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Servus

A epic tale set in a time of slavery and war

Animation by Michael J Dowswell
Music by Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Aspect Ratio: 1.25:1

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DIRECTORS STATEMENT
Four minutes of Servus have been completed, those four minutes I'm very pleased with. I found the ideal music for one sequence.
It's a project that I worked six months on, it's infamous like a few of the others because I put it on hold, but I will return to it.

Again here (before I started to create Servus) I felt that I wasn't putting enough detail into the shots on my previous films, but again thats
partly down tp the learning curve of a few things, you change as you go along as a director. Another thing was that
the computer speeds keep getting faster. In 2007 I got my first duel core processor and oddly just before that I'd also learned a lot about how to use
polygons a lot more efficiently. I was now able to work in a 3D file that didn't slow down and was able to push it up to the next notch in detail.

I have so many ideas at the moment (2008) it's just silly, and while your in that status, you have to get them out of your system.
so Servus went into hold status mid December 2007.

TRIVIA
-When Dowswell was in the very early stages of doing the giant hovercraft in May 2006, he sent a early render of it as a birthday card
to Andy Siems of the Hollywood Saloon.

-The long take city shot in Servus is a updated more detailed version of the same city that was designed for his first short "Rocket-Man"




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