It still surprises me at how few people have seen Freak of the Week, and I love sharing it with friends because of the inevitable,Ā āHow the hell have I never seen this?ā look of awe drawn out on their face.
And man, it really is gorgeous.
Directed by Juanjo Guarnido, it took the team about a year of hard work to hammer out this bloody masterpieceĀ (which you can learn about in his video here) using a combination of 3D animation with the power of college internsĀ Ā skill of a team of artists to painstakingly re-draw the 3D elements they wanted in 2D frame-by-frame, not to mention the post processing andā¦ everything else.
Ā Even though it came out in 2014, it doesnāt seem to have ever garnered the attention it truly deserves.
I really wanna drive this point home, so to give you an idea, Ghost by Mystery Skulls, animated by MysteryBen27 has 18,147,263 views. Ā
Freak of the WeekĀ has only 2,271,121 views at the time Iām writing this. Ā Thatās fucking depressingĀ for something so ā¦ phenomenal. Ā I want more of this, and hell, maybe you do too. Ā But weāre not going to see anymore simply because the right people havenāt seen it. Ā In fact, it failed to reach a respectable level of Internet PopularityĀ®, Juanjo himself even described it in the comments section as having ruined him because of how little attention it got. Ā
So if youāre reading this and youāve got some connections with a TV network or something, consider pulling some strings to get this video spoon-fed to the masses, because people ought to see this. Ā Iām sure Juanjo would be all too happy to oblige. Ā And hell, if you wanna buy the art book, you can get the link hereĀ for about $50.
Now, maybe you recognize the former Disney animatorĀ Juanjo GuarnidoĀ for his other work:Ā Blacksad.
Which is a comic set in the late 1950ā²s about a hardboiled private investigator published originally by Dark Horse Comics that doesā¦ yāknow, the ā¦
ā¦ noir investigator ā¦
ā¦ detective story thing.
That I havenāt yet read but I TOTALLY NEED TO. Ā
I guess Iām bringing up Freak of the WeekĀ because I was reading the comment section and, man, it kinda got me down. Ā
Some of the best things things out there just havenāt been seen by the right people, I guess. Ā But I suppose itās also a depressing statement on the culture of the internet that the video makes.
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