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The Worlds

The Hunt is a horror short film by Diogo Costa, produced by COLA Animation, Studio Kimchi, Studio Unkai, and Blauw Films. This atmospheric animated short follows a group of soldiers lost in the woods, haunted by past trauma and hunted by unseen forces. Discover the full story, art and production details behind The Hunt — now at Blauw Films.

The Hunt

Horror

Operation: Deli Platter is a 3D animated world covering high stakes special operations! With global news spreading of the mysterious Deli Platter, the army is left with no choice but to send their elite force into a battlefield of conspiracies.

Operation: Deli Platter

Action

Apple Rot is uncanny horror short film that invites strange dreams into your life... From the moment you started eating apples from the Genesis Orchard, reality and imagination have blurred into a complete fog...

Apple Rot

Horror

Syntactic Labyrinths is a 3D animated science fiction film in which we explore the collective knowledge of humanity which has found its sanctuary aboard the Library, a spacecraft overseen by the two supercomputers THINKER and RECEIVER. With all of our collective knowledge transformed into digital syntax, it's only the question whether the supercomputers understand its meaning.

Syntactic Labyrinths

Science Fiction

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Building Original Worlds

Bold stories across film, fiction, games and art, built with from creative purity.

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^[1]: Dreams of Blauw are any form of crystallised thought based on honest expression. Sometimes they linger a shade of blue in your after-image.