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2. The Forest
3 months 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

1,122 Likes

  • arcade 3 months 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 plus 3 months ago
    a fascinating profound emotional surealistic socio-critical and mental trip through a childs mind. we likey...
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  • KObal 3 months ago
    Excellent!! Stunning visuals. Great work!!
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  • Chirag Batra 3 months ago
    *thumbs up*

    Just too good! :)
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  • NoFatClips.com 3 months ago
    Awesome film. And many many thanks for releasing it under a free license.
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  • christian schlaeffer 3 months ago
    der ton ist es wirklich wert mit kopfhörern gehört zu werden.
    hier noch:
    youtube.com/watch?v=u9jKaPuWTwE
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  • Proxipedia 3 months ago
    Beautiful and emotional. Everything a good animation should be.
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  • SalvaTRON 3 months ago
    aww that poor kid in class who got fried
    excellent work!
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  • Jake Taylor 3 months ago
    What envis precisely said.
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  • dirk oelmann 3 months ago
    beautifull work...its so true!
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  • Kanenas 3 months ago
    Keep up the nice work.. :)
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  • Bruno Cardieri 3 months ago
    Great job !
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  • Fantastically aware storytelling. Really well done - great job.
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  • Philipp 7pc 3 months ago
    LikeLikeLike!
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  • sou lee 3 months ago
    Oh! Its a pitty the story has sad ending.
    Depressing but full of truths.
    well done!
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  • SAHARA 3 months ago
    I love your sense of awareness!
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  • peter leung 3 months ago
    i loved it, so beautifully made, and great music......
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  • mimmo papa 3 months ago
    Bravissimo!!!
    Splendido!
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  • Jeff Namnum 3 months 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 plus 3 months ago
    Awesome work!
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  • bob lorrimer 3 months ago
    A work of astonishing visual authority.

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

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

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    Thanks and best of luck!
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  • VIO Producciones 3 months ago
    nice work !
    Check our video art work called INVOLUTION if you want ;)

    vimeo.com/6389494

    Luck !
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  • Greg Matthews plus 3 months ago
    Wonderful video!
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  • Duncan Wilson Webb 3 months ago
    Hot damn. Nice job.
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  • rc cone plus 3 months ago
    love the narrative. nice work.
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  • edward 3 months ago
    GReat visuals!!
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  • MONOMA 3 months ago
    It' s beatiful.
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  • Great Work!

    Keep it running ...
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  • ū 2 months ago
    TrŪ love
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  • maria 2 months ago
    ...its really nice
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  • Jay Taylor 2 months ago
    very very cool.
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  • elfenmaschine 2 months ago
    fantastic!

    Thank You!!!
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  • sLy 2 months ago
    Cool !
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  • Lisa M 2 months ago
    stunning animation, and a brilliant story :))
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  • Jarbas Agnelli plus 2 months ago
    Wonderful use of C4D! Beautiful compositions. One of my favorites.
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  • Gene Rodriguez 2 months ago
    Wonderful!!! Congratulations!!!!
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  • Experiment Garden 2 months 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 months ago
    Wow. Schöner Film, der genau die richtige Mischung aus Melancholie und Freude über das Gesehene hinterlässt.
    Danke!
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  • Strawberries777 2 months 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
    You captured real emotion here. Wow
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  • chipi-chipi plus 1 month ago
    woo thanks!!!! this is really pretty and touching.... ooo!!!
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  • josh lyon 1 month 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 1 month ago
    Congratulations, nice one!
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  • Clarence Ewing 24 days ago
    Wow! Fantastic work, David! Congratulations.
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