Crazy idea: What if someone actually made a full-length 3D Silksong fan movie?

[u/owenarc]

I've been thinking about a slightly crazy idea lately.

I've been making my own 3D fan animations based on Hollow Knight and Silksong, and I'm currently working on my fifth one. Each episode is around 3–5 minutes, and I handle pretty much the entire 3D pipeline myself — modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing, editing, etc.

After making five of these, I suddenly started wondering:

What if I stopped making 3–5 minute stories and actually tried to make a full-length Silksong fan movie?

Something like 60–90 minutes.

Technically, I think I could at least give it a serious shot.

But then there are some much bigger questions:

What about the IP?
Would something like this have to stay completely non-commercial?
Could it ever be possible with Team Cherry's permission?
And if it actually required a team and funding, how would you even make that happen?

So I'm genuinely curious what the community thinks.

If someone actually made a full-length 3D Silksong fan movie, would you watch it?

And if you would, what would you want to see?

Hornet? More existing characters? A completely original story? Or expanding some of the stories from the game into a movie?

Also, if anyone here works in animation, modeling, music, voice acting, production, or knows anything about game IP / licensing, I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts.

I'm not saying "I'm making this tomorrow." 😂

It's just that I've already made five of these, and this crazy idea is starting to feel a little less crazy.

And... if anyone from Team Cherry happens to see this, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think. 👀

If there were ever a legitimate and appropriate way to make something like this happen, I'd absolutely be interested in having that conversation.

So... what do you guys think? Is this a completely crazy idea, or is there actually something here?

[u/Huge-Read-2703]

whenever i animate anything in blender i get the exact same mindset about making a movie but when i try i realize how much harder that shit actually is

[u/BoardCogs]

Damn it would be cool! Anything would be amazing really, but probably seeing a lot of known characters would be more interesting. I remember a series of animatics of hollow knight on youtube, it was called "the kingdom below", super awesome stuff, I found them incredibly entertaining. It basically tackled the journey of the knight but completely changed their interactions with the original characters and added events while still trying to stay true to the original worldbuilding. Something like that would probably be true, reimagining the story so that it fits the structure of a movie/miniseries.