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48. Umbra (HD - 2010)
1 year ago
An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
A short animated film directed by Malcolm Sutherland in 2010. With music by Alison Melville and Ben Grossman, and foley by Leon Lo. Sound design / mix by Malcolm Sutherland.

The animation is all hand-drawn; a mix of drawing / pastels on paper and digital animation with Toonboom Studio and a wacom cintiq tablet, assembled in After Effects 7 and edited in Sony Vegas 8.

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  • sodazot 1 year ago
    Wow! Good one!
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  • Darrin Burrell plus 1 year ago
    Strange and Bizarre. I like it!
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  • Neil Sanders 1 year ago
    Absolutely wonderful, I'll be watching this again and again contemplating the limits vantage point takes on our perception of the environment.
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  • ranran 1 year ago
    so beautiful
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  • Beautiful and inspiring work. Thank you very much!
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  • Sam Morrill staff 1 year ago
    The explorer is such a simple little creature, yet s/he conveys such incredible emotion. Beautiful.
  • Brandon Ray plus 1 year ago
    Well put.

    Remarkably executed story. Love it!
  • Mat Guzzo plus 1 year ago
    true! the fact is simple changes everything. points to the perfect story. really good one! what program did you used?
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  • Sam Shiryaykin 1 year ago
    cool!
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  • Eduardo Maluf plus 1 year ago
    Super inspiring !!! Love the style ....,great work !!!
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  • Drew Geraci plus 1 year ago
    Very interesting stuff - really dig the style.
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  • Pahnl 1 year ago
    Beautifully poignant and I don't know why but it brought a few tears to my eyes. Fantastic work.
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  • B Unis plus 1 year ago
    Wonderful story. Marvelous in its simplicity and dramatic core.
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  • Ian Berenger 1 year ago
    oh my god this is amazing
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  • Jens Kristian 1 year ago
    This is truly amazing on so many levels! Made my day =) Thank you!
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  • Ramez 1 year ago
    This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen.
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  • angie marin 1 year ago
    Felicitaciones por tu trabajo. Es hermoso!!!!
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  • Justin Goran 1 year ago
    Hey Malcolm, nice work man, this is Justin from kevins studio
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  • Matthew Skibicki 1 year ago
    surreal!
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  • Mutamasick 1 year ago
    So it is a great piece of existence!
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  • Kuliglig Dagat 1 year ago
    Very deep! Thanks a lot for posting!
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  • Great work! :) I was expecting a sort of loop in the story and you did it very well ;) I love how I felt empathy for the character.
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  • thesincann 1 year ago
    ironic
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  • Michael Borg 1 year ago
    Awesome, liked how none of the characters spoke, and how you presented the storyline visually.
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  • bigmike 1 year ago
    Nice. I feel like this all the time.
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  • Zelongs Bases 1 year ago
    Bent lines can always be straighten.
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  • Divya Gai 1 year ago
    Love the expressions.
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  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    Love it. Great work Malcolm, as always!
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  • pedro soto 1 year ago
    this days a strong tale like this is really aprecciate....thanks for impress me this way...
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  • Edilson 1 year ago
    aun me gusta!
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  • Serene Daoud 1 year ago
    That bubble helmet may seem abstract enough at first, but the moment the explorer realizes that he's lost it one connects with it like some very personal memory. That moment in this film is truly horrific (for me at least), and i think it feels so horrific in a very real sense because we all know this feeling so deeply but it's buried so well that we no longer have a name for it. This feeling of absolute urgency at recapturing the one most important thing in one's existence is the very same just at the moment of waking up from a very profound dream, before everyday chores and details slowly build and completely eclipse this..this clarity of purpose. Whatever shape or form this lost thing takes on, a bubble helmet or whatever, will be unique each and every time, but the search and the longing for it is the same.
  • John Gottschalk 1 year ago
    It also explains why there's a loop of having the bubble helmet and not having it. Always a search for that something, sometimes obtaining it sometimes not. I think the creator got his bubble helmet when he made this animation.
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  • Mikaela Carlén 1 year ago
    magic! the creature is lovely!
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  • mpared plus 1 year ago
    cool posted at the curious brain well done :-)
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  • Cheryl Fish plus 1 year ago
    profound piece. Great audio.
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  • Mograph TV 1 year ago
    THis film was so beauiful, wow I love it!
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  • Bear 1 year ago
    Wonderfully made!
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  • Emilia 1 year ago
    amazing! surreal!
    great concept! :)
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  • Ryan Schmid 1 year ago
    each layer of the story gave it so much character, what a great video.
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  • Eva Becker 1 year ago
    I love the low-key temperament here and the character expressions. All in all a very well-orchestrated piece of animation.
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  • sam spreckley 1 year ago
    amazing as always, loved it
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  • pat rhodes 1 year ago
    so great! the soundtrack is awesome as well.
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  • Tobi Meyer 1 year ago
    amazing! it's like the movie "Triangle" concerning the idea :)
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  • Claudio Salas plus 1 year ago
    Amazing
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  • AlexMoraes 1 year ago
    deeply touching.
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  • 7Días Media 1 year ago
    wuao .. es soberbia
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  • Tom Judd plus 1 year ago
    Wonderful as always Malcolm. Shared on animade.tv
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  • Jonathan Roulston 1 year ago
    Some deep shit.
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  • Alex Amelines 1 year ago
    fantastic!

