My Date From Hell

From the 3D World Showreel: the Devil moves into his Viagra years, hoping to find the right girl to make his life complete, in this clever and atmospheric short from two graduates of Germany’s Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Have pity on poor Beelzebub. Fat and complacent, and bored with the daily pressures of running the underworld, he’s convinced that finding Ms Right is the cure for his ennui. But the Devil discovers that blind dates, personal ads and video dating are simply pitfalls along a road paved with good intentions; or so we learn in My Date from Hell, a short from German artists Tim Weimann and Tom Bracht.

VITAL STATISTICS
Running time: 14:00
Budget: €6,000
Funding sources: Animationsinstitut at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Time taken: 4.5 years
Software used: Softimage|3D, Maya, Shave and a Haircut, RealFlow, Shake, Digital Fusion
Hardware used: Dell Precision 670 with dual 3.2GHz Xeon processor, 2GB RAM, Quadro FX 3400 graphics card; 50-machine render farm; Avid DS Nitris system
Public Screenings: Siggraph Electronic Theater (USA, 2006), Anima Mundi (Brazil, 2006), Cannes Film Festival (France, 2006), Annecy 2006 – International Festival of Animated Film (2006, France)

SYNOPSIS
Can the Devil find the girl of his dreams and cure his midlife crisis?

LOOK OUT FOR
00:00 Great sets establish the Hell setting right from the start
01:00 The Devil no longer in disguise
02:20 Wilber builds a set
02:49 Hell’s kitchen
03:45 Dreaded middle-aged spread has set in
05:00 The Devil looks hot as he meets his first date

SEE ALSO
Shrek (2001) PDI/DreamWorks
Annie & Boo (2003) Johannes Weiland

Please note that only the first five minutes of My Date From Hell is included in the download.

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