'Kin amazing. David Firth, you are Yorkshire's finest talent sir, gwan fam!
Reviews for "Cream"
I was really scared to watch this because it's made by the same creator of salad fingers, but I'm glad I did
This is the stuff of nightmares. I love it.
Now this is true art.
You take a stupidly simple tool like distorsions and bones that can be used to crap out animation, but then you use it to build something utterly beautiful through its sheer complexity.
Kudos to all of you who worked on this project.
The surrealism brought by the contrast between dark imagery and funny motions and expresions, both exagerated and crushingly realistic tweens, the real-world crimes of marketing and press coupled with the over the top fantasy plot; works very well to establish an unquieting tone. And the sfx and music really help. I get some Aperture vibes.
What I enjoyed the most was the attention to detail, like the slight head nod from the executive on the boat or the way every detail that could make cream fail as a fantastical cure-all is explained, even going as far as making it cure the loss of enthusiasm for a life without challenge(that is in the literal interpretation; I am well aware you can look at this as a metaphor for covering up symptomps of an issue and pretending everything is perfect, but I choose to go with the surface level interpretation for this review).
Some of the realities the ending makes you think about are soul-crushing(we have unlimited data to work with but we are restricted by piracy laws, when we coul be making cultural and scientific progress at an amazing rate, money might be something that will be hard to get rid of even given the possibility to surpass it, big industries have monopolized information), but I still walk away from this with a good vibe.
This was truly hypnotizing, it should be broadcast at a Film Festival.
TL;DR Great work reinventing distortion tool, bois!!!
Now this was freaking cool. Cool story and really neat animation!