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Pellet Gunn by Tim Beckhardt
 November 2, 2009 7:28 pm
I saw Tim Beckhardt’s Pellet Gun in Ottawa a couple weeks ago. It’s a student film from RISD. I liked the crisp linear style and it made me chuckle even though I didn’t get it. Tim explained it to me afterward, and the explanation was quite reasonable, which made me wonder why I didn’t get it in the first place. |
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after the comment about getting it, now I’m not sure if I do or not.
What I find really interesting is that the design seems to lend itself well to working digitally, but if I remember correctly Tim did everything entirely hand drawn. I would be curious to know what led to that choice, and what Tim thinks about it after going through that process.
That was pretty good. If you know what the pun is based on, it’s pretty easy to understand. It looks like a well done mini comic.
Really fresh looking film. I didn’t get it fully either but that made me watch it a couple more times, which is a great thing for a short film to make you want to do. Still not completely sure if I totally get it. Maybe I’ll watch it once more!
+1 to ben c
Anyone care to explain, or provide a link?
I enjoyed the fresh drawing style,
the humble garage-style guitar track,
and all the bizzzarre scenes!
What’s not to get? This thing is quietly great. It reminds me of a Chris Miller story from an old NATIONAL LAMPOON, involving wormhole birth control and its disastrous consequences.
Excellent – It doesnt have to mean a thing.
Liked it alot! Tim, KEEP MAKING FILMS!
I liked it. It sort of reminded me of something out a Rudy Rucker novel, with its cyberpunk sensibility.
SO AWESOME! LOVE THIS FILM!
As somebody who did too much Model Rocketry in my life, I loved the throwaway reference that the Rocket Hand hand two C engines.
Also the time wormhole bit about retrieving the dead guy’s head from the near future.
This was freakin’ GREAT!! Intelligent and funny. And bizarre!!
Just awesome. Abosolutely awesome. This is the kind of animation that really pushes into fun Ballard or Vonnegut style narratives. So great that sci-fi toons can grow up beyond 50’s kitsch love. I just checked out Tim’s other films too – “I TOOK A TRIP” evokes “THE MONK AND THE FISH,” “AMERICAN ASTRONAUT” and “REVOLVER” for me – no small praise that!
Hi – thanks for the comments everybody and Amid for posting this up.
Mike, everything was hand-drawn on paper then composited in After Effects (so I wasn’t totally un-digital). This film grew heavily out of my love of underground & alternative comix / old comic strips and other lo-fi forms, so the process of drawing on paper (hand-filling blacks, white-out, mistakes) was I felt really the only way to go. Even my crummy all-in-one fax/scanner/xerox became a part of the aesthetic.
I find that I often enjoy working with/against the limits imposed by such a process, and hope to keep that tension as I’m moving to more all-digital ways of working.
Could this be the smartest student film ever? It’s stronger and more pungent than it has any right to be, and it kicks butt!
i really like the different tones of black in the lines and fills.