CG feel textured and warm, like an inked illustration on paper. I also wanted to approach the animation style differently, by applying 2D techniques to CG. </p> <p> “Instead of motion capture or photo-realism, I wanted to work with stylized motions, key frames, and parallaxes. Axis understood and delivered that brilliantly. You can stop the film at any frame, and get a cool illustration... that’s a great result!” </p> <p> Originally conceived as a series for MTV, the brief for Codehunters changed to become a branding package for the MTV Asia Awards. </p> <p> <div class=inlineimage><img src=@digital_arts on Twitter.


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border=0 /><BR></div> </p> <p> <h2>East meets West</h2> </p> <p> “I used to watch a lot of Japanese animation on TV when I was a kid… the cheap programs bought by European TV channels in the early 80s. I’m also a big fan of European graphic-novelists like Bilal, Moebius, Mattoti or Liberatore. </p> <p> I think my inspiration lies there, between the more illustrative Western culture and the moving graphical style in the East. Codehunters is an accumulation of those ideas, where characters and worlds are not so culturally defined; it lives inbetween genres and styles,” says Ben Hibon. </p> <p> <div class=inlineimage><img src=

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