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2 years ago

In a ruined world, where mankind has brought destruction upon themselves, a new hope arrives in the form of a seed.

Video: Nat Dart
Music: Matt Kaip

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Neil Sanders 2 years ago

It's like propaganda art turned on it's head
Patricio Brito 2 years ago

Lovely
Justin Nathanson 2 years ago

nice
vilajs snag. 2 years ago

briliant idea, very nicely done
Blake Whitman 2 years ago

drop seeds not bombs.
Harald 2 years ago

Quoted for truth.
Patrick Thompson 2 years ago

Well done! We've been given a beautiful world to take care of. Let's do it.
langustart 2 years ago

Nice
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Brennan L. 2 years ago

So amazing!

When that music kicked in around 1:22, that was awesome.

Good message, simple but effective art style. Simply incredible.
David Vandegeer 2 years ago

yes i agree makes the mood
caze 2 years ago

very nice, animation.
Bryn Geronimo Jones 2 years ago

that was beautiful :) really well done
Daniel Harris 2 years ago

this is amazing! i wish i could make this a screensaver
Kurt Gregory 2 years ago

nice nice nice twist love it
Trey Vollmer 2 years ago

encouraging.
J.Corte 2 years ago

Nice... A beautiful concept 2.. Keep up the nice work!
Sunny Thaper 2 years ago

Beautiful video!
Lone Rider / DanceMusic57 2 years ago

Superb Video...
If only the seeds would grow that quick !
Excellent !
Cynthia Holladay 2 years ago

Thank you
d_ream 2 years ago

Nat its great work, dare I say a perfect match for our next record if your interested. We have written a song "Drop Beats Not Bombs' d-ream.co.uk. Only thing is ours is 4 min long maybe we could sort something out? I duno. Peter
Kai Clear 2 years ago

very cool, reminds me of the Gerald Scarfe Animations in Pink Floyds "The Wall"
Jared Levy 2 years ago

Absolutely. Even though the artwork is original, I could see it being a Floyd movie too. Something about the look of the pilot.
Nat Dart 2 years ago

When Matt Kaip was making the score for this, I told him that I was heavily inspired by:
1) Sigur Rós
2) Pink Floyd
3) Cliff Martinez
I don't know if he was familiar with Sigur Rós or Cliff Martinez, but the Dark Side of the Moon feel definitely came through in the score, I think.
Beibers Baterdouk 2 years ago

i also thought of Pink Floyd as i watch this great video. very nice work!
JK 2 years ago

beautifull peace with a meaning that is very clear. However I do not really like the desciption. It's good but you state your meaning like it's a general fact. ''our careless warfare practices''...I do respect your opinion but it depends on politics. You cann't just say it's all careless. For instance ISAF developed by all means to help plant the seeds that make the trees grow like in your artwork.
Benny Beat 2 years ago

Nice Work!!! Good graphics & original idea ;)
I hope in a future this can be a reallity...
Lee Cho 2 years ago

Wow, I was not expecting that.
Very nice work.
Pierre Hageman 2 years ago

That's very nice !

However, is it really a full flash animation with the 3D and parallaxes ? What were exactly the programs used to make this ? (That's curiosity not criticism ;))

Anyway, good black and white artworks with well done sound design deserve your narration and idea, good job.
Nat Dart 2 years ago

I used mostly Flash for the 2D Animation, and a little bit of 3D Studio Max for a couple elements. The compositing was done in After Effects.

Thanks for the feedback!
MANNY ORTEGA 2 years ago

Outstanding!!!
2 years ago

Good deal, I had just checked out the free sounds databases earlier this week.
Nat Dart 2 years ago

freesound.org/ is awesome. It's a great tool for animators. I actually heard about FreeSound by watching the credits in Alfonso Cuarón's 'Children of Men'.
Maxì Dejoie 2 years ago

splendid
Mozgovoj 2 years ago

Lovely. +1 To karma.
Lev Ignatiev 2 years ago

+)))))))
Ayrton_MB 2 years ago

Really surprising to see the seeds dropping from the bombers...

Bravo...!!!
PFlow Tutors 2 years ago

hey

very nice, animation. cool idea
beautiful style
Blazej Banys 2 years ago

love it .)
Godfrey Hibbert 2 years ago

amazing animation. did you use mainly after effects?
Nat Dart 2 years ago

I mainly used Flash to animate, but After Effects was used for compositing.
Carlos Alberto m2 2 years ago

awsome, gracias
Daniel Rucci 2 years ago

Terrific Job, Nat. I really enjoyed the pace and the softness of the sound, the story and the animation. Amazing Color and design, especially of the operator. You had detail where there needed to be detail and left out the uncessary. Applause for a well studied and terrifically intelligent piece of work.
Michael Fidler 2 years ago

Nice twist! I love the animation . It reminds me a lot of the animation in the Bomber scene in the film Heavy Metal. Well done.
Nat Dart 2 years ago

I haven't seen the original Heavy Metal film as a whole yet, only a few snippets. I have seen Heavy Metal 2000 though..
I always loved the fighter pilots and bombers in Kevin Altieri & Todd McFarlane's 'Do The Evolution'. I was definetely inspired in part by that music video.
Adam Palmer 2 years ago

