, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."

- The Nemedian Chronicles.

This was the film project I completed for my third year in Computer Animation and Digital Art, which also happened to be the centenary of Robert E. Howard's birth. It was intended as a tribute to of his most famous son, Conan of Cimmeria, in the form of an animated illustration of the famous Nemedian Chronicles.

Not everything is my own work - I used some stock models and presets for a few elements like Conan's armour and sword, a result of not having enough time to construct my own for the project. Some day I hope to come back and do this again with my own models.

Programs used were Poser, Bryce, Lightwave, Photoshop CS, After Effects, & Audacity.

Music is "Kull the Conquerer, Main Theme" by Joel Goldsmith.

Text from "The Phoenix on the Sword" by Robert E. Howard.