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Shatranj | Your Move (Short Film)
Credits: Qazi Hamza Javed (Director, Writer, Pre-production, Production, Post production), Michelle Schindler (Credits Sequence), Qazi Sufian Javed (Music), Jon Kelly (Cigarette Smoke - Dynamics), Myles Tanaka (Supervisor)
Description: Revolving around the efforts of a soldier trying to survive in a desolate land, this story gives a glimpse of what existence in the contemporary world has reduced to. All catastrophic events are mere moves, the men only pawns in a game that is played by men who would sacrifice anything and everything to win.
Software: Maya (Autodesk), Mental Ray, Photoshop, After Effects, Adobe Premiere
Keywords: Screenplay, Creative Direction, 3D, Production, Short Film, Video/Animation
Awards & Recognition:
  • Award of Excellence in Filmmaking, Canada International Film Festival, 2010
  • Recognition Award, NYU SCPS: Literary and Visual Art Festival, 2010
  • Official Selection, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, 2009
  • Official Selection, MetroCAF-Siggraph, 2009
    • The Film
    Character Design
    9 Characters were developed for this film. Each character was a caricature of the various 'soldiers' that this world has created. Given the length and the amount of work on this film, it was decided during production to tackle these 9 separate characters in the Rigging process (like the Wickershams in Horton Hears a Who). This as a result saved alot of time that would have otherwise been required to model/texture/rig each character separately.
    Enivronment Design
    4 different environments were created for the purpose of telling the story. Each environment represented major conflict regions in the world. This is what the post-9.11 world looked like during the times of George W. Bush. Now in retrospect, the world hasn't changed much since then. :(
    Renders and Marketing Material
    This film was completed in 3 months, just in time to enter the last leg of the festival circuit in 2009.

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