Bent Out of Shape | Official Animated Short Film

The 3D animated short film, "Bent Out of Shape" follows the story of a dull, square woman and her child living in a dull, square world. However, when a bright, circular neighbor moves in next door, the square woman begins to feel that her lifestyle is being threatened. Even worse, she worries that her square child may be affected by the circular neighbor's influence...

This short film was completed over the course of a couple of years, and created entirely by Chloe Merwin as a senior thesis project in the Computer Animation program at Ringling College of Art and Design.

Copyright 2023 Chloe Merwin & Ringling College of Art and Design

[Sagelol]

Fun fact, circle shapes represent freedom, while square shapes represent solidity! This could be part of the meaning to this story!

[MoniqueAlexander-typi]

My daughter has this on repeat! "Let's watch it again"! She is 4 years old, and gets the message, "Love is contagious" 💞

[luluanimation]

I rushed from Tik tok to see this… I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT 💖💖💖💖

[MuntingpayasoTheClown]

Love the fact that the squares has a rough movement while circles moves smoothly :O

[dnpanimationstudio]

I like how they still have purple. Showing how they didn’t comeplety change themselves, just open ended themselves up to more!

[millionth_comment]

"Aw it's a cute little baking game!- ... Wait- oh..." I like how they still have purple.

[SpineSocket]

The fusion animation between the square version of the girl to the circular version is super impressive! This shows a great deal of technical and artistic talent. Amazing Work!

[sophia_]

It's all fun and games until triangle moves in 💀

[TheRealGato]

Got here from TikTok, this was so cute!!

The square mother is like ew you circle get out of my house 0:54

[Flower-lk]

2:23 “The little girl said I don’t want to be Minecraft”

[rabiahbebee]

1:21 Snapchat said that the circle is evil

[alexiskitty]

This is so pixar coded, shes gonna go so far in life, this is just the beginning. You have so much potential!❤

[Heavenly]

My inner child is healing i remember these short animations type of thing when i was younger

[jazlincahill]

Also at the end the circle girl was like " you two are mine now"

[oscarc]

Parents are the ones that are supposed to show whats right to thier child.. not culture or neighbors...

[MacynS]

This is so good and underrated I hope more people find this

[roosiart]

I love how the animations on the squares are slightly choppier than the circles! ^_^

[BillCipherGravityFalls]

This short film deserves an Oscar award. Loved every part of it from the animation to the story line! Keep going, Chloe ❤

[RafaelMirandaCruz-uu]

I love this short film. I wish there could be a sequel like there could be more shapes like triangle, oval, pentagon, hexagon, diamond, or many more