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Doctor P, Adam F & Method Man 'The Pit' by Mike Tyler

David Knight - 23rd Oct 2013

The momentous team-up of Doctor P, Adam F and Method Man with The Pit, gets a suitably blockbusting treatment by Mike Tyler - a blood-spattered mash-up of martial-arts, sci-fi and horror, rendered in old-school animation.

All kinds of grisly goings-on are happening in 'The Pit' involving a Jabba-style boss, robots with circular saws and zombified humans - until the grand-masters of hip-hop, drum 'n' bass' and dubstep enter the fray...

Mike Tyler's fellow Burning Reel director Richard Payne - renowned for his comic book-style videos and shorts – came on board as animation director and this was produced in six weeks, working with illustrator Adam Relf.

There was also a lot of live action shot before the animation, as Burning Reel's Joe Elliott explains: "Producing a piece for Method man was a huge dream of Mike's, being such a Wu-Tang and general hiphop fan of course, so there was obviously a huge amount of passion that went into the piece. A lot of the Burning Reel family got to act in the piece too - being various zombified humans which was fun."

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  • Animation
  • Mature - NSFW
  • Narrative
  • Promos
  • VFX
  • Hip hop, Hip Hop, Urban

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Mike Tyler
Production Company
Executive Producer
Cal Gordon

Animation

Animation
Richard Payne

Agent

Director's Representation

Commission

Label
Circus Records

Misc

Illustrator
Adam Relf
3D Animator
Aaron Moreno

Other credits

2D Backgrounds

John Lane

Robot Modelling

Simon Zaurrini

Robots Illustrators

Agri Kurniawan, Eko Puteh and Zefanya Langkan Maega

Cel Frame FX

Mathieu Scanlon, Kimberly Ray, John Lane and Mike Tyler

Colour Grading

Josh Callis-Smith and Mike Tyler

Production Assistant

Kaelan Ratcliffe

Reference photography

Mike Tyler

Sound Design

Tom Smith of Soundsmiths

David Knight - 23rd Oct 2013

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