'Negative Space' is ornamented with imaginative structures delivering very little to the emotional depth of the short film.
At the beginning of the film, we see the protagonist packing bag just the way his father once taught him. The depiction of that scene is amazing, creative and appropriate. It shows the intention of the makers to make it look imaginative and creative. The animation is good but doesn't feel polished. The voice acting is good but the sound mixing is bad. The background music and sound effects are good but due to bad sound mixing these elements couldn't add a magic to the 5 mins long animation. Even at some point, the voice of the protagonist feels scratchy like it's recorded with a cheap microphone but actually the background score and the voice didn't mix well and gave that bad effect.
The film showcases some of the finest creative animations I've ever seen. The car scene, where the road becomes a zipper of a briefcase and the car passes unzipping it and then the briefcase opens bringing us to the past of the protagonist, is simply awesome. Then the underwater scene was very creative too. There are scenes that show the emotional relationship of the protagonist and his father through bag packing but unfortunately that can't give emotional depth to that sweet relationship. It felt like all these things were happening just to deliver a punchline, which was not even earned through the film. The film also gives a hint at the distant relationship between the father and the mother. That hint was just there but not well developed, may be because the creators wanted to focus more on the father-son relationship which they couldn't justify too! The facial expressions of the characters were just flat. This can be deliberately done to focus more on inner emotions but I didn't buy it.
'Negative Space' is a well animated and very creative short film that lacks emotional depth. It could be a good film if the emotional bonding between the father and son was strengthen more by adding extra 3/4 mins to the film.
At the beginning of the film, we see the protagonist packing bag just the way his father once taught him. The depiction of that scene is amazing, creative and appropriate. It shows the intention of the makers to make it look imaginative and creative. The animation is good but doesn't feel polished. The voice acting is good but the sound mixing is bad. The background music and sound effects are good but due to bad sound mixing these elements couldn't add a magic to the 5 mins long animation. Even at some point, the voice of the protagonist feels scratchy like it's recorded with a cheap microphone but actually the background score and the voice didn't mix well and gave that bad effect.
The film showcases some of the finest creative animations I've ever seen. The car scene, where the road becomes a zipper of a briefcase and the car passes unzipping it and then the briefcase opens bringing us to the past of the protagonist, is simply awesome. Then the underwater scene was very creative too. There are scenes that show the emotional relationship of the protagonist and his father through bag packing but unfortunately that can't give emotional depth to that sweet relationship. It felt like all these things were happening just to deliver a punchline, which was not even earned through the film. The film also gives a hint at the distant relationship between the father and the mother. That hint was just there but not well developed, may be because the creators wanted to focus more on the father-son relationship which they couldn't justify too! The facial expressions of the characters were just flat. This can be deliberately done to focus more on inner emotions but I didn't buy it.
'Negative Space' is a well animated and very creative short film that lacks emotional depth. It could be a good film if the emotional bonding between the father and son was strengthen more by adding extra 3/4 mins to the film.