STACK - CG Animated Short Film 2019

A self-balancing robot with a peculiar hobby gets his patience tested.

My graduation film from Bachelor of Film and TV at Westerdals, Kristiania University College.

Director and animator
Asbjørn Lote

Producer
Simon Samdal

Scriptwriter
Linn Marie Fiksdal Lundh

Sound design and mastering
Magnus Bakke

Thanks to our teachers and mentors
Frode Søbstad
Axel Hellstenius
Rodrigo Stoicheff

Special thanks
Ivar Rystad

[colepeterson]

Someone finally used the default cube.

[TheFlux]

Great job on the expressions, this without a face!

[drewnotdrey]

The fact that the robots can emulate human-like emotions without any faces is a masterpiece!

[LFPAnimations]

I love how the reflection in his eyes shows what the robot imagines the blocks to be. Great job!

[hnwcfyy]

I can’t believe how much personality you got out of these robots. The sound design, the lighting, the camera moves, the concept—it’s all incredible and you’ve been giving us the building blocks (lol) to make this for free for years now. Incredible stuff.

[vigneshk]

1:33 lost my heart when the wheels spun. That was an helluva emotional expression

[thelurkingpanda]

I love how they are different but they compliment each other <3

[mmjf]

This is basically how every playtime goes when you have a younger sibling... You build something only for them to tear it down..

[-S]

I really don't know why such amazing contents never go viral and unworthy clips go viral in hours. Appreciate the work buddy, wish i saw this earlier.

[aquaticangel]

I am just blown away by how oddly realistic this looks! The lighting, movements, reflections, everything! It’s amazing, and super sweet.

[donttouchme]

I love this so much! Its adorable.❤ I love the fact that he's lonley and all the blocks are his friends but at the end he gains a true friend💙 Even though he always knocks over the blocks😊

[mustang]

Order versus chaos. Production versus destruction. Building versus destroying. Robots are capable of both. That's why robots need to be able to communicate with each other.

[BluePixelAnimations]

Amazing short film! The animation is really smooth! Great job!

[neikrodent]

To Destroy Something you must first Make Something
No Animated Short without a Moral

[thesteaksaignant]

it's amazing how much you can express with such a simple design (in terms of modelling, the animation must have taken ages)

[RuthwikRao]

Thrilled to see the final full result, this was adorable!


Probably a reach, a pretty deep one lol, but was the overall theme inspired in any way by the Buddhist practice of drawing Mandalas? They draw these huge, intricate geometric patterned designs using various colored powders and then mess it all up, to symbolize the creation-destruction cycle. The duo seem to enjoy the same practice of stacking up blocks and tumbling them down at the end.

[jensen]

5:00 I LOVE HOW HE TURNS AROUND THAT IS SO DAMN ADORABLE

[Meemoe_]

English teachers would absolutely adore this film and all its symbolism, characterization and all that jazz

[ATWStudios]

In the end, was Wall-E vs BB8. Love how the blocks aren't perfectly straight like at the end, made me think that they were stacked for real by a robot!

[artandgrow]

I LOVE the reflections, the inertia of motion, and overall design of everything. My only criticism is that both robots sounded like an electric screwdriver to my ear. But as a musician, maybe I’m just being oversensitive. ;) I‘m still amazed at everything else you managed to achieve in this wonderful short! ❤️