FICC. This Friday ‘Pliegos de cordel’ will be presented, a transmedia animation project by Andrés Guevara
The Cartagena International Film Festival (FICC) will be the stage for the presentation in the region of Murcia of ‘Pliegos de cordel’, a transmedian animation project of dramatic fiction, inspired by ‘neowestern’ and set in 19th century Spain. Created by Murcian director Andrés Guevara, the project includes a 3D animated series, expanded with expansions into a comic, a video game and a role-playing game, and has already attracted attention in specialized competitions such as Iberseries and Weird Market.
The presentation of the project is this Friday at 7 pm in El Soldadito de Plomo coffee bar (Príncipe de Vergara street, Cartagena). During the event, the ‘teaser’ of the project will be shown and the director will answer questions from the press and the audience.
The name ‘Pliegos de cordel’ refers to an old form of Spanish popular literature, comparable to the American ‘pulp fiction’ or the English ‘penny dreadful’, which included stories about bandits and criminals who turned into myths.
The series dedicates each season to a character or event in a monographic and self-closing fashion, with links between one storyline and another. Video games, comics and role-playing games serve to develop ‘spin-offs’ and extensions of the main canon, while the video game allows total immersion in its world and adventures. The transmedia universe can thus expand infinitely.
The project is executed in stylized 3D animation, visually inspired by art of the 19th century (romanticism, modernism, orientalism) and by the great European and Latin American comics artists of the 20th century, such as Giraud, Liberatore or Giménez. Technically, the production will use tools based on R+D+i, such as artificial intelligence, video game engines, and motion and facial capture.
In the first season, Ramón ‘El Vasco’ gang escapes from Cartagena Prison where they are imprisoned. During the search for the fleeing group, the bailiffs, police officers, vigilantes and bounty hunters, supported by some smugglers, horse dealers and arms dealers, manage to attack the train that is bringing in the payroll of the La Unión mines. Later in the series, a massive flood is seen, known today as a DANA and a confrontation in Jumilla.
A documented series that has studied action sequences, mainly knife and stick combat, in the first season, so that they are coherent with the narrative universe and the story itself. In addition, this homage to the genre also includes fast-paced scenes of horseback chases.
Source: La Verdad
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