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Sandy Collora, the director of Batman: Dead End, recently completed shooting his horror adventure short film "Shallow Water." This is a film that he was able to make with the help of his fans through Kickstarter. He is currently in post-production, and as a fan of Collora's work and his art, I can't wait to see how the film turns out!
As the filmmaker is completing his project, he has launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a book he's put together featuring a ton of awesome development art for the film! It's called The Art of Shallow Water: A Short Book About a Short Film. If you're like me and you enjoy seeing the concept art, key art, maquettes, costumes, storyboards, and other forms of development art for movies, this is a must have book because it contains art from one of the most talented guys in the industry.
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This is what Collora had to say about the book and why he decided to put it together:
Ever wonder how much design and artwork goes into even the smallest of independent genre films? Well, I'm gonna show you...
This small, but packed magazine style book will chronicle the adventure and process that has been the past six years of my life, called "Shallow Water". It has been through many phases and started and stopped more times than I can remember. Now that it's done, I feel a book containing all the art, showing the thought process that got me here, would be interesting and also make a nice companion volume to my series of creature design books.
"Shallow Water", like most of my films, began as a bunch of doodles and sketches that eventually turn into more detailed renderings and maquettes. I tend to create stories visually before I put pen to paper or should I say fingers to keyboard-- I take all the drawings I do and pin them up on the walls of my studio all around me, then I start writing and build the story around what I've developed visually.
I'm an artist. I was an artist before I started making films and I'll always be an artist. The camera is an extension of my body, just like a pencil, paint brush or sculpting tool. Film, I feel is the natural evolution for me-- an outlet to tell my stories visually through a moving medium.
This book will contain a lot of the preliminary drawings and stuff that I used to conjure up the idea of "Shallow Water". It will include everything from the roughest of doodles to the finished creature suits, on set photos and everything in between. There was a ton of artwork generated in the almost six years it's taken to bring this little film to the screen and it's all here, crammed into this little book.
If you want to pledge any money to the Art of Shallow Water book, click here. If you do, there are a bunch of cool rewards involved, which you can see on the Kickstarter page. Below you'll find a couple other images and a video.
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