BRAVE CREATURES PRODUCTION.
WORLD DIVIDED The short takes place in the fantasy land of Elysia, just as war breaks out between the fairy and eagle kingdoms
the conflict between them. So, there’s a backdrop for a series I’ve been tinkering with. I was talking with some producers in LA that I’d worked with. We were getting a pitch together and I was made aware of Epic Games, which makes this very cool software that we were already using for certain things. Epic was looking for creatives to give project grants out to, to push the use of Unreal Engine.”
“I think when I moved to the UK and started to walk in the woods and go around the British Isles, I’d see all these beautiful landscapes and how it inspired the likes of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings . It was like closing a circle for me – I could see the clear interconnection between fairy stories and the land.” Valdez explains how many years ago he had “the idea to do something in this setting,” and has now finally managed to realise that project. “I asked myself: ‘What if fairies were just creatures that needed to survive, rather than these magical beings in mythology?’ Not out of a dogma about
realism but as an exploration of what it’s like to be that small.” The ideas originated before the pandemic, but came at a time when Valdez could sense echoes of the Roman Empire in the real world. “There are still empires in our world, so the basic concept was an empire of winged fairies and the relationship between them and birds, for example –
“Epic was looking for creatives to give project grants out to, to push the use of Unreal Engine”
See how the magic is made
Follow the link to watch some behind- the-scenes footage on the making of Brave Creatures .
definitionmagazine.com/features/ brave-creatures
53. AUGUST 2023
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