"Minushi": D.I.Y. Flash-Animated Feature Film Launches Online

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Tyler Gibb, a 31-year-old Montreal-based
animator, has spent the last four years toiling away by hand on his
flash-animated 2-D feature "Minushi." But rather than travel the film
festival circuit or pitch the movie to conventional distributors, Gibb
is drumming up buzz for the project on the web.

A
dystopian sci-fi adventure, "Minushi" chronicles the adventures of
Trixi, an orphan girl on the search for her long lost brother in an
Orwellian near-future, complete with giant robots and a corrupt
and ruthless military. Gibb has posted about half of the movie at minushi.com (the first ten of a total of 19 chapters). You can also watch the YouTube trailer here (or to the left).

Gibb
says his unique strategy came as a result of his previous web efforts.
After studying Design and Fine Arts at Montreal's Concordia University,
he developed the animation website Boneland.com and developed two highly popular, sadistic little interactive flash animations, 1998's "The Stress Relief Aquarium" and 2000's "Alcohol and Ammo" (both of which involve torturing, by turns, a goldfish and a hick, with the click of a mouse).

"I
just kind of stumbled into a comfortable place online making shorts,"
he says. "And when I woke up one day and found that I'd written a
100-page script, it was just a natural inclination at that point to
look at it as a web project."