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2. The Forest
2 years ago
Antonia is a 12 year old girl. She often has daydreams, in which she wanders of in to a magical far away forest, were she hides from the problems of the real world. One day, however, her father takes drastic measures and she has to face a decision.

Is your inner peace an utopian state until you have finally escaped the grip of the society and its rules? Or is affirmation a faster way to your personal luck? And what are you supposed to do, if you have to answer this question at the age of 12?

In the Animated Short "The Forest" by David Scharf, the protagonist has to cope with this question and her hostile environment and finds a simple but radical solution.

Watch with subtitles, or dowload press material on the-forest.de

Conceived, written, directed and animated by
David Scharf
huesforalice.com

Sound and Music
Javi Otero & César Meler, 48 Billion Atoms

Speakers voice girl
Neath Champion-Weeks

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Stephen Taylor
e-voicing.de

Characterdesign
André Ljosaj
smatik.de

Credits

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  • Michael Titze plus 2 years ago
    well done!
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  • That's really a great movie, David. The storyline is well presented, and your 3D suits its mood. The mixing of 2D animation and 3D is also smooth, which isn't always the case in other movies :) My congratulations!
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  • envis precisely 2 years ago
    a fascinating profound emotional surealistic socio-critical and mental trip through a childs mind. we likey...
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  • Chirag Batra 2 years ago
    *thumbs up*

    Just too good! :)
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  • NoFatClips.com 2 years ago
    Awesome film. And many many thanks for releasing it under a free license.
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  • der ton ist es wirklich wert mit kopfhörern gehört zu werden.
    hier noch:
    youtube.com/watch?v=u9jKaPuWTwE
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  • Proxipedia 2 years ago
    Beautiful and emotional. Everything a good animation should be.
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  • SalvaTRON 2 years ago
    aww that poor kid in class who got fried
    excellent work!
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  • Jake Taylor 2 years ago
    What envis precisely said.
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  • dirk oelmann plus 2 years ago
    beautifull work...its so true!
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  • Kanenas 2 years ago
    Keep up the nice work.. :)
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  • Bruno Cardieri 2 years ago
    Great job !
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  • Fantastically aware storytelling. Really well done - great job.
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  • Philipp 7pc 2 years ago
    LikeLikeLike!
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  • SAHARA 2 years ago
    I love your sense of awareness!
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  • peter leung 2 years ago
    i loved it, so beautifully made, and great music......
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  • mimmo papa 2 years ago
    Bravissimo!!!
    Splendido!
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  • Jeff Namnum 2 years ago
    Haunting and sadly so truthful.

    A wonderful deep story that stays with you and it's told in such a brief timeframe.
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  • Sunny Thaper 2 years ago
    Awesome work!
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  • bob lorrimer plus 2 years ago
    A work of astonishing visual authority.

    Wonderful soundstage and clean, convincing narration.
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  • savas inci 2 years ago
    Good job.
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  • Riley Blakeway plus 2 years ago
    bravo
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  • Elroy El 2 years ago
    I'm overcome with envy - fantastic stuff.
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  • mehtap çağlar 2 years ago
    it is a sad story and a great movie :) i love it.
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  • Lisa Marie Albert 2 years ago
    wonderful and complex piece... very good work!
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  • Wilhelm Tell 2 years ago
    gorgeous!
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  • Uncle Wind 2 years ago
    destroy the system...
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  • fontecha 2 years ago
    simply great. Like it very much.
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  • Mickey 2 years ago
    your great work makes me think a lot....THX!
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  • Playgirl 2 years ago
    Very nice I like it.
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  • Hache 2 years ago
    Very beautiful ... :)
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  • Ting Zhuang 2 years ago
    I recall Vincent. I like Tim Burton's film.
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  • Peter Eriksson 2 years ago
    Beautiful film I do like your style!
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  • Jolanda Devalle 2 years ago
    very very nice!
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  • Luke plus 2 years ago
    Really nice movie. I like music, sounds and artistic representation :)
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  • moviemaker14 plus 2 years ago
    This is so brilliant. I love how thematically eery you made it. I have a question- what system(s) was this edited on?
  • David Scharf 2 years ago
    Thanks.
    I used Cinema4D for 3D, After Effects for Compositing and Editing. System is Vista x64.
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  • Bob Productions 2 years ago
    nice cg work
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  • BREITBILD.tv plus 2 years ago
    ha, no a augschburger auf vimeo. sauba :D
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  • Lori Daly 2 years ago
    I loved everything about it.

