Eye in Tuna Care

A dentist's expertise is put to the test when an unusual patient seeks his help.

Original Music: Ray Lustig
Violist: Stephanie Anne Block
Recording Engineer: Taylor Hollyer
Reference Models: Maureen McGrath, Andrew Monastero, and Regina Lustig
Color design: Katie Cropper and John Walter Lustig
Dental Consultants: Dr. Peter Won, DDS; Jennifer Marin, DMD; and Ari Crystal, DMD
Creative and Technical consultants: Adam Ansorge, Bill Cromie, and Lauren Russell
Thanks: Signe Baumane, Tim Rauch, Tarik Charkaoui, Alisa Stern, Emmett Goodman, Mani C. Price, Jason Price, Emily Sutter, The Lustigs, Chris Conforti, Kevin Watkins, Ana Berlin, Dimitris Athos, Peter Fitzpatrick, and Virginia Cromie.
Script, direction, animation, voice, sound design, and editing: John Walter Lustig

[prismaticerror]

This is so good. The way none of the medical books say anything about how to help an eye (institutional/educational bias), the way the eye knows exactly what they need for help when they see the tools but aren't able to do it to themself and aren't able to tell the doctor how to help them either (personal disenfranchisement)... Hits hard. The voice acting and animation is also really good.

[thedevilsbandit]

This is why if you ever get injured on an alien planet, ask for a vet. They are more use to different anatomy.

[kyoskii]

Every part of this animations just hits, especially on rewatch. The foreshadowing of the dentist looking like he pulled out a clean white tooth, the crying child thinking the eye is the tumour and not a normal thing showing his uniqueness in this society. The first call to his wife about dinner. The photos in the wallet, the one behind the dentist chair showing him with a child, the fact he DOES check the books but due to either not researching enough or a desperate desire to help the guy (he didn't want to send him out in the rain) the genuine panic as he realises and the fuckin call to his wife. So much personalisation in just 4 minutes is amazing!

[lavendarghostie]

I have to say that the hand motions and the voice really shows the emotion. It's so well done.
Also you are able to see how the eye has no voice in the way that it doesnt have a mouth either. And even though mouths are the ones without handicap they are the ones that can't see, or more, they only see what they want. Because when he showed his eye and the problems the dentist thought to get rid of the eye. Honestly thank you, this must have taken along time.

[uzuwi]

Quote of the day: “When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.”

[Irin-rzez]

Outstanding work.
I loved how you could see that the dentist was a good genuine person but because of him choosing to not search more in depth or simply by the limitations of the medical knowledge he couldn't save the person. Some people say that it can be a representation of disability or unfair medical treatment and I agree on that but I also think about when doctors try to save patients that have and untreatable painful disease and they only can see how the tools they have are useless or make things even worse.
Love the animation style!

[Starvng_Rtist]

He thought that.... He was.... WHAT THE HECK THIS IS TRAUMATIZING

[paralysleeps]

This is amazing. I'm glad I discovered this animation. The visuals, voice acting, soundwork, and the story is just- amazing

[mushroomcapp]

I this this is a beautiful representation of so many aspects of the medical world.
I did see another commenter state that they believed this was a statement on racism in the medical world
I believe their point was valid but my perspective is disability in the medical world
I believe that the eye had a disability that largely unaffected their life but changed how they interacted with others and how others viewed them.
The dentist isn't a bad person but he jumped the gun and instead of using the computer to look into a wider range of information he used the books he collected that wasn't built for eyes but teeth.
He operated under the guides that would be the same. That he didnt have to look any deeper but thats all he needed to know.

I also keep thinking about that poster slowly falling
This could be read as mental state of the doctor doing everything he can but failing. Or the health of the patient slowly declining till there's nothing left

Either way this is an amazing story with so many deeper elements i feel like i could write many papers on it

[mastersofdarkness]

This is one of my new favorite animations, the voice acting is just great and voice of the dentist seems so genuine, dennis (the eye man) seems so interesting and especially that he doesn't talk, but that ending...jesus I always forget that there's not going to a good ending, the dentist trying to chat with dennis only for no reply, I was thinking "dude he can't talk", until I saw what's left of him, very underrated animation in my opinion

[ClownsRottenMeat]

Horribly underrated, this is gorgeous work

[HG_Creates]

Hope the algorithm keeps picking this up amazing work

[thequeenofmags]

anything less than a million views for something this amazing is insane to me

[VeliThaCasual]

He removed his whole eye bc he has no clue on how to help someone with eye all he knows is how to remove things

[catt]

Absolutely obsessed with everything about this animation. the work that went into this is insane!

[Milkstache-psth]

Why do I feel so bad for the eye idk why tho

[esa]

This is so creative, humans are amazing :)

[penand_paper]

Beautifully done! I love the animation style as well - I don't see more traditional forms of linework as often, and I like them. The music as well compliments the video very nicely.

[lavendarghostie]

This video is amazing I love it so much. I found it a while ago but this might be one of my favorite videos on YouTube. Like there are so many aspects to it. Like for it is in a literal sense "I have no mouth, yet I must scream", like the one person who needs to scream, cry out, explain, cannot, they have no voice in this world. But you can see he has learned the best way he can communicate is by body language, pointing, putting his hand together to say please > 🙏. And like the doctor first asks how he can help, because he is kind he isn't just gonna try and get rid of it, although you can be sure he isn't used to this and doesn't know what to do. But when he points to his eye as the problem, the doctor goes "oh of course!" Like he doesn't know, he was trying to be nice. But also you know from that moment he probably thinks he knows what he is gonna do. Although he is not wanting to hurt him, he's never done this before. And you can see that he thinks that the fact that his eye has that stuff in it, to him is a result of the eye, not some other problem. Because that's how it is, you've never seen an eye before, you wouldn't know that most eyes don't naturally have that green in them. I just love everything about this, I don't like a lot of horror type stuff but this is amazing I have no idea how I found this. There is so much more than I haven't said or probably thought of yet but it's literally so amazing, thank you for making this.

[dukemarsley]

This is amazing man 😭 hope you'll get more recognition