My lack of great enthusiasm certainly has nothing to do with the great artwork. Later, the child grows and by the end of the film, in a quiet moment with his grandson, he tries to pass on his love of flight to the next generation of cute but big-headed kids! I see that there are currently two reviews for this short French film and while I also liked it, I felt less enthralled by the film than the others. You soon see that the kid probably loves planes because his dad is a pilot and the boy imagines he, too, is flying. The film begins with a big-headed little kid scampering about with his toy airplane. I recommend both this short and the disc wholeheartedly. This short is included as an extra short on a DVD collection of the 2005 Academy Award shorts, which includes three of the five Animated Short nominees and all five of the Live-Action nominees, with two non-nominated animated shorts (Imago and The Fan and the Flower, by Bill Plympton) presumably to augment the disc to make up for the fact that two of the nominees are missing.
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At the end, the young man is now an old man and walks what looks to be some of the same ground he ran through as a boy earlier in the short and the ending has a beautiful moment which nicely brings things more or less full circle. There's then a brief middle section marking the passage of the years, told in visual cues which showcase life milestones-athletic accomplishments, marriage, a growing family and so on. Told with no dialog and only a few vocal sounds, the boy's life is shown visually-first a lengthy sequence showing the boy at play, with either his memories or his imagination flashing periodically on screen. As I understood the short's storyline, the young boy's father was a pilot who was killed in a crash, though why the plane crashed, I'm unsure-possibly in a war or possibly just a crash. As I want to talk at least a bit about the short, there will be minor spoilers: The short follows a little boy through his life, with an early emphasis on his childhood. I don't know just how close this came to an Academy Award nomination for Animated Short, but I wouldn't have been disappointed in the least if it had been short-listed, because it's very good.
It reminded me a great deal of Father and Daughter, by Michael Dudok DeWit.
Keep the mission fairly simple and do it very well.This is a very beautifully executed and visually stunning short, though I'd recommend watching it more than once, as the story is largely inferred, at least in the beginning. I am not sure the Dutch Film people who provide some of the funding view any old result as good enough and frankly I don't thinkBlenderheads should either.
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If we don't care how it turns out but only want something to fill in a few minutes for a non discriminating audience at a premiere while we gloat about new code I guess any old stuff will do. There isn't the money, people or the time to tackle epic sets and action.Having achievable goal starts with the concept artwork. One of the things we ought to have learned is not to let the artists aspirations get carried away on doing things they haven't a hope of delivering on. The challenge for Big Ton is to avoid past mistakes where ever they originated so that this project isnt a near failure again. I am only looking objectively at how past projects have turned out and why. I do think you are one of those Blender fanboys who are hypersensitive to anything that looks like criticism and wont let people express a different view.Īctually we get this knee jerk bullying here every time someone says something that appears not to be mindless adoration of the BF.įrankly its tiresome to have to deal with this stuff. I dont think you actually know me at all or have even read what I said.
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