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“Predators of the Sprawl: A Staggering Simian”, submitted by James Buran: A Channel Frederator Featured Film

April 27th, 2007

Episode 77

The fourth episode in the series from The Nursery, Director Jacob Reinstein writes in on the experiences making the film.

MELISSA: How did you come up with this idea?

JACOB: I came up with the idea for the film and the series in general from my experience as a native New Yorker. Ever since I can remember hordes of people with way more money then I or anyone I grew up with flock to my city to make it their home. The majority of these people are as stale and boring as they come and as soon as they get here start acting like they’ve been here forever. The show is a mock nature documentary about just such a city where the enviornment and the native flora and fauna is designed to entice and then feed on the invasive plagues of hipster locusts.

MELISSA: How long did the project take you to complete?

JACOB: The project took about 6 months from start to finish.

MELISSA: What do you do when you get stuck creatively?

JACOB: I never get stuck creativley I am a dynamo.

MELISSA: Haha. Good to hear! What was the most challenging part of the film to animate?

JACOB: The most challenging part to animate was the transformation sequence and the scenes directly after it.

MELISSA: What are you working on now?

JACOB: The Nursery is now hard at work on our new series “14th Dimension ER”

MELISSA: Who has influenced or inspired you?

JACOB: Our influences span the vastness of time and space as we pay homage to the great gurus and masters who haunt our dreams and mock us from beyond the grave with their unrelenting genius. Vaugh Bode, Goya, Heironymous Bosch, Heinrich Kley, Ub Iwerks, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Peter Bruegel the elder, Durer, Jack Kirby , Stan Lee, Phillip K. Dick, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Friz Frieling, Ray Harryhausen, Werner Herzog, Terry Gilliam, Mobieus, Eric Powell, Tomek Baginski, Otto Messmer, and the sights sounds smells and violence of the great city of New York. Thank you again for including us on the site, we are truly flattered be in the company of such exceptional work.