Short Film: The Risk not Taken

Alex Glawion's 'The Risk not Taken' has been shown at many animation festivals. He has now released the full film for all of us to enjoy.

"In a strange, but wonderful world a creature envisions the fatal outcome of a potential decision and is granted a chance to alter future events. "The Risk not Taken" is a story about making the right decisions. Can one calculate the inherent risks of imminent decisions and take full responsibility for their outcome? Should one be allowed to make decisions of this magnitude for others?"

Alex writes:

I worked on this short film for about 4 months during my final semester in filmschool in 2011. It has been shown at some festivals around the world including the Siggraph Computer Animation Festival and the Suzanne Festival at the Blender Conference (yay!).

All the 3D Work (61 shots!) has as always been done in Blender, the particle system was heavily used for creating the landscape and characters, that are made up of only 5 very simple objects. Rendering was done with the good old Blender internal render engine! I rendered out seperate layers, usually mattes - background - characters - VFX (clouds etc.) - foreground and any necessary passes to composite back together in After Effects. Pretty much standard workflow.