Bridge IV - Stormlight Archive - Cosmere Animation
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- My name is Mateusz Feliks (CGIMati), and I am a huge fan of the Cosmere universe created by Brandon Sanderson. This short is inspired by the Stormlight Archive books. I worked alone on this project. All you see is the work of one guy (not counting the music and sound design).
I decided to create some short animated films in Cosmere. I hope, you will like it :D
The project is 100% fan-made (this is not an official video) for free in my free time.
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Instagram - / cgimati
Facebook - / cgimati
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Our little bridge team:
Animation/Direction/Visuals - Mateusz Feliks (CGIMati)
Music - Aleksander Pankowski Vel Jankowski:
/ apvjmusic
www.apvj.pl
Sound Design - Julia Konarczak
Sylphrena voice - Vera Tan
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Contact:
kontakt@creoflame.pl
Wow! This is some incredible work... 2 deaths? Good run by all standards. Life Before Death, Radiant.
I counted 3 :D
I'm pretty sure the bridges in the books were much larger with larger teams, like usually no less than 25.
@@chandlerrenteria9043 Kal team was short of manpower and they were 17 when some of then were sick
@@genericname6167 I'm going through the book again and it said no less than 25 with a full team being 40. Also there should be people actually under the bridge. Kaladin described grooves for shoulders and a grill to look through in the front position
@@CGIMati what about the guy that fell down the gorge? Was he the last person to get shot in the previous frame? But that guy was pretty far from the edge so I don't think that was the case🤔
No matter how much Sanderson I read, nothing gets me quite like anything and everything Bridge Four-which you capture brilliantly here. So, so good
thanks :D
Yep still my favourite part of any book series!
Bridge 4 is wild. I’ll never forget it.
This is fantastic and brutal. I have always preferred the idea of a SA adaptation being live action, but if it were animated similarly to this I would be all for it!
I'm very glad you like it :D
I considered live action to be inferior to animation. The Stormlight Archive should be animation.
@@HD-mp6yy I dont agree that animation is overall better than live action but I fully believe SA should be animated, I dont think you could accomplish what the book does on live action.
I keep saying I want the people who animated love death and robots the Zima blue and ice episode specifically
Weird, I've always considered animation as a no-brainer for Stormlight.
It's just not practical in live action unless you ger an enormous budget.
One arrow almost hit that Moash guy! Good thing it missed!
Im on the chapter "swordmaster", I think it's around ch17 in words of radiance. I like moash, surely he becomes a pivotal member in dalinars bridge 4 guard
@@biggusriggus7693 Pivotal - absolutely!
@lobstrosity7163 I found out what you mean by pivotal...knew my boy was damaged but wasn't expecting him to be colluding with Adolins ex and some light eyed fop
@@biggusriggus7693 Oh sweet innocent child.... 😂
@nikoquizzer8432 yea, I've learned now. Just started Rhythm of War. So almost caught up in Stormlight aside from Warbreaker. It's all so damn good 😭
Damn....this actually makes me want to see an entire animated movie/series. I can't imagine how incredible it would be with Arcane style animation. Even a CGI style like this would be incredible.
Now i,m working on next animation
I started to animate the series and you can Watch the prelude on my channel. But it‘s fairly bad and not nearly as good as this one. But I am trying to get there ;)
I like how how you did Syl. This is the thing I worry about the most for a potential SA adaptation - the spren could make the world look terribly awkward if not done right. But yours feel right somehow.
Thanks :D
I just realized how Kaladin always survived the hail of arrows from the Parshendi.
Dude was using his Windrunner abilities unconcoiously.
Yup. This is heavily implied. On one of the runs he yells “Tien” in desperation sees that the Parshendi seem surprised by what is happening. He used Reverse Lashing to make the bridge attract the arrows.
its heavily implied in the way of kings that that's exactly what was happening. kal was infusing the bridge with light causing the arrows to be attracted to it and thus avoiding him. he just didn't realize he was doing it. it's even mentioned I think that Kaladin would return from bridge runs and find all his spheres would be dun despite just being recently infused.
@@austinblades8903 I always thought it was plot armor and simply shrugged it off at first lmao
@@austinblades8903it's been a while since I read the books but yes I will confirm that was what was happening
You just realized that?
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I actually gasped when the bridgeman fell in the chasm. That whole vid was so stunning
Congratulations! I am happy that I could participate in this project as a music composer and I can't wait for the next one!
