Spirit Chaser

2016 AnimationMusic 4 minutes Directed by Karl Pajak

About Spirit Chaser

A fox with a guitar tries to free a spirit trapped in an ancient amplifier, in a chip-rock musical.

Cast & crew

More about Spirit Chaser

Karl Pajak made it as his thesis film at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He dated the film May 15, 2016, and posted it on his channel pajakinthebox on May 26, 2016. The picture runs 4 minutes 27 seconds. He credited the music to his project Speakerfox.

Themes

  • a guitar against a machine
  • a trapped spirit
  • a song with no dialogue
  • fox
  • guitar
  • amplifier
  • spirit
  • chip rock
  • thesis film

Making

Pajak pointed viewers to karlpajak.com and to Speakerfox on Spotify for more of the same music.

Music

Karl Pajak recorded the chip-rock score as Speakerfox. The track is on the EP The Cabin Tapes.

Preservation

Pajak posted the film himself in May 2016. A 4-minute-27-second file is on Wikimedia Commons, taken from the Vimeo upload.

Notes

  • Pajak's own line for it is "a chip rock musical kinda thing.
  • The song sits on the Speakerfox release The Cabin Tapes, also on Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
  • A Crowne Prince breakdown identifies the character animation as TVPaint work, from the textured ink lines.
  • Wikimedia Commons carries a 1080p copy under the title Karl Pajak - Spirit Chaser (2016).

Scenes

  • The fox faces the amplifier monolith with his guitar.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (vimeo-166747691)