Talk about the impermanence of human civilization! You want to think we're such a big and important force in the world, look at us from the perspective of rocks...
I kind of like the idea that maybe the inanimate objects are alive too, just on a much longer timescale. Though what it'd be like for a rock to suddenly be upended and moved would be kind of weird.
Anyway, this short shows two rocks who spend their leisurely eons under a tree peeling off fast-moving moss that keeps attacking them when they lax their guard. They watch the entire progress of human civilization as it starts from "a bunch of wood piles" to the sudden explosion of gigantic skyscrapers... and then the rot and fade away of all of them. That was weird...
The animation in this short is amazing! The way the sky moves to the rocks, the speed-up and slow-down of time, the characters and their shapes, the timing, and everything is really impressive. This short should become a standard by which to measure the possibilities of computer graphics. It's as inventive as it is well-designed.
--PolarisDiB
I kind of like the idea that maybe the inanimate objects are alive too, just on a much longer timescale. Though what it'd be like for a rock to suddenly be upended and moved would be kind of weird.
Anyway, this short shows two rocks who spend their leisurely eons under a tree peeling off fast-moving moss that keeps attacking them when they lax their guard. They watch the entire progress of human civilization as it starts from "a bunch of wood piles" to the sudden explosion of gigantic skyscrapers... and then the rot and fade away of all of them. That was weird...
The animation in this short is amazing! The way the sky moves to the rocks, the speed-up and slow-down of time, the characters and their shapes, the timing, and everything is really impressive. This short should become a standard by which to measure the possibilities of computer graphics. It's as inventive as it is well-designed.
--PolarisDiB