Comments on: “Blood Trail” (Updated with interview and making-of)

By: LatinoMagic

LatinoMagic — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:35:39 +0000

I FIND THIS EXTREMELY INSULTING AND CHILDISH!
Some people actually enjoy sitting on a dildo after pulling it out of the cheerios.
Why do we have to take put these people down? I think we’re better than this.
Now please shake hands and let’s be friends.

god I love cheerios!

By: scud1

scud1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:14:20 +0000

This is actually quite terrible. Although descent on a technical level, the story (or at least the way the story was executed) is juvenile and pointless. It’s missing that element of absurdity that makes overly gorey scenes somewhat enjoyable, and winds up as just being bad taste. Unfortunately, this piece amounts to a complete waste of time and talent. I’m a fan of some of Nathan Love’s stuff, but this has to rank up there with one of the worst animated short films I’ve ever seen. And the fact that they are unable to handle criticism doesn’t help the situation. But hey, you win some. You lose some. You live to fight another day.

By: Matt Plummer

Matt Plummer — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:40:02 +0000

Dan + Nathan Love,

Please tell me why anyone aware of the greater internet dickwad theory would feel it appropriate to respond to said greater internet dickwads.

The internet’s a festering wormpit of opinions – and not all of them are going to be phrased by people who have the courtesy of associating their real name with their opinion. Which is fine – but leave the electric eel to looking ugly in it’s tank instead of diving in next time. Your work is good enough to generate fans to defend it for you.

i.e. people like manghangson, who hit the nail on the head.

Moving on, I enjoyed Blood Trail. Reminded me in ways of the stylised hyper violence of Beowulf. Suffers slightly through being so short, though I think the character style is really something special.

Looking forwards to seeing what else your studio come out with.
Regards from just another worm,

-Matt

By: Lilian Darmono

Lilian Darmono — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:50:34 +0000

I believe you meant to say : ‘The internet’s American’. Not : ‘The internets’ American’. Igor here speaks at least 2 languages quite well, Marc. How many do you speak?

By: microdot

microdot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:04:28 +0000

I love it all.

I’m afraid the only true winner here though is . . . the internet.

By: r3awak3n

r3awak3n — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:37:05 +0000

1. this thing is bad ass
2. I do not think its too violent. Shit, life is way more violent then this will ever be.
3. I cannot believe some people are so damn rude criticizing other peoples work. I would love to see some of their work
4. I cant believe people from the studio came here to defend themselves. You did not need to do that… That is actually pretty unprofessional.

By: mfh

mfh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:14:53 +0000

couldn’t agree more.

By: manghangson

manghangson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:06:56 +0000

Awesome….This all could have been avoided if Dbag#1 didn’t accuse Nathan Love of fabricating pseudonyms with the explicit purpose of pumping themselves up. If you’re asking me (which, of course you’re not), if your so opinionated that you cant fathom other people having dissenting opinions, and you need to make things up to discredit the positive reactions to it, you kiiiiind of deserve what comes your way. Dan (and NL) seems like a very proud person who stands by his work and cares strongly for what he puts his energy and time into. In this industry, making something great is like having a child, and he was just defending his baby. I dont think this detracts from his work, or the companies image. And if you think that it does, then youre probably turning away the type of talent that is included with people who have character and shooting yourself in the foot anyway.

By: Chowdaddy

Chowdaddy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:56:38 +0000

Wow what a bunch of tools over at Nathan Love. Completely fucking Amateur Hour. If I was Nathan I would toss this Dan guy out on his ass not matter how awesome his pixel fucking skills were. This dork single-handedly makes your studio look like a fucking joke no matter how spectacular the work is.

By: leahzero

leahzero — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:19:34 +0000

Unprofessional.