    your brain is one scary place!
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  • Mon amie la rose 1 year ago
    Ingenious.
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  • dyya 1 year ago
    wow
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  • Gundo 1 year ago
    I like it.
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  • acid eyes 1 year ago
    fkcn unreal mate
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  • ivette b. 1 year ago
    conceptual awesomeness
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  • loonachic 1 year ago
    Love it!
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  • Toby Cochran 1 year ago
    That was incredible! Great job!
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  • Mike Kelly 1 year ago
    Excellent work! I rewatched to make sure I was thinking the same way you were when you created this great animation!
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  • Ben Grossman 1 year ago
    Dear Malcolm,

    This is wonderful! What an honour to be involved (even in such a small way). Gorgeous work!

    All the best,

    ben
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  • rabiscado 1 year ago
    Excellent! Great work
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  • Daniel Faust plus 1 year ago
    Really nice. A little masterpiece.
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  • Rosh/rlove/r333 1 year ago
    Amazing!
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  • Las CasiCasiotone 1 year ago
    O_o
    Funtastic!!
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  • Wallet Spooks plus 1 year ago
    ...wow.
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  • Andres Barrientos 1 year ago
    Wonderful work as usual, mate. I loved this sense of resignation in acceptance and happines of pending inevitable doom. (a mouthful right there). Touching and inspiring as always, Malcolm.
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  • padelis p. 1 year ago
    a perfect parallelism with the paranoia of mind. breath taking and mind pazzling.
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  • Miranda Tacchia 1 year ago
    beautiful work
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  • Kaliptus 1 year ago
    The world needs more animations like this. Great work!!
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  • RetroGuy 1 year ago
    groundbreaking! it takes a great mind to come up with something like that! btw, what does umbra mean?
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  • Dickie Cox 1 year ago
    Absolutely brilliant and stunning
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  • ofir sasson 1 year ago
    beautiful
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  • feedmeh8 1 year ago
    Amazing as usual! great soundtrack as well.
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  • Bob Jansen 1 year ago
    This is really some freaky stuff. I love the style and music. Really nice, watched it a several times.
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  • Rawls 1 year ago
    Absolutely wonderful!!! Fantastic work Malcolm!
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  • ephemera 1 year ago
    soooo beautiful.... perfect

    i love it!
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  • Meital Miselevich 1 year ago
    The best thing I have seen in a long long long time.
    Thank you!
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  • Ofeelema 1 year ago
    Unusual and very different...I liked it. Thought provoking too might I add.
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  • Mike Hollingsworth 1 year ago
    Mr. Malcolm Sutherland, you have "it."
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  • Dana M Kinlaw II plus 1 year ago
    Sweeeet.
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  • ori toor plus 1 year ago
    so emotional...
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  • Dee Mackey 1 year ago
    Incredibly haunting and brilliant.
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  • Chelsea Ker 1 year ago
    well done- yet again!
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  • Justo Cascante 1 year ago
    So inspiring , love this type of animation !
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  • danisho 1 year ago
    Amazing! the spiral of life.
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  • JiaYu Jin 1 year ago
    super!!
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  • really cool! love it!
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  • Manaka Nagai 1 year ago
    This is amazing... Exactly why there's a "Like" button on vimeo.
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  • karin somer 1 year ago
    i love it.
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  • Tom D 1 year ago
    Love it.
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  • jim le fevre plus 1 year ago
    well done Malcolm, really really lovely
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  • This is one of the best I've seen in awhile, I got a inspiring message out of that! Great work.
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  • jesús olmo plus 1 year ago
    superb
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  • TeOteOu 1 year ago
    Excellent loop-style story, the style and the atmosphere are very unique.
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  • Alexey Minchenok 1 year ago
    Very good
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  • candas sisman plus 1 year ago
    really great sounds .....and story
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  • Excellent! I love it! congratulations. The methaphorical lenguaje is amazing. Love it. great work!
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  • malaventura 1 year ago
    Like a weird dream that we don't understand completely with our concious mind but we feel its powerful logic with our subconcius... Genial!
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  • dustin senos 1 year ago
    Recursion.
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  • Tumblehead plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic. I love the atmosphere
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  • Lars Steenhoff plus 1 year ago
    Great sense of wonder!
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  • ljudbilden 1 year ago
    wonderful in so many ways!
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