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vincent rené lortie’s short film, invincible, has been nominated in the best live action short film category, at the 96th academy awards®. this is the latest in 25 or so awards including international special jury prize at the 2023 clermont-ferrand International short film festival.

needless to say these are the first posters we’ve made for a film with an oscar nomination. a huge congratulations to vincent, samuel, élise and everyone at h264 distribution.

you can read more about the making of the posters here. the film has since been made a vimeo staff pick, and you can watch it here:

recently we decided to revisit one of our first websites and revamp it a bit. it’s a site that continues to attract people’s attention and represented, back then, our first truly experimental work. we were given carte blanche to make the site any way we wanted, and in our miserable, dank, little east-london bedrooms, it meant a great deal to us to finally be able to prove our worth.

that said, we believe hugely in the ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ dogma and so have made the following respectful list of subtle changes to the site that we feel were only necessary to keep it breathing and satisfying its users.

1. actionscript 3 codebase
2. xml driven content
3. h264 video
4. additional ‘water colour’ interactive ‘sketch book’
5. full screen functionality
6. UI speed increase
7. new backdrop ‘studio photos’
8. higher quality exports of ‘day’ and ‘night’ short films

we hope, if you were a fan before, that you enjoy the upgrade. for those of you who’ve never seen the site before, we hope it finds a new and satisfied audience, and of course does a handsome job of introducing you to the artist’s work.

thomasnewbolt.com