User Reviews

When a short is so very..well, short, it can sometimes lead a person to wonder what the very point of it is. But that I find is a very cynical and close-minded way of looking at it, and I try not to think that way. Films, plays, music, games, TV shows and indeed shorts, in my opinion it's all just different aspects of what's on the basic level the same artistic expressions, and this was a very lovely one to me. It had elements of the Wizard of Oz and Pinocchio in it, least that's what I thought of in the few minutes that I was watching. It may be tiny and over in such a quick flash, but I think it demonstrates fantastically just what a very distinctive and odd animation style can do. This could make people want to try and check out similar ones like it or even inspire some to try and create their very own animated visions for folk to see. The tone and visuals of this were so wonderful, it was so brightly coloured and cheerful that I found it very uplifting, and by the end I was smiling at the closing image. It looked so amazing, I loved how the trees of the forest looked like paper, but in a very good way, kinda like it was a backdrop almost, or a pop-up storybook come to life, and I really couldn't tell if the strange wooden robot(that's right!) was a real model or a creation of CGI, 'cause if it was CGI it was some of the best I've ever seen. It was all sort of a bit weird, but very pleasantly weird and charming. It doesn't have to mean a thing, you can probably read into it however you want, I mean it is about a giant clumsy automaton of wood on strings who is in a sprawling forest and who is soon pestered by a woodpecker until he manages to snap every one of his strings and then promptly crash to the ground where it appears that he is no more! And then the woodpecker hops onto him and you don't know if he's pecking to make a home out of the robot's body or what, but then you see that he's merely etched-out the shape of a heart, and as the robot stirrs back to life, set free from his strings, it seems that he's been given a soul, the woodpecker was only trying to help all along, and now the two of them are now friends..and off they go!! A simple short but very sweet, I thought it was quite magical. Well done animators, see ya!