Awesome, sweet style.

Added to Blender3D [Animation/Videos].

the banana makes it for me!

Cool animation. I enjoyed the banana as well.

Very nice animations, the movements feel right together with the sound effects.

Hhahahaaha Excelent!!!!!

Please don't use cross transitionsssss :P

i like it , very good !

Wow! Nice work! This is definatly in Pixar syle :)

Very fun. Love the style and feel. Great how you can give personalities to non-living objects.

Awesome work! Really enjoyed it!!!

Only one thing: give credit to the music makers/singers, the software you made the animation with and, if you used them, the sources of your textures and sounds! That's important.

Cheers!!!

That is really amazing. I think anthropomorphic animation is one of the most difficult to pull off, but you did it beautifully.

Did you do all of the barrel anims with just bones and morphs?

5/5 stars.

Please do another.

Сool! Сool! Сool! Сool! Сool! Сool! Сool!)

How'd you do the "telescope" effect with the pipes?

WOW!!!
Very great and much funny!

That's a great piece of work there. It would be interesting to know how much time you have in it.

Thanks for the comments everybody!
Leonardo: you are right, so I will mention it here: The end song is 'Le Festin' by Camille. All other sounds are from Istock or created by me (all modified in audacity). I used Blender for all 3d work, Premiere for sequencing. Only one image was used (for the banana), that was created by me in photoshop.

Gnaws: I used bones and a lattice to animate the Barrel. I didn't use any shape keys (morphs).

Noah: For the telescope effect I parented the objects to bones and scaled them.

OnjoFilms: This took me about 5-6 weeks to make.

I was trying to understand just what made this vid so compelling and entertaining. It was such a simple plot! There were many subtle things that held my attention very firmly, most of them quite subtle.

Do you have any advice on making animations fun to watch??

Hi Lyle, There are many things that make animations fun to watch.
I think it is very important to make sure things move in a fun way, the best way to ensure this is by following the 12 basic principles of animation (which I am still learning).
It's also important to make sure things move swiftly, and not to show a shot for too long if nothing is happening, or the viewer might get bored.
There are also many other things like color, sound, cam angles, cam movement etc but I am no expert (yet!) and still have a lot to learn in all those aspects. I learned a lot from making this animation and there are already many things I would do differently now.

Odd story... But very well done!!
The machine transformation is the best!
Congratulations!

How did you get the ground to crack like that?

great job bud, nice animation, and beautiful texturing and lighting job!

The titles at the end all showing the same name I will change it to end with:

Blender: Ton Roosenthal

Really fun and inspiring! Simple, nice and wacky. I'll never forget I've seen this.

Very good indeed! Dynamics and timing are perfect, please, let's make some more tuts about how to make such a nice things! :)

nice vid .

Brilliant!

Pretty Good!

brilliant

very nice animation

awesome! I really like the lighting, and the bannana made me laugh :D the barrel's curious reaction completes the moment!

did you just use a skylight and an orange specular-only light?

I don't use blender, just max and maya.

The big point is the banana!!! jajaja

Woow! I really love it!

good stuff, though i have no idea how you came up with this.

Cool video! Subtle things like the banana have a huge impact on the whole video. It`s all about the details, isn`t it? :) Keep up the good work.

Fabulous work. I agree with the earlier poster about the dissolve transition. To me that spells 'passage of time' and isn't really appropriate in that context.
Other than that - beautiful - personality, weight, timing, story all great!