Animated Short by Barna Nemethi
Primal Hunt
A clash of Roman soldiers with fantasy and witty Dacians, this project captured us from the very beginning with its backstory – which contains the allegory of modern society spending too much time looking at the screens.
Technically, a very demanding project, animated in Blender and assembled in Unreal Engine, pushed our team to the limits.
Add plenty of fights, imaginary characters, and glorious wolves + fires, smokes, fog, explosions, blood… oh my – you get the point.
Art director Dejan Mijatović and illustrator Damir Omić were tasked to imagine the complex word director put in front of us.
Finding a fine balance between the realistic Roman army and the fantasy world of old Dacians, and merging hand-painted concepts over the 3D world was a very challenging process. Having no color to play with, made it even harder.
If you expect to read more nice words, search somewhere else – to make a complex work like this is not an easy task, and all the artists involved have a love-hate relationship with the best projects they worked on.
Love – because they work on a worthy and demanding project like this.
Hate – because they work on a worthy and demanding project like this.
We salute that.
Enjoy more artwork and see you at the festivals.
Director: Barna Nemethi
Script: Barna Nemethi
Producer: Radu Stancu
Art design: Dejan Mijatović
Character design: Dejan Mijatović
Animation supervision: Mladen Đukić
Technical supervision: Nemanja Vučenović
Storyboard/animatic: Igor Đurić, Tamara Bogovac
Moodboards: Damir Omić
Set design: Slobodan Škobić, Igor Đurić, Dragana Purković Macan, Damir Omić
Modeling: Dejan Mijatović, Damir Omić, Goran Zec, Kenan Destanović, Davor Tinterević
Texturing: Dejan Mijatović, Damir Omić, Tamara Maksimović, Sandra Marić
Rigging: David Rodriguez
Animation: Mladen Đukić, Igor Đurić, Sandra Marić, Tamara Maksimović, Matic Perčić, Nemanja Vučenović, Mladen Kević, Fedor Marić, Ana Jelić, Rustem Leto, Lucija Oroz
Unreal Engine TDs: Nemanja Vučenović, Aleksandar Bundalo, Slobodan Škobić
VFX: Nemanja Vučenović, Slobodan Škobić
Light artist: Mladen Đukić, Aleksandar Bundalo
Production coordinator: Bojana Pavić
Line producer: Mladen Đukić
