A Fistful of Presents (2015) was my senior thesis film for Ringling College of Art and Design. It won first place in the animation category at the Josiah Media Festival, and was a selection in about a dozen other festivals. It also was a part of the prestigious Best of Ringling show, and was dubbed by fans in Japanese.
The FILM
Hi, I'm Cole Clark and thanks for watching my film, A Fistful of Presents! I carefully crafted every pixel of every frame from the initial storyboards to animation and final color grading. I hope people watching A Fistful of Presents experience the creative and cinematic vision I designed the film to have. Westerns and Holiday films separately have an amazing lineage, and I hope A Fistful of Presents serves as an intelligent response to both. In a pastiche mix-up between holiday films and Spaghetti Westerns, an outlaw confronts Santa on Christmas eve in the old west. The outlaw, reeling from painful memories of receiving coal for Christmas wants revenge. Santa, on the other hand, is not afraid of violence and has other plans.
I'd love to hear from you! You can reach me at:
colevfx@gmail.com
coleclark.com
Voice Talent: Peter Leake and Adam Ratner
Music by Corey Wallace | http://coreywallace.com/
Sound Design by Mutante Media | http://mutantemedia.com/
