'Bluntspear at the Film Festivals'. Sounds more epic than it is.

Few updates on the Festival front for my films Red Man and Merchants Of Quietus. An all around good look methinks. Both films will be at the Portobello Film Festival and Red Man will also be at Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

© 2014 Dulani Wilson. "Red Man" in the Aesthetica Short Film Festival's Official Selection.

© 2014 Dulani Wilson. "Merchants Of Quietus" in the Portobello Film Festival's Official Selection.

© 2014 Dulani Wilson. "Red Man" in the Portobello Film Festival's Official Selection.

Currently been busy with a few stuff, hence the radio silence. But hoping to launch a few new projects come September.

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Great and sad times we living in. Just never compromise. Too many people change for the worse just to conform. Bleh.

bluntspear.co.uk: Showreel MMXIV

Been a busy January. Even I'd admit that. So Happy Super Awesomely Late New Years to you. Managed to get my portfolio updated whilst working on Red Man and finishing up some contracts for PIM and blueprint.tv. View it on Vimeo, or just go here to see it all:
www.bluntspear.co.uk


Dulani Wilson's Showreel MMXIV from Dulani Wilson on Vimeo.

Stay tuned Super friends,

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Ms. Moneypenny, you can send them in now.

Red Man Artwork

Thespians! Red Man FB page is live. Check out some of the taster images that have been hitting people square in the face over there on www.facebook.com/redmananimation:

©2013 Red Man "Something Wicked" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "My Voice" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "Alarums 1" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "Alarums 2" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

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Currently doing the last of the frames now. Happy days. Macbeth our bloody tyrant would be pleased.

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Sectioned and quartered

Something Wicked This Way Comes...

© 2013 "Red Man: Something Wicked This Way Comes" social media title card. Art by Dulani Wilson. All Rights Reserved.

Follow the true terrible tyrant to triumph. www.facebook.com/redmananimation .

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Fine. Let's start the carnage. #redman #somethingwickedthiswaycomes #mandesperate #kingdefiant #herotragic #forscotland

Guillotine Swizzord Move!

This is it. Hamburger Hill. Half a banana clip that you got the GTA way. RedMan frames are being completed piece by piece. This is despite trying to keep on top of producing a short film. Which is annoying to say the least. Like tending to numerous bushfires at once. But it'll eventually get done. February 15th people! Mark it to death.

Meanwhile deep in the super-secret lair of the Villainous Vagabond, the #animationvagrant concocts another dubious plan for... yeah yeah, check out a frame I did for RedMan:

© 2013 'MacDuff Swings' Red Man frame. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved.

Til next time kid.

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Peace. We out.

Redman and other campaigns of terror

Hey gang,
One of those weeks where I am faced with numerous things to do and I am trying to block and tackle it all. #prioritise man! Any who, taking a quick break Redman frames (yep, still working on that) and though I'd say whats good. Check out a frame I churned out last night:

© 2012-2013 'Macbeth Flag Plant' frame. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved.

Also working on Merchants of Quietus, a short film. Before I was planning to make it a promo film for Lazarus Rising like I did with Black Box.... which is at 20,000+ views on YouTube right now! But after consideration I decided to make it into a film in its own right. The ending's change.... and a lot better if you ask me. Meeting D.O.P Stil to discuss sometime tomorrow hopefully. Meanwhile just working on the script and finalising it and storyboards and getting them printed. Finally got cartridges for the printer. It's been awhile you goddess of duplication.

More on that in the coming week.

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The Body Count Rises...
http://lazarusrisingfilm.com/2013/01/08/20000strongblackbox/

When work trickles rather than pours on...

