Coming off of a successful festival run, including a premiere at Fantasia ’21 and an award for Best Artistry at Fantastic Fest ’21, End Cue, Nice Try and Encyclopedia Pictura have released their animated short film Sunbelly on science fiction platform Dust, with the trailer available on Adult Swim’s Toonami digital platforms.
Written, directed, and created by Jordan Speer with a lively score by composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Sunbelly features a space-faring dog who investigates the surface of a dead planet in the distant future — leading to a dangerous encounter and the discovery of her own kind’s tragic forgotten history — ultimately revealing a hopeful path forward.
You can watch the full 16-minute Sunbelly short on Dust’s YouTube channel and Facebook Watch page.
Check out the #Toonami featured trailer for Sunbelly!
Watch now at: https://t.co/TrIvzwtxAU pic.twitter.com/fP7JejEyfU
— Swimpedia (@swimpedia) August 7, 2022
Jordan Speer is an artist and animator based in Louisville, Kentucky. He has honed and trailblazed a unique visual style through his animated 3D work, which can be seen in a wide array of media from music videos to poster designs to art direction for SpongeBob SquarePants to websites like Adult Swim, Vice and Bloomberg. His work has also appeared on Brain Dead’s Mutant Sequencer program. For more of his work, visit www.beef.zone.
End Cue is a film production company located in Culver City, Calif., founded by Andrew and Walter Kostchak. Recent development and production projects with rising filmmakers include The Art of Self-Defense and Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project. (endcue.com)
Nice Try. is the production banner of film/TV producer and writer Alex Plapinger, who specializes in collaborating with emerging artists working at the intersection of animation, comedy and indie film. Plapinger recently produced multiple projects for FXX’s Cake, showran the SyFy/Peacock animated series Wild Life and is currently producing and writing multiple series through a first look deal at FX as well as a variety of features and series with partners including Amazon, Adult Swim and A24. (nicetry.co)
Encyclopedia Pictura is a film and animation studio in Glassell Park, Los Angeles led by directors Isaiah Saxon, Daren Rabinovitch and Sean Hellfritsch. Having worked with Bjork, Dan Deacon, Dirty Projectors, Kanye West, MTV and Cartoon Network, they are currently working on a live-action feature for A24 and an animated preschool series with Apple. (encyclopediapictura.com)
