My highest respect for drawing all of this by hand. I could never create something like this.
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wh347 responds:
Thanks so much! Yeah, drawing by hand can look really nice, but it takes such a looonnnggg tiiimmeeee
Holy fuck that was amazing, absolute phenomenal amount of work involved here, if this was the culmination of my life's work I'd be happy, you should be very proud!
wh347 responds:
Thank you thank you! I'm kind of embarrassed to admit how long the whole film took.
high-quality creative movie that was very interesting and well made.
wh347 responds:
Thank you!
Holy crap. That had the feels of a Studio Ghibli film, wrought with confusion and randomness that altogether welds into a wholesome story.
I saw this on your Vimeo page not that long ago, and was impressed with the animation as well as the plot, which, like a sad tale often does, drags you along for the ride to the bitter end.
Plots like this rarely go over well, but I think it was worth the risk: I ultimately liked it, even though most hunters wouldn't have dared to shoot a non-threatening bear so close to a minor.. maybe he didn't see him? Ah well, an O Henry ending always needs a hook at the end, and I felt this whole piece turned out just fine.
I'm glad you're posting your work to NG, you made a fan today!
wh347 responds:
Thanks man! I appreciate the feedback. I think my main fear with the ending was that I didn't want it to be cheap or sentimental. The introduction of the hunter character actually came way late in production (I had a different ending planned that was super corny). I wanted the end to be a little more cynical, but also wrap up the reign of the bear as father. I also meant for it to be like a weird injection of reality having this outside guy come in with no understanding of what this family had been through. I'm sure everything about the way the hunter shoots the bear is inaccurate though, like you said. I like to imagine that he was maybe acting in a rash way because he thought the kid was in imminent danger and wasn't tuned to the mood between the two. Or something :)
Thanks again for watching!!