Secret Sambakza

Those of you who've read past posts may remember me talking out the online animations created by korean group Sambakza. The Sambakza story developed again last night.

So just before logging off last night I got a message from my good friend Phil Robinson saying that he'd found something else made by the group. Phil, knowing my interest in Sambakza had been looking to see if there were any more to the current story that is being told on the site. Well, what he actually found was, as we concluded, kind of like a "Step 0", a concept piece which seems to have been a test of the ideas though we then found the official name was "Hot Fish - The Same But Different".

I watched it through and yes, it does seem a bit cheesey and a dated when you think about it; it's also very Korean in it's style and ideas though, at the end of the day, it is still Sambakza. The artwork is different to that though you still get tastes of the current styling trying to break through. A good little animation to look back on...

You can watch "Step 0" / "Hot Fish - The Same But Different" here.

Josh. x