GERGANA “LEAVE”

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Inspiration for this conception comes from different places, starting with the classical animation series of “Voltron”, the film ‘Robot Jox (1990)’ by director Stuart Gordon, and a contest for robots, organized by the Bulgarian forum for computer graphics ‘Graphilla’.

There are some interesting technological details about the video. It takes one year and four months from thinking up the idea to the final release of the video. If the arena was real it would have been 1 km in diameter. The ring is actually an unfilled auto morgue. That is why there are a lot of scattered cars around its edges. There are 22 different car models in the scenes and each one is squashed, damaged and put in place by hand with a lot of care. In many scenes more than 7000 computer generated cars can be seen. The robots consist of 202 moving parts and their height is 22 meters, as high as a seven-storied building. Three different versions of the robots have been created till they reach their final appearance, which takes 4 months.

2008

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CREDITS

Music
Plamen Stoichev

Sound effects
Graffitti Studio

Director of photography
Jordan Petkov

Visual effects and animation
Genig Studio

Matte painting
Hristo Chukov

Tracking
Ivan Tepavicharov

Producer
Mitko Dimitrov

Director
Mihail Popov

Very special thanks to
The man who did many things but didn’t want people to know his name
Hristo Chukov
Ivan Tepavicharov
Miroslav Petrov
Todor Dimitrov and Kremena Dimitrova
Nikolay Petrov