Sci-Fi Short Film 'The Spark' | DUST

Humanity is long gone. After an apocalyptic war, a member of the team of robots tasked with finding a new hope for life discovers a mysterious map.

"The Spark" by Marco Pavanello

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"The Spark" Credits:
Marco Pavanello: Director, Producer, Music, Modeling, Animation
Josue Rivera: Robot Protagonist
Bernardo Iraci: Greenland set
Joseph Dowling: Previz, General Advisor
Nathan Craddock: General Advisor
Stefan Radenkovic : General Advisor

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[Biketunerfy]

Sort of reminds me of EVE the robot looking for life on earth in the Pixar movie WALL-E. cool.

[stevenhill]

Not a single question I had was answered

[NC-oyhq]

So many years after the big robots protected life from the small robots and now the small robots know life’s protectors are gone ? Kind of confusing story. And I agree with some of the others saying the soundtrack was lacking

[Nailnuke]

I don't know what to think. It's reminiscent of other robot shorts with failing batteries. It's nicely done and I think you're alluding to a robot who's achieved feelings, but it's a well trodden path.

[videolabguy]

Nice demo reel. Beautiful rendering as usual. Absolute inability to tell a solid story. But, it has all the clichés. Dusty city ruins. Mysterious end of humanity - as usual. Some life at the end. Who? Why? When? Where? What for? WTF? So much potential. So little realization.

[richardwernst]

Again, no idea what yet another DUST movie is about/the point, etc. Are there any that actually tell a whole story with an ending?

[preparedscouter]

Even machines need to touch grass! Lol

[teleroel]

Tough robot, surviving that sand storm with all it's moving parts.

[joeled]

Huh. I didn't know robots could get PTSD.

[JJ-mlsj]

So post-apocalypse robot took sooo long to recharge via a tiny solar cell that the world not only recovered, but some society had also noticed the robot recharging, built statues of it, then died out too... this was really good :D

[noncalamari]

Nice rendering, but a complete whiff on the storytelling part.

[fjdarling]

Great special effects. Still, a machine does not need an external reminder of it's battery condition. That effect would be for the benefit of some external entity.

[pswanberg]

So they can create sophisticated autonomus robots, but not a satellite to take pictures of earth.

[druceeeee]

i want this to be an mmorpg...just a butt-load of different kinds of robots wandering about a post-apocalyptic wasteland!

[markbeames]

What inspired this robot, how, why and to what end for what purposes?

[willsherman]

The motor noises were very irritating. Robot made more noise than a 1965 Studebaker. Whole thing seemed pointless by the end.

[Gwen-xd]

Outside my apartment building hangs a tattered flag that is at least 15 years old. This episode reminds me of that flag.

[aarons]

Those big ones attacking look a lot like the turtle men from the movie 5th element.
so the robot was dormant for how long to recharge?
sort of confused here.

[dloui]

after it entered the eden, its metal skeleton grows muscles and skins .

[bikebudha]

Once I saw the leaf on the big robot, I was expecting the small 'enemy of the big" robot to call the other robots and start killing everything...