Olaf is a young cannon living a carefree smalltown life, appreciated by everyone around him. Then, on his 14th birthday, he is confronted with the more destructive side of being a cannon. He feels forced to leave his damaged friends behind, and go out into the world in search of an elegant solution to this devastating problem.
The film is an 11 minutes computer-animated black-and-white piece in an ideosyncratic style, both in visuals and in story-telling. A lot of the the digital techniques used were geared towards keeping a kind of hand-made feel, introducing fabricated errors and very analog sounds mixed with the pure digital synthetics and hard contrast a computer offers. Production took, on and off, about five years, though the core idea of the story and characters is way older. It's now touring the festival circuit.
| Duration: | 11:42 min. |
| Color: | almost none |
| Made at: | 16:9, 2K, 24fps |
| Sound: | dialogue-free Dolby 5.1 |
| Main tools: | Cinema 4D, After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Flash, Paper, Softboard, Hands, Brains |