Showing posts with label keamy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keamy. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

28 Young Men (2026) directed by Vincent-louis Apruzzese

 

This is a remake of a 2020 version I made in Cinema 4D and had a lot of technical restrictions that never sat well with me. There was no way the software and my computer could but 29 characters in a shot and even just moving them around, which worked as no one was going to count the men, was even more limited, since they could really move much or the app would crash. I do think it worked but lacked the look I wanted. 

This version made with Blender, I hope, is much more realized with more movement and a better, more detailed setting. Michael Z. Keamy and I were originally going to film this with live actors in Provincetown but getting 28 young men to cavort naked on a beach, even in P-town isn't as easy to put together as it sounds. So I went with animation and his great narration. The soundscape is simple. I added some seagull noises to round it out but otherwise it's unchanged. The structure is basically the same as well. I like the way I set up the shots but now everything looks better and has more going on in each shot. I gave the young men and the woman more character I hope. 

Monday, October 3, 2022

Award: best animation at the Tokyo Vilm Awards




Another award for my animated short,  The Cask of Amontillado" is at the Cask of Amontillado at the Tokyo Film Awards! 

Again,  Mike Luce and Michael Z Keamy deserve all the praise for their wonderful voice work! 


Sunday, September 4, 2022

Cask of Amontillado at the Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF)


 My animated film, The ask of Amontillado" is at the Cask of Amontillado at the Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF) in Moldava September 5th! 

Thanks Always to the two Mikes, Mike Luce and Michael Z Keamy for their voice work! 


Saturday, February 1, 2020

28 Young Men (2020) directed by Vincent-louis Apruzzese, narrated by Michael Z. Keamy



28 Young Men, a short poem by Walt whiman read by Michael Z. Keamy and animated by me (Behemoth media).

The project has been several years in the making. Originally we wanted to do live action and scouted and filmed several locations. As time went on, it became clear that getting 28 make men to splash around on a beach for free was not really a realistic option. We needed a secluded place and no trouble from local authorities. So animation was the voice in the end.

The men barely move, (and no there are not really 28 of them but I am not exactly Pixar so we never see them all at once), the idea being they are frozen in the woman's fantasy as she imagines herself moving amongst them. The beach and house are loose representations of Newburyport where Keamy are up and had specific locations in mind. So the advanced filming came in handy when it came to making the sets.

The water effects were done with X-particles for Cinema 4D and look pretty good to me. they are not meant to look like real water and match the cartoon look of the ocean waves.

Warning, I guess... cartoon nudity.