Welcome to another horror/sci-fi round-up. We have big news for those of you who enjoyed Tomas Vergara’s stunning zombie short film, Isolated, as well as four release date changes for Marvel’s Phase 3 slate and details on the Horror Block Short Film Festival.
Isolated: Clocking in at about five minutes, Tomas Vergara’s CGI-animated Isolated features plenty of heart-pumping suspense, an intriguing story, and zombies that emerge slowly from the shadows, though they are capable of sprinting down the city streets (effectively evoking both George A. Romero’s living dead and the zombies of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake).
We shared Vergara’s short film with Daily Dead readers last month. If you were captivated by the apocalyptic story and didn’t want it to end, then you’re in luck, because in addition to Vergara being signed by the Verve agency, Deadline reports...
Isolated: Clocking in at about five minutes, Tomas Vergara’s CGI-animated Isolated features plenty of heart-pumping suspense, an intriguing story, and zombies that emerge slowly from the shadows, though they are capable of sprinting down the city streets (effectively evoking both George A. Romero’s living dead and the zombies of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake).
We shared Vergara’s short film with Daily Dead readers last month. If you were captivated by the apocalyptic story and didn’t want it to end, then you’re in luck, because in addition to Vergara being signed by the Verve agency, Deadline reports...
- 2/10/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Off his cutting-edge short film Isolated, writer/director Tomas Vergara has been signed by Verve. Not surprisingly, the agency’s first order of business will be to grow his short into a feature that Vergara will direct. They’ll use the short as the sales tool. Isolated is an intense, immersive, exciting, high-octane, thrill ride about a taxi driver who wakes up in a deserted city — only to find himself pursued by humans. Struggling to piece together what is going on, the driver soon discovers he has more in common with the raging humans, more than what he thinks. With a VFX background, Vergara and his Peak Pictures team opted to make take their narrative down the animation route instead of live-action because they wanted “full-creative control – especially with scenarios, lights, camera and scale.” It’s easy to imagine Isolated as a live-action sequence from a feature film, for...
- 2/10/2015
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
While watching Isolated I was immediately asking myself one question – why can’t animated features be this beautiful? It is the story of Ivan, a man who awakens in a wrecked taxi with no recollection of where he is and how he got there. The next few minutes are spent following Ivan as he uncovers what is happening and the very real danger he finds himself in.
It’s so realistic looking at times that within the opening 30 seconds I couldn’t tell whether this was going to be animated or live action. The detail in facial expressions, scenery, and lighting are just meticulously crafted and portrayed. What Isolated does with its visuals beyond telling a story is taking you behind its creation. You can feel the heart and soul the team over at Peak Pictures and directed by Tomas Vergara put into it.
Speaking of the story, what they...
It’s so realistic looking at times that within the opening 30 seconds I couldn’t tell whether this was going to be animated or live action. The detail in facial expressions, scenery, and lighting are just meticulously crafted and portrayed. What Isolated does with its visuals beyond telling a story is taking you behind its creation. You can feel the heart and soul the team over at Peak Pictures and directed by Tomas Vergara put into it.
Speaking of the story, what they...
- 2/4/2015
- by Ryan
- City of Films
Evan’s experiencing a very rude awakening. He lifts his head from the steering wheel to see the hood of his taxi rammed into the underbelly of a truck. Someone else’s blood is spattered on his face, and standing not far from his passenger door window are two zombies… the first of many Evan will encounter in Isolated, the new CGI-animated short film from Tomas Vergara that we have for Daily Dead visitors to watch.
Clocking in at about five minutes, Peak Pictures’ Isolated features plenty of heart-pumping suspense, an intriguing story, and zombies that emerge slowly from the shadows, though they are capable of sprinting down the city streets (effectively evoking both George A. Romero’s living dead and the zombies of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake).
Chilean co-writer/director Vergara revealed in an interview with The Daily Dot that the majority of Isolated was shot with performance capture technology,...
Clocking in at about five minutes, Peak Pictures’ Isolated features plenty of heart-pumping suspense, an intriguing story, and zombies that emerge slowly from the shadows, though they are capable of sprinting down the city streets (effectively evoking both George A. Romero’s living dead and the zombies of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake).
Chilean co-writer/director Vergara revealed in an interview with The Daily Dot that the majority of Isolated was shot with performance capture technology,...
- 1/26/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In 2012, we wrote about an impressive animated CGI short film called The Chase from first-time filmmaker Tomas Vergara. Now the Chilean director is back with Isolated, a new short that's also 100% CGI - but this one takes place in a world full of zombies. He used motion-capture technology to get the performances he needed, and there's a tantalizing cliffhanger that left me hoping that we'll get to see more of what happens in this world in some form or another. Vergara apparently already has the full story worked out, because he told DailyDot that the next installment of the tale (in whatever form that will take) will have:
"More action, drama, scale, intensity and eye candy. If you liked this one, you're gonna die with the next. And we kind of leave aside the oversaturated zombie thing. What matters to us is that you root for this guy."
I'm definitely...
"More action, drama, scale, intensity and eye candy. If you liked this one, you're gonna die with the next. And we kind of leave aside the oversaturated zombie thing. What matters to us is that you root for this guy."
I'm definitely...
- 1/26/2015
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
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