Dec 6, 2013

Complete Brett Foxwell's decade-long stop-motion film "Fabricated"!

Brett Foxwell is a mechanical engineer and stop-motion animator. Described as a "story of growth and rebirth," the 18-minute short follows Oto, a scrap metal beast that travels through a world where biological matter no longer exists. After completing the animation production and editing stages single-handedly, Foxwell launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $12,000 for sound design, composition, and color correction. He plans to complete the film by June 2014.

"I finished the final editing of the video and watched it as a finished work for the first time. It was amazing, spectacular, otherworldly, cinematic... And it doesn't move a bit. A film cannot be truly alive without sound. The film requires not only the color timing of the images, but also a meticulous sound design and musical score."

Foxwell is using the film's handmade puppets and set pieces as an incentive for prospective supporters: each pledge level of $60 or more includes a fully posed, one-of-a-kind puppet or sculptural contraption, solidly made of brass, metal, or wood The pieces are all one-of-a-kind, fully posed dolls or sculptural contraptions. Some of the physical pieces have the added bonus of being repurposed by visual effects legend Phil Tippett for his upcoming stop-motion film "Mad Gods." (Tippett makes a cameo appearance in the Kickstarter video.)

With 11 days left in the campaign, Foxwell has raised just over 25% of its goal, or $3,200.