Feb 8, 2025
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Castlevania: Nocturne by Patrick Stannard
More EPIC awesome shots from Night Runner’s “Magnum Bullets” music video because it’s way too cool to make for just one post.
Definitely some Don Bluth vibes from the design styles... and look at the lighting. Oh how it GLOWS! Just like a filmed, cel-animated 1980s animated movie.
DIRECTED BY PATRICK STANNARD
STORYBOARDS: PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, CHRISSY UNDERWOOD
ANIMATION: PATICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, NAS PASHA
CLEAN UP AND LIGHTING: HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, INDIA SWIFT, PATRICK STANNARD
COLOR: ELLE POWER, HARDIK MANKTALA, ETHAN YAZEL, MICHAEL DOIG, INDIA SWIFT
BACKGROUND ART: MICHAEL DOIG, RENEE VIOLET
SFX ANIMATION: DAVID LIU, PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA
POST PRODUCTION: MICHAEL DOIG,
MUSIC BY NIGHTRUNNER
LYRICS BY DAN AVIDAN
Tweet version here.
“Special thanks to all my #Knights for this special #Birthday present! Y'all are the armor to my heart! Left to Right: @andobiki @Epifex @PaperbagTweet @planetrazzmataz @Animatoonings @OldSwifty Me @michaeldoigart @Ty_ArtWizard @reMENgeance @IrvingBrew @AngryangryD @EllePowerr”
This mere scene of sci-fi action violence in Night Runner’s “Magnum Bullets” is SO cool, that it merits a photoset post for itself.
DIRECTED BY PATRICK STANNARD
STORYBOARDS: PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, CHRISSY UNDERWOOD
ANIMATION: PATICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, NAS PASHA
CLEAN UP AND LIGHTING: HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, INDIA SWIFT, PATRICK STANNARD
COLOR: ELLE POWER, HARDIK MANKTALA, ETHAN YAZEL, MICHAEL DOIG, INDIA SWIFT
BACKGROUND ART: MICHAEL DOIG, RENEE VIOLET
SFX ANIMATION: DAVID LIU, PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA
POST PRODUCTION: MICHAEL DOIG,
MUSIC BY NIGHTRUNNER
LYRICS BY DAN AVIDAN
Tweet version here.
3rd set of awesome screengrabs from Night Runner’s “Magnum Bullets”--really trying to show the fight sequence off. Some of the poses/designs, colors, and effects look ultra cinematic, like this came out of a 1980s animated movie, as I said before.
DIRECTED BY PATRICK STANNARD
STORYBOARDS: PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, CHRISSY UNDERWOOD
ANIMATION: PATICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, NAS PASHA
CLEAN UP AND LIGHTING: HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, INDIA SWIFT, PATRICK STANNARD
COLOR: ELLE POWER, HARDIK MANKTALA, ETHAN YAZEL, MICHAEL DOIG, INDIA SWIFT
BACKGROUND ART: MICHAEL DOIG, RENEE VIOLET
SFX ANIMATION: DAVID LIU, PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA
POST PRODUCTION: MICHAEL DOIG,
MUSIC BY NIGHTRUNNER
LYRICS BY DAN AVIDAN
Tweet version here.
This dropped in on @toonami / @adultswim last night, and I spent over 3 hours getting 200 screenshots from this crystal of animation (and produced by an American animation company, Knights of the Light Table, Inc.).
Night Runner’s “Magnum Bullets” music video [TV-MA] appeared before commercial break during Fire Force and I was absolutely STUNNED by how good this animation and design is. It’s really cinematic and retro, like a blend of Genndy Tartakovsky and Don Bluth with anime.
This goes to show you that America can produce great animation in their own country these days and need not to be limited to animation services in Canada or Korea (Canada would be better these days compared to Korean animation).
DIRECTED BY PATRICK STANNARD
STORYBOARDS: PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, CHRISSY UNDERWOOD
ANIMATION: PATICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, NAS PASHA
CLEAN UP AND LIGHTING: HARDIK MANKTALA, ELLE POWER, DAVID LIU, INDIA SWIFT, PATRICK STANNARD
COLOR: ELLE POWER, HARDIK MANKTALA, ETHAN YAZEL, MICHAEL DOIG, INDIA SWIFT
BACKGROUND ART: MICHAEL DOIG, RENEE VIOLET
SFX ANIMATION: DAVID LIU, PATRICK STANNARD, INDIA SWIFT, HARDIK MANKTALA
POST PRODUCTION: MICHAEL DOIG,
MUSIC BY NIGHTRUNNER
LYRICS BY DAN AVIDAN
Tweet #1 here.
Tweet #2 here.
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