Pfffirate

My second favorite short out of the ones we saw on Thursday, cute on to the point. It was a great idea, blowup vinyl everything, except for a sharp metal parrot, who is a douchebag. The mice were awesome, just scurrying around and fro some reason going to chew on the nipple of the lady on the front of the ship. The captain runs around on his ship trying to eliminate all dangers to his ship. How did the mice get on the ship in the first place? Did they come with the ship when he blew it up to get off the island? And how did he get a hold of the ship in the first place? These are questions that need to be answered, anyways… The parrot was a jerk, he knows he is sharp, and yet he still wants to land on the ship, why couldn’t he just go a little farther and land on the island? Because now that he has destroyed the ship, he’s really screwed now.

Work in Progress

I liked this one the best out of all the CG films we watched. I can see how Leeper might be creeped out by the “uncanny valley,” but I don’t have a problem with it, he’s just paranoid. I loved both Shrek movies and they didn’t make me feel all strange inside. The CG style didn’t make me have a heart attack or anything, because I know it is very good. The very concept of these two guys making animals…creatures, just experimenting, and then the girl coming in and breathing life into them is incredible. The animation was really breathtaking, it was an insight into another world, where humans (well, what I took to be humans) create, and are magical and supernatural beings, something of gods. Props to ILM for creating such a beautiful short.

Bunny

Like the majority of the CG films we watched, I found myself very confused at the end of this film. So the bunny gets annoyed at his mother moth…right, it keeps shutting it out because it is getting on the nerves of the bunny. At last the moth pulls the last straw and the bunny goes terminator on it; taking out a wooden spoon and smacks that moth right into the food he is making. He is so pissed that he doesn’t care, he stirs the mother right into the bowl and throws it into the oven and then sits back, out of breath. Suddenly a bright light comes out of the oven, and…long story short, the bunny crawls into the oven, literally burning himself alive, not a very good idea. But killing himself takes him toward the light with the moth, and then a bunch of moths. I didn’t understand it until a firend told me that the moth represented death and that it was beckoning the bunny to die and join his wife in heaven.