The Summoning of the Skylark

“The Summoning of the Skylark” (2015) is the first short film created by Cool 3D World. It follows a mysterious female entity who recruits three beings to help summon a holy skylark. Throughout their ritual, the music intensifies while bodies and faces morph or distort, developing animalistic features. When these entities reach their final form, a layer of the grotesque digital world is peeled back to reveal a special bond between these menacing creatures. The piece was created in now-dated software, but it served as a roadmap for themes and ideas that would be explored at great length in Cool 3D World’s work in the years following. Magic, fantasy, distorted realities, humor, and the marriage of music with animation are all essential to the creation of Cool 3D World films.