You should TOTALLY see the original Heavy Metal. It was a great inspiration to me as a film maker!
adiuvosky 2 years ago

that was an awesome idea and execution! stunning!!
RIE STUDIOS 2 years ago

awesome stuff. loved the idea. animation was great too!
Remi Noell 2 years ago

pretty good!
2 years ago

Amazing film, great message too.
Pablo C. 2 years ago

Awesome video! The exploding growth of the trees was perfectly appropriate. :)
Nat Dart 2 years ago

Thanks, I think so too! Don't you think the profile of an Oak tree sort of looks like an a-bomb mushroom cloud?
Pablo C. 2 years ago

Yea, it definitely does. How sinister of Mother Nature! :P
Matías Rispau - Brainstorming V 2 years ago

Very inspiring.
Bryan Yates 2 years ago

super work.
Hache 2 years ago

Great work ... and the ilustrations are absolutley fantastic :)
Adam Palmer 2 years ago

Loved it! Awesome work!
David McSperitt 2 years ago

That was really amazing! I'm totally a novice and am facinated at how you can create something like this. What inspired you to create this and how did you put this all together?
Nat Dart 2 years ago

My core idea was to have seeds hit the earth and have trees explode out of the them. I just took that idea and went to town with it. I spent lots of time drawing layouts to create interesting compositions with the trees and ruins.
During the storyboard process I began to discover some of the archetypes that existed in my events/story/setting, so I made a conscious decision to really push what I found. One example of this was the raven. In first-nations (American-Indian) mythology, the raven is seen as a trickster and creator, so I tried framing him with the bomber to draw a parallel between them.
I really thought a lot about the difference between creation and destruction, and ways in which I could represent that contrast on screen.
The rest of the time, I spent animating in Flash, makin' them trees go BOOM.
Juan Pablo Troncoso 2 years ago

really nice vid...i wish i could animate like that, congrats!
Cooper 2 years ago

Have you ever tried to? If you never practice, how do you expect to be great at something?You are just, born with it - if you want to animate like this, practice animating like this. He's been doing it for years!
kontent partners 2 years ago

Great work Nat. Very impressive. Really like the style, mood, composition and you added the perfect music. Tremendous impact...very powerful...well thought out.
dakayvakid 2 years ago

love it man. fluid. beautiful.
guille 2 years ago

good
Leslie Andrew Ridings 2 years ago

Very nice! Simple, effectively paced. I really liked this.
Erick Pastor 2 years ago

really cool
Josue Rendon 2 years ago

Outstanding
Timothy Siew 2 years ago

Nice metaphors. It feels a bit like new winds bringing rain to a land of drought, springing up new life in its wake.
Stefan Kuhnigk 2 years ago

A way too long ending but a very cool shortfilm!
Vadim Glushkov 2 years ago

абсолютно великолепно. подошло бы под зарисовку к началу какого-нить эпического мульта на ту же душещипательную тематику ... на энглише не могу, понимай как хочешь. Но ты Большой Молодец !
Joe Lopez Studio 2 years ago

wow looks cool and the message is so possitive! 10+
Rihards Kubilis 2 years ago

very good work... awesome;)
Mitto 2 years ago

dude... i did not get the idea behind it.... But as for the comments, its really amazing.. and outstanding..
Philipp Ostermann 2 years ago

Man, you should take a moment to reflect before you post a comment. The message is quite simple. So try it again by watching it; for best results I recommend to use your brain! I hope you make some progress.
kasey lum 2 years ago

this was sick!
Anshul 2 years ago

Excellent stuff, the passion is very clearly reflected.
whats the next new message? ;)
jason ordenstein 2 years ago

the truth
Brian Gurnett 2 years ago

Great message. Great style/lighting. Great music. Reminds me of parts of Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Especially when the drums first kick in. Gimme more!
samia singh 2 years ago

beautiful
petrito zezus 2 years ago

Congrats! :-) x
David Moffitt 2 years ago

Stellar!
Fide BoOm 2 years ago

Congratulations... It's an exelente work!
Domanic 2 years ago

Excelente trabajo, gran atmósfera!!
Robert Syre 2 years ago

My wife doesn't get it, but I do. I thought it had a touch of Miyazaki... maybe not. It was well done nonetheless.
CSR 2 years ago

I love the style and the idea. Well done!
Igor Goduto 2 years ago

Great idea!
Christopher Harry Martin 2 years ago

awesome
Lawrence Taylor 2 years ago

This is fantastic! It's really well done. The other questions I had about the tools you've used have been answered but I was just wondering how long it took you make?

Cheers
Nat Dart 2 years ago

8 months
The Barbour Shop 2 years ago

Amazing work. Congratulations!
Ruben Rojas 2 years ago

Excellent is awesome. I like
Pablo Yamamoto 2 years ago

Great work!! Great rhythm! First thing that came to me was Pink Floyd The Wall!
josh lyon 2 years ago

Brilliant concept - really nice execution.

Added to Best of Animation/Stop-Motion/Puppets channel:
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Kristian Duffy 2 years ago

very pink floyd
the tree project. 2 years ago

amazing the illustrations are so good nice job
Le Minxxx 1 year ago

This was one of my favorite's at the NY International Children's Film Festival ;)
Nat Dart 1 year ago

Wow, that is quite the compliment! Thank you very much.
Michelle Wiens 1 year ago

Love it! The animation was brilliant!