Thanks so much for having me! It looks absolutely gorgeous :D
Good stuff.
Dude this was amazing!
I have a hard time visualizing while reading, so this was serious such a pleasure to watch (despite being so brutal!) I always wondered how the bridge runs might look, and now I know! Thanks mate
So that's how the bridge look. I have had trouble imagining it everytime I think about it. It doesn't make sense what I imagined. Yours, it made absolute sense. Thanks!
I was wondering how they got it over the chasm and prevented it from falling in.
I don't think it's 100% accurate--TWoK describes it having grooves for the bridgemen, and Bridge Four's side carry maneuver never would have worked to block arrows with all that open space between the spokes in the animation. But otherwise I'd say it gets the general idea.
The best SLA animation i have seen yet!
I hope Brandon gets to see this.
Thank you.
It is sad how excited I felt at that. How ever when the, inevitable, Stormlight series is made, I hope it has the passion the books have.
I did an animation of the prelude of you are interested. It’s by far not as good as this one but still
Amazing work! You really showed the brutality and intensity of the runs. When the man falls down the chasm and its zooms out to the bridge sliding over the chasm, absolute perfection
SOO cool! What a great project! PLEASE depict another stormlight or cosmere scene in a future project!!
It's very enjoyable to see something like this! Excellent job! So neat to see anything from the Stormlight Archive depicted on the screen :)
I will :D
the detail of Syl turning into a leave was amazing, great job!
Super cool, I especially love the spren at the beginning.
Bro if a small team with small budget can create these kind of animation. Imagine a big studio, showing the love cosmere deserves. It would instantly beat all the show records if it remains faithful to the books.
I would love if all the Cosmere got adapted into an Anime. Live action would be great but I feel like anime style would be the best medium to bring these books to life, especially mistborn and Stormlight.
So dope. Just needs some battle cries and parshendi singing 👍
Dude this is so awesome. This is the first time I really got an idea of how the briges looked like
This reminds me of a blizzard cutscene, and I mean that in the best way possible
This gave me chills and took my breath away! You brought Bridge Four to life! Thank you! 😭😭😭❤❤❤
Amazing work, congratulations to every participant in this beautiful animation, I loved the Syl transition and the exhaustion and hopelessness on Kaladin's face
This would be such a good live action series. Especially the scene fighting Szeth and Kaladin in the high storm.
Thank you for this it is absolutely stunning!
That Syl transformation was so clean
Man! The feels on this puppy! So good!
Literal goosebumps, amazing facial animation!
Astounding. Im not sure I entirely agree with the colouring, but thats probably just a difference in the way we've imagined it
Oh storms this is amazing! I got chills! I've always wanted a live-action Stormlight, but you have just changed my mind. A CGI film would look awesome too. I was so disappointed to see this end, I kept waiting for more haha. If an unofficial fan vid made me feel this hyped up, imagine what would the official trailer do, no matter the medium.
Once again, thank you so much! I immensely enjoyed the sixty-one seconds I spent watching this. No doubt I will enjoy all my rewatches too.
Just read this chapter last night so this is awesome to see now.
This is the future. Well done!!!
This is amazing. I can't believe how many good Sanderson fan animations there are.
Wow, this is so very well done! The run, the struggle, the deaths... Amazing work.
The shattered plains looks amazing just how I pictured it. I feel like the animation itself was missing something though maybe smoothness but I'm not an animator or artist. All in all great video
it was definitely missing battle cries, parshendi singing, and scream of people dying and exertion
this was so well done. i'm not a big fan of anything post book 2 in stormlight archive but these scenes of bridge four traversing the chasms will always stand out to me.
Not how I imagined it, but bloody beautiful. Thank you!
Wow, this was great.
Excellent work. I always thought it is impossible to adapt stormlight archive. The shattered plains, spren and different beasts. But after seeing this I have hope.
Yeah definitely Avatar level budget to make it right, but it can be made
Raw and brutal. Put me right back in my first read of the book
Thank you for this wonderful animation. You have caused me to listen to the first 2 books in the last 3 weeks.
Hahhaha, glad to hear! :D
really well done! only thing missing is maybe 3 or 4x more dead bridgemen
This is amazing! The one criticism I have is that the bridge crew seems to be walking quite slowly, compared to them sprinting/running as fast as they could in the book. But that’s rather minor compared to the overall quality of the animation
EXACTLY how I imagined the bridge runs in my mind!
