Rakthavira

MTV and Sci Fi Channel veteran, Voltaire takes us on a one minute tour of Hindu Hell narrated by Deborah Harry of Blondie

Some facts: The film was shot around 1993 at Broadcast Arts, the animation company where they made Pee Wee's Playhouse. It was included in Expanded Entertainment's theatrical and home video release, "Too Outrageous Animation". It's narrated by Deborah Harry of the band, Blondie. The director of photography, John R.A. Benson, went on to work at ILM, worked on King Kong and most recently was CG supervisor on Coraline. In 2000, The Sci Fi Channel featured this film in their weekly show "Exposure" along with an interview with Voltaire. The first panoramic shot was originally 30 seconds long and took 96 consecutive hours to shoot. The crew kept falling asleep during the animation of that shot. Sadly, the shot had to be cut into three pieces to hide some lighting problems caused by grips sleepwalking on the set.

Official Selection of these 2009 Film Festivals:
International Stop-motion Festival-Mexico City
Vampire Film Festival-New Orleans
STOP-MOTION FEST V- (a tribute to Willis O'Brien and Aurelio Voltaire) Mexico City, Mexico

Official Selection of these 2010 Festivals:
Purgatory Film Festival-Detroit

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Voltaire
• stop-motion
• animation
• claymation
• puppets
• MTV
• Debbie
• Harry
• Deborah
• Blondie

[RockerHisoka]

lol they were sleep walking on set? so after all the work they had yo cut it for some sleepwalkers?....thats horrible!

[voltairenyc]

On a project like this where there are several dozen small lights on the set, it's important to count them after every frame to make sure none of them went out because there'd be a really obvious lighting shift. Sometimes, because there were so many characters to animate, it would take me a couple of hours to animate one frame and the lighting guy would fall asleep and miss that a light had blown. A couple of times, someone kicked a light stand accidentally while sleepwalking to the bathroom.

[RockerHisoka]

Whatever happened to the parts that where cut?

You wouldn't happened to have them,so fans could see the complete work.

PS. Love every singles video you've made, & the Joe's Apartment scene was awesome.

[voltairenyc]

I cut out as little as possible and not have it seem like a jump-cut. The snippets I cut out are only about 12 frames each! So believe me when I say, you are not missing much.

[georgerobinson14]

That must have taken a lot of work, very creepy but still brilliant.

[voltairenyc]

It took FOREVER!!! I had to build all of the creatures and the set which was 13 feet long! And then it took a few days to light it and a painful amount of time to animate it. And then of course there was editing, music and sound design. It really makes you wonder why someone would spend so much time and money on something that's 45 seconds long. But I'm glad I did.

[bubbajster]

Voltaire has got to be my number one artistic motivation. Hewrites comics, has his own line f toys, makes these kinds of short vids, and is a hell of a musician as well! Voltaire FTW!

[ShifterAnime]

Ive seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

[PurpleCowsMakeGJ]

:] I'm doing a school project...We had to choose 2 religions and tell which one is a better choice, Hindu or Christianity...It's killing me, because I don't like saying one religion is wrong...e_e But, this was very interesting...so this is hell? There's always a "but" in religion, isn't there?

[AgustinSantiensanio]

this was pisred on my borthdat :D wooot

[jacobbill]

@bubbajster Well, no-one can say you're not a dedicated man.

[bigmathafaka]

@Rabbid2213 both

[1sabel44]

I love it all. I'ts so delicate like everything you do

[TheMrswitt]

Loved it!! :)

[Denluddigasaken]

not bad at all :)

[YMaryThedaLynn]

love this!! plus, Deborah.,. magnificent! :}

[yuo252]

@Rabbid2213 i beleve going into AQW got him some younger fans... which is good and bad good is more fans = more money bad is some of his songs are realy fucked up