My Animation of the week this week is a short film called 'gentleman's duel' by Blur Studios.

Started in 1995, Blur Studios has been creating many visual effects, animation and design. Focused mainly on computer 3D animation there are still a wide variety of elements involved including Character rigging, Large Format - Film, Location based entertainment, game cinematics and many more.

I love this animation for its kind of steam punk feel and the 3D aspect of it, the lighting and character animations are fantastic.

the reason why i like this so much is due to the fact that i tried to animate using 3DS Max and Maya and found it very hard to get realistic lighting and even harder to rig characters.

also you can tell its intended audience is young adults due to some of the comical scenes used and exaggerated expressions. but also keeping the action based story line of two males fighting over a female, which in many young adults they can relate to it, feeling closer to the characters.