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 […]