If the teaser trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows didn't quite satisfy your craving for a mature take on the franchise, then maybe this fan short will do the trick.

Created by Miguel Díaz-Rivera and VXIII Productions, Ninja Turtles: Veterans of the Night pays homage to the early days of the heroes in a half-shell, both in terms of tone and look, with a decidedly more reptilian (and more grizzled) Leonard, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael than you're likely to ever see on screen.

It's obviously not a big-budget production, so there are definitely some rough edges -- and the approach to the fight scene borrows heavily from anime, arriving at a solution that undoubtedly saved on time and cost. But there's a lot here to enjoy.

(via io9.com)