Online Epic to Release Penultimate Episode

Brokensaint writes "The award-winning 3-year epic 'Broken Saints' is preparing to launch it's 23rd installment in its cult hit saga. Winner of the Sundance Online Film Festival Audience Award for Animation, 'Broken Saints' contains over 10 hours of original flash storytelling in 'cinematic literature' format (think animated comic). Having been seen by over 2 million people worldwide, this free web project will be launching the penultimate episode in the series next week, and will close out its run with a 1 hour finale in June. 'Broken Saints' follows the paths of four protagonists from different cultures that receive an ominous vision of the future - a vision that is somehow tied to the launching of a global telecommunications network. One of the main characters - the Muslim mercenary Oran - was created as a direct protest of the continued sanctions against the nation of Iraq. His role in the story chillingly mirrors the direction of current global events. The 3-person team from North Vancouver, Canada hopes to release a tradition graphic novel and DVD box set of the series by Christmas 2003. They are also in talks with production companies ranging from HBO to the Sci-Fi Network to do a mini-series adaptation of the epic. If you want to help the lads chip away at their mounting bandwidth bills, please consider dropping a dime in their kitty."

Comments

Broken Saints (First Post?!)

[Bodrius]

I love Broken Saints, it's one of the best WORKING examples of using the web to deliver dramatic media.

They're utterly deserving of whatever graphic Slashdot brings to the site.

However, I don't think "Penultimate Episode About to Be Release Soon, But Not Yet!" is "news", even in the Slashdot sense.

As a link, cool. The press-release feel of the post is kind of silly, though.

Re:Broken Saints (First Post?!)

[CyberWolf]

For those of you that do not live in North Vancouver, Broken Saints gets their funding for their site in two ways (that I am aware of).

1) Donations
2) Every three to four months, a benefit concert is held in the North Shore (aka North Vancouver) with some (if not all) the profits going to Broken Saints. Most of the bands are indies, but there have been a couple of bands that even I recognized (I mostly listen to country, so I am not up to date on metal/grunge/techno/etc).

BTW, I believe that another party is in the works, after /. gets thru with their site :)

Re:Flash bad for long form animation?

[conway]

You can't jump around, but you can pause it by right-clicking on the flash animation, and unchecking "Play".

Re:Flash bad for long form animation?

[The Evil Couch]

how else are you going to get high quality movies that are 10-30 minutes long to fit in a 10-20 meg package? you can pause flash animation by right clicking and unchecking play, but I don't know of an easy way to navigate around, which is why several of their longer episodes were released in several pieces, so you didn't have to try to watch them all in one sitting. there might be a more efficient way to do it, but their method works fairly well