It Grows Dark

A project in Chicago, IL by Benjamin Capps
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It Grows Dark is the first in a series of short, surrealist Sci-Fi Body-Horror films combining live action and stop motion animation.
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Funded: $3,486 of $3,000
Dates: Mar 20th -> Apr 19th (30 days)
Project By: Benjamin Capps
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Latest News

$147 away from funding!!

April 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you to all who beleive in this project.  Three days to go! Ben  (Read More)

Tele-C Booth panel wall completed

April 10th - via: kickstarter.com
I completed the second backlit plexi wall for the Tele-C Booth and am now beginning to frame it out.   The Tele-C is a retro 70's futurist video telephone booth, in which the conflict of the story of "It Grows Dark" is introduced.  My circa... (Read More)

Ten Second Animation Tests

April 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Animated by Benjamin Capps and Jennifer Allen  Animated by Benjamin Capps  Animated by Benjamin Capps  Animated  by Benjamin Capps.  With Jennifer Allen.  Animated by Benjamin Capps and Jennifer Allen.  Animated by Benjamin Capps  (Read More)

A second plexiglass Tele-C Booth panel

April 6th - via: kickstarter.com
I have a second wall for the vidphone booth complete!  Framing...  (Read More)

Set construction 1

April 5th - via: kickstarter.com
This evening I finished framing the first of two sections of Plexiglas wall panel for the Tele-C vidphone booth.  Ultimately the back-lighting will be done with a softbox.  I had acquired almost twenty sheets of yellow, semi-opaque acrylic for... (Read More)

Imitation of the Dream

April 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral... (Read More)

Set construction 1 and puppets!

March 26th - via: kickstarter.com
We are now entering the second week of It Grows Dark on Kickstarter and are 22% funded.  Thank you to all who have contributed and we have a long way yet to go. This weekend I began preliminary set construction toward the Tele-C booth: the video... (Read More)

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