Blur Studio continues its progress from an in-game animation house through short films and, ultimately, to features with “A Gentleman’s Duel” – an eight minute 3D animated short in which a Frenchman and an Englishman vie for the superbly endowed favors of a noblewoman and, one assumes, her equally well endowed estate. It’s built like a brick mansion.
Matters quickly get out of control as they begin a duel in their Steampunk robotic combat suits. Mayhem ensues.
This short also marks Blur’s transition to Softimage software – they’ve long been a 3DS Max house – and the film became a testbed for their work with that software. It’s not 100% Softimage, but they’ve obviously done a fine job integrating Softimage into their pipeline.
This is Blur Studio‘s fifth ambitious short film. They’ve already collected one Oscar nomination for their earlier works.
