BLOODWORLD: Tochi Osuji’s World-Building Art Book Needs Your Help!
Filmmaker Tochi Osuji has been on my radar for about six years now, having directed shorts like “Pond” and test fight piece “Nancy Drew & The Case of the Missing Food at Feirstein.” Nowadays, he’s eyeing the development of his own animated series, in the form of Bloodworld, with a campaign to raise funds to create an artbook with the employment of professional artists to help expand the world through quality imagery.
Billed as a poetic screed against wealth and income inequality, Bloodworld is set in ancient Timbuktu, where a young miner manages to escape the cycle of poverty by climbing the ranks as a prizefighter, only then to be confronted by the choice of either living in his riches or using his skills to even the odds for his people, against a predatory king who secretly steals the blood of his subjects at night for his own empowerment.
Osuji’s description at the campaign’s Kickstarter page applies even more detail about the science behind blood and its pertinent place in the story of Bloodworld. The lore itself is interesting and with a crucial, large-scale message that I think anyone who is keen on arts, entertainment, and economics to a degree can relate to, and there are 28 days left as of this article to help support the campaign before it ends, so click here and check it out!
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