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It started out modestly enough; a handful of CG artists banding together to make a few hi-def stills for the rifters fan-art gallery<\/a>. Then it grew into a kind of Blindsight<\/em> fan site; then a faux trailer for a movie adaptation that did not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, a short film in its own right: snatches of Blindsight<\/em> recalled by Siri Keeton during one of his waking interludes in the aftermath of that novel. Spectacular highlights arranged in reverse order, Memento<\/em>-like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four years they’ve been working on this: some forty people scattered around the world, eking out time on weekends and in the wee hours. A month and a half of solid number-crunching on home machines while the meat slept, just to render sequences that had already spent years in development. Web designers and storyboard artists and voice actors and CGeniuses: squeezing in an hour here and there around the edges of their lives. At this end, dire warnings from (former) agents about how my endorsement of such a project could jeopardize option deals (fan-made noncommercial status notwithstanding, potential interests might regard such a project as an IP infringement): averted when said interests visited the site themselves, and came away unthreatened and delighted. Four years of intermittent back-and-forth while the project took shape; four years of being told, gently but firmly, that No you can show them <\/em>this but you can’t show them <\/em>that just yet, we’re not ready.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now they’re ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n