This does make more sense for the build of the bridges than what I had in my head…but I still want to see a wooden trestle span bridge wide enough for two war horses to ride side by side across a 40ft wide chasm, which is more of my personal head cannon. Still, very nicely done!!
Damn good animation! Very close to how I imagined it. Then again, Brandon is a master of his art!
I just finished The Way of the Kings, and that's exactly how I imagined it. Good stuff
Whoa! What have I been missing out? This is so so fantastic. The best depiction of Bridge 4 that I could ever imagine. So good!
But the bridge isn't book accurate
@@tomraineofmagigor3499 I could always say that it is the next best thing that comes along as much as creativity is concerned.
Incredible! I hope we get to see more.
Damn I love this, seriously any Stormlight Archive animation is a massive W for the fanbase
Really puts into perspective the horrible struggle bridgemen go through. It would def be the honor chasm for me mate.
Absolutely stunning work
I literally have the bridge 4 symbol tattooed on my arm. Thank you for this
Food before starvin - Lift
I really enjoyed this! I eagerly await more of these :) Can you share a little bit about the tools you use and your workflow?
How dare you make this so good! I want more so badly now
Bro, what a incredible video, really, it was really emotive to see. Amazing
Super udźwiękowienie :D
This is absolutely awesome!
I didn't know I needed this in my life.
Don’t understand why there isn’t an Anime of Stormlight yet
Because Brandon doesn't know me hahahahah :D
What is this quality, it's insane. It can't be amateur.
Dude that was awesome, can't wait for more... :P
Perfect moment in time for an amazing story!
I love stormlight archive. Thanks for such a good animation!
That was storming fantastic.
I'd like to know how they keep the top from dipping down as it rolls over the void of the chasm. It seems like they'd need a lot of downward pressure on the backend to avoid that.
Great work. Thank you, man with a conplicated name. Journey before destination.
This was great!
Personally though, I always pictured smaller bridges, with the bridgemen much more closely packed, since they have to be able to side-carry the bridge. This felt like a weird amalgamation of Sadeas' bridges combined with the Kholin bridges.
more please more. never stop
I cant stop watching this! Wow, amazing!
Wow this is amazing. Keep making more SA stuff man. Your channel can be THE channel for visually looking at cool and important scenes from the books. Maybe Sanderson will contract you one day for some work too.
Brilliant realisation. I've attempted modelling the landscape but this is perfect. I hope you do a chasmfiend next.
Keep more coming bud if you can and... you've earned a sub just for this.
phenomenal work
I wonder if these guys got PTO?
This animation is amazing, instant goosebumps!!!
Great work, I bet this took a lot of effort! It came out fantastic!
This is good. More of this please.
Glorious. What a animation
Awesome work. Add a few more men to that one man team and you've got a stew goin' baby.
Hah, yeeeeh :D
Damn this was crazy! Awesome work
Amazing work! Congrats.
This is amazing, well done.
The bridgemen actually also carried the bridge from below as well as the sides.
Check out the chasm bridge concept art.
That was really good! Great job!
Oh my god how do you only have like 150 subs?!?!? That was such a good animation!
This is incredible
Fantastic job dude! I love syl becoming a ribbon of light. And the facial animations are really impressive. (I don't know much about animation but I know faces are hard.) I also like the body falling in the chasm.
They only thing I would like to criticize is the running animation during the wideshots seems to be the same for every model. Sorry I'm not an animator so I don't have a solution for this. But this is by far the best Stormlight animation I've seen on TH-cam so far.
This is so amazing. Journey before destination!
And Strength before Weakness!
You already got more scenes right than the show wheel of time did for it's books. If only everyone respected the IP like you did
THIS IS SO DOPE!!!!!!!!!!!
i need more
Beautiful animation! You should b real proud of this!
I pray every day that HBO or Hollywood doesn't put its disgusting grubby mits on this wonderful IP. What T.V. has done to LOTR is disgusting.
Wow, this is amazing!
DAAAAAAMN THID WAS SOOOO GOOD. Amazing stuff man, congrats
Thank you!
This i brilliant.
I fell like the bridge 4 story arc made the way of kings so much better than any of the ones that follow(so far) we need to get back to that victory of the human spirit not the victory of the super powers
This is awesome! Looking forward to more!