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Empsillnes is an animated short film directed by Jakub Grygier. The story is a mix of existing well known stories with big influence coming from computer games and many sci fi films. The plot shows struggle of main hero alone in space in reality where artificial intelligence took control over the World. Making of the movie took 4 years and entire visual aspect of the film have been created by one person Jakub Grygier. The music and sound is created by compositor Pawel Gorniak. The cinema version of soundtrack was mastered in PostMeridian Productions company based in Warsaw. Date of completion: 1st January 2015
AWARDS: Best CGI at 2015 SCI FI Film Festival.
CREDITS:
Director Producer Screenplay: Jakub Grygier
Contact: nordenworks@gmail.com
Sound and Music: Pawel Gorniak
Storyboard and Previs: Pawel Wojciechowicz
CGI and Animation: Jakub Grygier
Mocap:Alicja Uzarowska, Damian Stempniewski
Photogrammetry Consultant: Rafal Kwasny
Special Thanks: “Hescomp” computers Wroclaw, Piotr Grygier, Nvidia, NASA, Adrian Kajda max3d.pl, Jedrzej Bukowski
Jakub Grygier/DIRECTOR BIO:
Jakub Grygier is self educated visual effects artist. He was born 7th July 1988 in Wroclaw, Poland (Lower silesian district). From early childhood Jakub have strong interest connected with drawing and art. Very early he started create digitaly which few years later brought him into visual effects industry. he was inspired to work with digital and matte painting by the Star Wars and Jurassic Park series. He decided to end his studies after graduating from a grammar school specialising in architecture in Wrocław and became a self-educated graphic designer and Science-Fiction fan.
He worked for most of the leading Polish graphics studios (Techland, Platige Image, Chimney Pot, Filmgarden etc.) on various computer game projects (Dead Island, Dying Light), TV commercials, feature films (Antychryst [Antichrist], Melancholia [Melancholy], Essential Killing, Skrzydlate Świnie [Winged Pigs]).
As a contractor for The Moving Picture Company in London (Wrath of the Titans, Jack the Giant Slayer, Ronin 47). As a contractor for Double Negative he created visual effects for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation He lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada and enjoys astronomy and WWII history as hobbies.
After many years of getting experience in vfx industry Jakub decided to produce and direct his own animated short film called Empsillnes. It took him 4 years to complete a movie from a scratch where whole visual part is created only by him.
Jakub have plans and screenplays for more short animated films. One of the project also science-fiction is in early preproduction.
MAKING OF THE MOVIE:
The first draft of the script was written 10 november 2010. Story is based upon various science fiction novels, films and video games. Its a mix of elements which director decided to be the best for science fict
Empsillnes is an animated short film directed by Jakub Grygier. The story is a mix of existing well known stories with big influence coming from computer games and many sci fi films. The plot shows struggle of main hero alone in space in reality where artificial intelligence took control over the World. Making of the movie took 4 years and entire visual aspect of the film have been created by one person Jakub Grygier. The music and sound is created by compositor Pawel Gorniak. The cinema version of soundtrack was mastered in PostMeridian Productions company based in Warsaw. Date of completion: 1st January 2015
AWARDS: Best CGI at 2015 SCI FI Film Festival.
CREDITS:
Director Producer Screenplay: Jakub Grygier
Contact: nordenworks@gmail.com
Sound and Music: Pawel Gorniak
Storyboard and Previs: Pawel Wojciechowicz
CGI and Animation: Jakub Grygier
Mocap:Alicja Uzarowska, Damian Stempniewski
Photogrammetry Consultant: Rafal Kwasny
Special Thanks: “Hescomp” computers Wroclaw, Piotr Grygier, Nvidia, NASA, Adrian Kajda max3d.pl, Jedrzej Bukowski
Jakub Grygier/DIRECTOR BIO:
Jakub Grygier is self educated visual effects artist. He was born 7th July 1988 in Wroclaw, Poland (Lower silesian district). From early childhood Jakub have strong interest connected with drawing and art. Very early he started create digitaly which few years later brought him into visual effects industry. he was inspired to work with digital and matte painting by the Star Wars and Jurassic Park series. He decided to end his studies after graduating from a grammar school specialising in architecture in Wrocław and became a self-educated graphic designer and Science-Fiction fan.
He worked for most of the leading Polish graphics studios (Techland, Platige Image, Chimney Pot, Filmgarden etc.) on various computer game projects (Dead Island, Dying Light), TV commercials, feature films (Antychryst [Antichrist], Melancholia [Melancholy], Essential Killing, Skrzydlate Świnie [Winged Pigs]).
As a contractor for The Moving Picture Company in London (Wrath of the Titans, Jack the Giant Slayer, Ronin 47). As a contractor for Double Negative he created visual effects for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation He lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada and enjoys astronomy and WWII history as hobbies.
After many years of getting experience in vfx industry Jakub decided to produce and direct his own animated short film called Empsillnes. It took him 4 years to complete a movie from a scratch where whole visual part is created only by him.
Jakub have plans and screenplays for more short animated films. One of the project also science-fiction is in early preproduction.
MAKING OF THE MOVIE:
The first draft of the script was written 10 november 2010. Story is based upon various science fiction novels, films and video games. Its a mix of elements which director decided to be the best for science fict
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