Black Sails Torture

Starz

Credits

Creative Director

Matt Hoelter

Art Director

Hilary Buchanan

Design

Hilary Buchanan

Animation

Rich Seemueller, Chris Schoenman

When Magelyn was contacted by our friends over at The Pixel Park to assist with the animation of a project for Starz, I was excited. When I found out it was for Black Sails, I was giddy. I mean, what explorer doesn’t want to do work about pirates?! Then they told me it was about torture and I…. well, I was honestly a little creeped out by it at first. But then I pretty quickly remembered it was about friggin’ pirates! PXPK brought their A-game on the design and layouts and then Magelyn set sail into the animation oceans to bring it all to life. The result is a piece that makes us feel like if we were pirates, we’d probably try really hard to get along with all of the the other pirates.