Character sketches

Concept 2015

Blackwood's absurd and black humorous universe is based on the dark folktales and the classics of early horror literature, like E.A. Poe and J. S. Le Fanu. The story universe is centralized around a fictional town called Blackwood. Blackwood resembles the atmosphere of a 19th century industrial city with its dark alleys, old cathedrals, eerie cemeteries, filthy sewers and huge factories coughing up black smoke. Blackwood is the home of many peculiar characters: all these anthropomorph, half human-half animal fellows have their own horrific, spooky absurd or terribly strange story. These funny and grotesque tales are the backbone of Blackwood's universe: the dark and absurd atmosphere of Poe meets The Busy World of Richard Scarry. Blackwood is not bound by the laws of reality. Although its stories take place in the beginning of a fictional material age, anything can happen: a decapitated journalist can carry on writing her article, one can be easily stabbed in the heart with a freshly cooked odorous frog leg and one can realize that his or her best friend is a vampire, who has an intention of eating the particular person for dinner.




crossmedia project

Genre: Victorian Fantasy Horror Comedy
Target audience: 12+
Platforms: TV, web, board game, computer and mobile game

Blackwood - How to Write a Blackwood Article

Some stills of my graduation film.

Director: Csaba Gellár

Script: Csaba Gellár

Writer: E. A. Poe

Narraton: Eszter Ónodi

Design: Csaba Gellár

Animator: Katalin Moré, Csaba Gellár

Backgrounds: Éva Katinka Bognár

Editor: Judit Czakó

Compositor: Csaba Gellár

Consultant: Rita Domonyi. József Fülöp

Producer: József Fülöp

Production manager:Krisztina Holló Leleszi

Festivals:

Monstra 2014, Lisboa - Student films competition

Anifilm 2014, Trebon - Student films competition

Mediawawe 2014

Sehsüchte International Film Festiva 2014 - official selection
Zlin Film festival 2014 - student films  competition

ANIMATOR  2014, Poznan - competition selection

Anima Mundi 2014 - international panorama (animation, of course!)

International Film Festival of Fine Arts, 2014, Szolnok - competition programme

3D Wire International Animation Festival 2014 - official intenational programme

Animest 2014, Bukarest - student competition

Be there! Corfu Animation Festival 2014 - short film competition

BAF 2014, Bradford - student films  competition

Cinanima 2014, Espinho  - graduation film competition

Bradford International Naimation Festival 2014, Bradford - student films  competition

Primanima 2014, Budaörs - graduation film competition

Animateka 2014, -panorama programme

Motivation

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! from Csaba Gellár on Vimeo.

Spooky sketches

Because of Halloween is coming.

Merry Christmas!

Blackwood - Merry Christmas! from Csaba Gellár on Vimeo.

Carriage design

Final design of a carriage and its driver from the streets of Blackwood.

Blackwood - poster

The official Blackwood-series poster.