...is annoying but you know its a prelude of good things to come. Yesterday, I met up with my brother in arms Remi King to start the edit for the Stak video. Might need to get more area shots but the initial edit is on its way and its looking very promising. Also will be putting my hands into the motion graphics pot. The Red Man animation I have been working on has had me using tools I usually don't using in AE. Which is a good thing. Thats what happens when you are self taught. If you have found a way of doing something, your not quite eager to learn much else. But once the learning process is carried, usually through forced necessity, you remember exactly why you love what you do. It's weird I know. I think its the bad 3D nightmares of old that left me frustrated after hours of modelling, rendering and double vision.

Red Man is coming along. Slowly. Exported a few animated clips and about to put them on the timeline. See how it all looks. Here are some illustrations/framework I've done in the past week. I know I said I wouldn't post anything Red Man related until I got a bulk of it done, but I've been so diligent, I don't think posting one or two things will mess with my work feng shui. Simple ish:

Also been working on a logo for music group 'Heroine Highrise'. First logo, was ok, but too funky.

Second one's not done, still working on it. Need to get my ass in gear. As it stands:

Yeah, I know, get to work punk!
 'Til then super-friends...

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Got an unexpected text. Now I am amped. Back on my Ronin ish!
Oo, yeah, Harbinger is coming!  Like the book on Facebook or drop a message on Twitter - Harbinger on Twitter

Junko's Shamisen

Been doing some slick flick stuff in the past weeks, and came across this nice little short... animation, comic, live action theatre. And it has a samurai. It's Junko's Shamisen by Sol Friedman.



Working on Redman (yet again). Wont be showing much of that except on twitter, and on here when i have something substantial like 50% done.

Till then...

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Politicians need to come off my screen. Or I'll personally give you an enema with a water cannon.

Dissent into Hell

Dante, the crusades, the 9 levels of hell, not something I enjoy reading about or watching adaptations of. The concept of the Italian poems really is unnerving. It's ugly, but of course the thanatos in me always peaks my interest. Based on the vid game Dante's Inferno, EA did a series of animations (anime of course). Something about falling, lack of control, screams of terror w/dopler effect. But the sentiment "good intentions pave the roads to hell" and the long standing evils of Anglo-hegemonies is something that I can appreciate. Religosity adds a more relevant twist especially today, as Islam extremism, the Brotherhood, or whatever the BBC is calling it has replaced Christianity and the Propaganda wing of the Roman Catholic Sect as the dominant ideology hellbent on converting heathens through violence.



Segue to my illustrations of Redman. Been doing the frames for a whimsical scene where he falls after his crown. Pretty cool,decided to go with a black, white and red palette. This is a frame I'm currently working on.

Mat H. will be proud. The project's been through so much starting and stopping I thought I'd never get it off to a start.

I wanted this sequence to be intense and violent as his fall into darkness signifes his state of mind, fearless, desperate. He falls to catch his crown, symbolic of his desperate gripe for power and sovereignty of a luster-lack kingship.

It's coming on well. Also looking to get an anthology done that I have been sitting on for the past 4 years. Busy Busy.

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Fall for me and I will teach you how to rise with me.

By Crom!

I grew up on stuff like this. But as a young dude I never took care of my comics. Coloured in them. got torn. Lost. Re-found with the first 5 pages missing. Lost again. But with the remainder of what I had when I got older I really appreciated the art and literature. Even young back then when you'd think I'd gravitate towards books with colour, the black and white draftsmanship did more for me than any other book could. So sometime ago, I went on ebay and got some of The Savage Sword of Conan catalogue and geeked out. Well worth the dineros. But I have to say, I didn't remember Conan being so racially charged. The sexism, yeah that's a given. Disdain for sorcery and witchery- sure.  I guess its why they took a page from MAD and published themselves as a magazine rather that publish under the thumb of the Comic Code of Conduct. Creative bigoted bastards.

But with all that said, I'm back on the theme of sword play and this time things are gonna get done on Redman. Not to say I didnt make progress on it the last time I was chipping away at it... about a third of it is pencilled out. Just working on the other 2/3,

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1000 years of success. I wish. On you. Friends. By Crom.