    Have you heard of eGuiders? I am sure they would love to share your videos through their site.

    eGuiders goal is to support the filmmaking community by celebrating the most engaging content the Internet has to offer. Your videos would be a perfect fit. ;)

    eGuiders was founded by award winning film maker Marc Ostrick.

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    Thanks and best of luck!
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  • VIO Producciones 2 years ago
    nice work !
    Check our video art work called INVOLUTION if you want ;)

    vimeo.com/6389494

    Luck !
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  • Greg Matthews 2 years ago
    Wonderful video!
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  • Duncan Wilson Webb 2 years ago
    Hot damn. Nice job.
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  • rc cone plus 2 years ago
    love the narrative. nice work.
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  • edward 2 years ago
    GReat visuals!!
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  • MONOMA 2 years ago
    It' s beatiful.
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  • Great Work!

    Keep it running ...
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  • ū 2 years ago
    TrŪ love
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  • Jay Taylor 2 years ago
    very very cool.
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  • elfenmaschine 2 years ago
    fantastic!

    Thank You!!!
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  • sLy 2 years ago
    Cool !
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  • Lisa M 2 years ago
    stunning animation, and a brilliant story :))
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  • Jarbas Agnelli plus 2 years ago
    Wonderful use of C4D! Beautiful compositions. One of my favorites.
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  • Gene Rodriguez 2 years ago
    Wonderful!!! Congratulations!!!!
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  • Experiment Garden 2 years ago
    This film left me completely awed! The ending is not quite what I expected, but it is realistic. Still, all those poor people are trapped in bubbles, and bubbles always float to the surface.

    Things will and must change!
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  • el-flojo 2 years ago
    Wow. Schöner Film, der genau die richtige Mischung aus Melancholie und Freude über das Gesehene hinterlässt.
    Danke!
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  • Strawberries777 2 years ago
    This is such a sad story, yet it's all true.
    I love it, it's so beautifully done!
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  • Adrian Felipe Pera 2 years ago
    Love it. What else can we do, in order to wake up people's nightmare about civilization and mantain our credibility?
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  • Brent A. Reeder 2 years ago
    You captured real emotion here. Wow
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  • LA CASITA plus 2 years ago
    woo thanks!!!! this is really pretty and touching.... ooo!!!
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  • josh lyon plus 2 years ago
    stellar piece of work. gorgeous animation, great depth of story/character.

    added to Best of Animation/Stop-Motion/Puppets channel:
    vimeo.com/channels/animationandpuppets
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  • MONOMA 2 years ago
    Congratulations, nice one!
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  • Clarence Ewing 2 years ago
    Wow! Fantastic work, David! Congratulations.
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  • Andrew Music 2 years ago
    very well done :)



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  • Danail Ivanov 2 years ago
    I can only thank you for such a beautiful masterpiece!
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  • Simply stunning! Antonia in our mind! THANK YOU
    Cheers
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  • Strayfox 2 years ago
    Here we go again and again and...

    Great work! Thank you for expressing this so strongly.
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  • oledie plus 2 years ago
    very nice work! i love it
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  • Noya Terziyan 2 years ago
    Sick at heart, indeed...Sweet..
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  • Dusan Lazic 2 years ago
    I'm joining to all positive comments!!! made my day nicer
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  • Fabiola Miño 2 years ago
    <3
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  • tiojai plus 1 year ago
    Wow, it's just wonderful from beginning to end!!
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  • Simon Gower 1 year ago
    Thank you for an amazing piece of work! Well done....
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  • Turtle 6 months ago
    Very niece work, would love to see some more of it. I've added you to Life.Nature.You...would love to see some more
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  • Caleb Friesen 6 months ago
    This is sweet
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  • GATO BLANCO 4 months ago
    cool
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  • everton sebben 2 months ago
    This is so amazing, it goes so deep beyond aesthetics, so much content ! Work of genius!
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  • jean desrouffet 1 month ago
    amazing ! a french frog
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