FOR MY JESSY. I LOVE YOU. Gabe. Latest creation, ShapeShifter, opens mysteriously on a dark car, speeding through the night on winding mountain roads. It is set to a haunting musical composition and prose poem, performed by Gabriel Byrne and scored to a haunting musical composition. Moments in, the car bursts into a new dimension - a dimension of dreams, creating a supernova-like explosion. The vehicle disintegrates into countless tiny bits that plunge into the variegated depths of space. The pieces plummet to the surface of a dreamy alien planet, where they alternately combine into fleet creatures representing the car's soul - a puma, a trio of sprinting antelope, a pair of swift-moving fish, and a massive bird of prey - all tumbling past a relentless explosion of flora booming to life. The film, concepted, created and finished entirely at Charlex, is both a showcase of the studio's creative and storytelling abilities and a testament to the teamwork, persistence and dedication that define their efforts. The Charlex team developed ShapeShifter from inception to final picture, working in teams as small as three and as large as 15, writing, re-writing, pulling reference, designing, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, texturing, animation, lighting and 2D and 3D compositing. The project began as a challenge of sorts, when Charlex Founder and Director Alex Weil - the creative force behind the 2006 classic One Rat Short - asked a handful of Charlex designers to imagine a project <b>...</b>
Gabriel
Byrne
