'POUR 668' Do Not Mix Colors! Animation By Patrick Smith

"Pour 668” is a sequel to “Pour 585." It's another metaphorical hand drawn animated film, this time a powerful pouring machine inflicts punishment on a wine glass for mixing liquids. Nuance is not allowed. You are free to choose.. as long as you choose red or orange. Choose a side or the consequences are severe. Tyranny within a society is the deliberate removal of nuance.

Synopsis:
You are free to choose, as long as you choose red or orange. A powerful pouring machine fills glasses with one of two selected colors. But one glass, a curious fellow with a spring in his step, has the tenacity to mix things up.

• WINNER Best of Show 2022 ASIFA-East (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation)
• WINNER Drawtastic Animation Festival 2022
• Honorable Mention Los Angeles Animation Festival 2022

Official Selection:
• 2D & 3D Animation Film Festival (USA)
• Athens International Film and Video Festival (USA)
• Lanterna Mágica International Animation Festival (Brazil)
• Animatex Animation Festival أنيماتكس (Egypt)
• International Animation Festival in Wiesbaden (Germany)
• Love Your Shorts Film festival (USA)

In this animation we continue the journey of numbered wine glasses, their heads filled with wine, or juice, or blood.. or ideology. In this installment of the series, the Machine is a great dispenser of these liquids. Each glass will grow with tribal enlightenment. But one glass, a curious fellow with a spring in his step, has the tenacity to mix two different liquids. At first this proves empowering as he whips and morphs himself to heights the others have not reached.. but the victory is short lived. The Machine reacts in alarm, and destroys the nuanced glass with brutality and precision. When the dust settles, the Machine gets back to the cycle of filling up glasses, but never mixing contents.

Director's notes:
For the first time ever, I’m going to publish this cartoon directly to Youtube instead of premiering at a film festival. That said, I am sending it out to my festival network post-premiere, so I'm hoping it will be in competition early next year (the film festival submission process happens months in advance). Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, I read every comment, and respond to those that are thoughtful or insightful.

This short film was drawn frame by frame using a Wacom Cintiq drawing tablet, in Adobe Animate. I also used Photoshop and After effects extensively. Since I'm a traditional animator, I still draw every frame. My process is straightforward, I construct a storyboard, build an animatic (which is a storyboard that is timed and rendered as a watchable movie). And then animate each shot individually. Those individual shots are put together with the background in After Effects (which is the modern day camera). I miss drawing directly on paper, but the process of scanning and coloring thousands of drawings took a very long time.

Director Bio:
Patrick Smith is known for his metaphorical hand drawn short films, as well as his experimental stop motion films. His formative years were spent as a storyboard artist for Walt Disney, and animation director for MTV. Smith is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts.

"Pour 668" Animated short film by Patrick Smith
Animated by Patrick Smith
Produced by Kaori Ishida
Associate Producer Eason Lu
Music by Filip Halon
©2021 Patrick Smith Animation LLC
#patricksmith #animation
Stock Media provided by BlueJayStudio / Pond5

[bradleyadams]

My understanding of this: After the events of pour 585, cup number 585 set up this machine to ensure that none of the other cups try to rebel against him the way he rebeled against the original big cup. While the system grants the cups slightly more choice than what they had before, it will still not hesitate to crush anyone who tries to operate outside it.

[agerman-speakingfilipino]

3:01

For some reason, I just love the little, “no” the cups whisper before they eventually get destroyed in these. Just one small word contains a lot of emotion, and this guy really took advantage of that. Good job!

[goldengunslinger]

I can just imagine the last thoughts going through his head being: "Aw man...Curiosity really did kill the cat."

[Joseph_Drew_III]

Having accidentally watched these in reverse order, I thought Orange was going to be the “wrong choice”. Seeing how X was treated and all.

[chaos]

668:*Mixes two colors*
Society: OH HELL NAH

[unknownanonuser]

668: *mixes 2 liquids together*
The mechanical hands: *I'm boutta end this man's whole career*

[kewlman]

This style of animation never ceases to satisfy some part of my brain I didn't know existed! Nice job!

[vortex]

Honestly this just shows that trying something new and out of the ordinary of the law, there were serious and strict laws that were punished by death. So brutal yet so very informal. Nice video!

[nicholaschau]

This feels like how my life of growing up in Asia and studied in US feels like. I've learnt from both sides and somehow always ended up in arguments because people always see their own side of the story when they never fully experienced both sides. Great animation as always!

[mutanttepig]

Honestly seeing that there is an extra splash of liquid after 667's pour makes me wonder... has there ever been an accidental mixing? Like a extra drop pours into a wine glass and they don't want that color so they choose the other? Would the machine still smash them, empty them out and let them choose again, or some other thing that is unexpected? I don't expect an answer since that's how these types of films work, but I am curious about that.

[stCTGOffical]

This really shows how being curious could give you such a great punishment even though you unknowingly did something wrong. You can even see how scared 668 was because he didn’t know what was happening and he didn’t know why. These animations are great man!

[reetili]

He’s so good at this he should honestly be An animator

[Rye-Bread]

WAIT STOP THAT WHISPERED NO ABSOLUTELY BROKE MY HEART-


I don’t draw but god I have never been as propelled / driven to make some kind of fanart as now
I want my boy back and happy😭

[DestinyPogChamp]

I feel so bad for him. When I saw the hammers come out I was thinking "Nice thinking! The hammers are gonna crack his legs so he can leak the liquids out", but then I saw his legs and torso get destroyed. Then I thought "Oh, well maybe he gets repaired and has to wear a DUNCE hat" but then I saw the hammers come back. I had an idea of what MIGHT happen, but I shrugged it off, thinking "No, there's no way the hammers are gonna kill him, all he did was mix two colors" but when I heard him say in the DARKEST tone possible, "No..." I KNEW what was gonna happen. It was almost as if he was about to say "No... Please!"

[duckgod]

This is the one animation to inspire me this was the thing that started my animation career literally its just so good and smooth. Thank you Patrick Smith.

[ch._]

beyond the animation, symbolism and art itself, you have a real talent for giving personality to these characters! i loved 668 for the brief moment they were on screen, and watching them be destroyed hurt lol

[stalloneandrew]

The Machine's hands owns veins, means they are completely pissed when there's the one who mixed both liquid.

RIP 668 😢

[blake_corpus]

So society doesn't like us to be different...
Also, at 3:00 He said: "No", as his last word, It got my feeling somehow right there...

[mikeberry]

Just watched this at the wonderful Love Your Shorts film festival in Sanford, Florida. It was my favorite of the animation's block just because of the originality of the animation. It's like watching graffiti come to life!

[mutanttepig]

Awesome job. Sometimes I wish people would go the same path as this curious little wine glass, but people are picky and choosing and you have to go down one path or the other. I wish that the world could learn that sometimes being different is good and stomping out these differences is bad.