BOLAVLK/WEREAWOLF | animation student film 2023 [read CW in desc!]

!!CW: Flashing imagery (6:07-6:27), online grooming, mentions of zoo/ped0philia

🐺Film about sparkledogs, werewolverines and other things that are JUST drawings. The texting parts are based on real conversations I've had age 12-16 with a deviantart "friend".

Wahh after a year it's finally done! This was my last animation uni film, It is probably my least filmlike film yet but I'm glad I got to create this weird thing. Hope you'll enjoy!

Couple of credits of everyone who helped with this film :0

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[sournoodl]

To answer a few questions I get a lot:

🇸🇰 The language spoken is Slovak :0

🐺 For animation I used Tvpaint 10 and aftereffects for compositing

🌕 I studied animation at UTB in zlin in Czech Republic, graduated successfully and now I study computer science. Fun fact: I made this film during my first year of CS and it wouldnt be ever done on time without the help of my friends and classmates ^^

🦴There will not be a sequel but irl I managed to permanently cut contact with the groomer at 17, of course that guy didnt meet any consequences, hence the lack of resolution in the film. On the more positive note, at 24, I feel like Ive healed myself properly (partially because of this fiom as well) and a lot of trauma responses disappeared too ^^

[longsnoutpug]

The little detail of the friend saying "I had epilepsy seizure. I almost died." and the really violently flashing lights in the end is so powerful

[elvinruneson]

The contrast between the Slovak spoken dialogue in the daytime and the English written text in the nighttime made this feel even more real to me. The linguistic disconnect between the internet and the real world for people who don't live in English speaking countries is something I haven't really seen represented before

[cramerfloro]

I love how the teacher just let's her keep drawing when she sees that she's also doing her homework. Wish I had had one of those, growing up…

[cellowhite]

When i saw them drawing "vent art " i immediately felt sick because its 100% an accurate representation of how minors like myself at the time i was groomed responded to trauma. Especially when we felt like we couldnt tell anyone

[fatsnek]

I love the “bite at the hand that feeds you” symbolism. It feels like what Issac is doing to her almost. She gives and gives but still gets bit.

[KoKoKorrrri]

I want people to also take notice to how in the references for the wolf characters, the artist is listed as 13, while the other whom is requesting is 19. It’s very common for minor artists to be forced into drawing inappropriate drawings for adults. Thank you for covering this topic, it was a wonderful animation to go along with it

[Marie-twui]

I love how the teacher understood that Lara is in a bad mood through her drawings and is like "Understood, have a great day!".

[Thehamburgeler]

I hate how nobody is talking about the wolf. The wolf being slow to eat the meat from the hand, basically showing Isaac getting what he wants from Laura, then bitting the hand when the girl goes to pet the wolf HAS to signify basically what Isaac was doing to Laura in a way

[POBBLEBONK.]

I was NOT expecting this to get me but jesus that ending. That.. that visceral rage- the fury was presented so well. I haven’t been in the same situation exactly, but I was groomed around 2 years ago by someone I considered a friend. The just. Uncontrollable hate and anger in that last scene… really hits.

[the_amazing_vix]

4:24 I love how she looks at the math instead of the drawings. Like, she cares more about the quality of her learning than what she's drawing. I wish this was the case in American schools, or at least in my school.

[aoikuma]

I don’t think y’all are getting that the “toxic friend” isn’t a friend. that who’s also speaking to her about heavily sexual things, and even BLACKMAILING HER, is a whole groomer. 💀

[alfalfasalads]

The "friend's" super fake apology at 5:42 gets so badly under my skin. That is such a manipulative fake apology, and someone I knew online kept doing this every time they did something awful to me or our mutual friends.

This animation is devastating and necessary, and its true horror is how *common* this is.

I'm glad you're out and away from the person who groomed you as such, and that you've been healing from the ordeal.

And to everyone else who has had a similar experience, I wish you can heal as well.

[dascodraws]

the artist and parasitic "friend" relationship is so relatable.

[victort]

I find it poetic, that the ‘friend’ said he was in the hospital from epilepsy, then at the end when she transforms, it needs a seizure warning.

[Rowanberrry]

idk if this was intentional, but the foreshadowing between the main character biting her hand at 1:45 before attempting the search the first time, in the same spot on the same hand that the dog also bites her, is absolutely amazing

[nusquam-e.q.u.e.]

That one redraw of Machine Girl's WLFGRL album at 6:16 is the cherry on top of that dope animation

[zarlathevenecianwreck]

The bleach scene, representing how irreversible the images were to their mind, hit so hard. They didn't want to see it, it was something forced onto them. Something they can't clean from their mind.

[missingnoghost]

I don't think I've ever seen the experience of being 13 in early 2010s captured so succinctly. I can literally feel the crusty eyes and dehydration during those 3am scenes

[realuity]

the pure rage seen with the ending bit is so viscerally real. the anger that you were used, you're being used and the helplessness that comes with it. treated like a caged dog.