Sci-Fi Short Film "The Spark" | DUST
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- 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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Sort of reminds me of EVE the robot looking for life on earth in the Pixar movie WALL-E. cool.
That’s what I gathered. After a brutal war, the guardians protected Eve
That's what I immediately thought
@@toyadiinae9800 great minds think alike.
Yeah ! WALL-E evolved... and all the fat Humans died. Closure .
ЛЮБОФЬ СМЕРТЬ РОБОТЫ !
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.
yep, and the battery symbol is just like one would expect it, an AA battery.
I can't wait until AA battery icons for remaining power, are as vestigial as a 3.5" floppy disc icon for saving changes to a file.
@@prophetzarquon1922 Yes but the floppy disc is so iconic!
Tough robot, surviving that sand storm with all it's moving parts.
Its solar panel managed to recharge it, even though nearly half the panel was in shade!
(Shading even a tiny part of a solar panel, can reduce its production to nil, due to increased resistance.)
Not a single question I had was answered
I often wonder if these shorts are created to "pitch" an idea to a major studio. Leaving many questions unanswered in this early form might prompt executives to fund it? I don't know.
@@barnabyaprobert5159 It worked with District 9.
somethings are just left to the unknown…
Film is art, and like art, it is subjective. The viewer applies their own experiences, ideas, thoughts and ideas to what they view to create a story that answers their questions. I quite liked it.
@@barnabyaprobert5159 Creators usually do not have much to say. To write a cohesive story, or a mathematical theory is difficult, to write something resembling or being poetry is much simpler.
The ball is on the side of the viewer/reader, who needs to create meaning (semantics) himself.
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
My Comment👉 "Weren't these the ones that destroyed life and the🌱 Robots were trying to protect it?🤷"
Yea, confusing👀
If I had programmed these surviving robots, I would have programmed them to do, what they do, in this imaginary short sci-fi film.
They don't have to be robots, but can be human survivors transferred into a robot body.
Chappie the Defoliator3000
has learned _Regret_
It was entertaining and kept me want to watch, but yeah, the ending fell short, but there are only so many endings one can do with this. A twist might be when the bot runs out of battery, and wake ups up to more life.
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.
Even machines need to touch grass! Lol
This is the moral of the story. Period.
Period.
@@leonestello They don't have to be robots, but can be human survivors transferred into a robot body.
Poor robot had PTSD.
Dazzling Graphics, mesmerizing plot...There but for the Grace of AI go I...Loved this..
movie name “The Horrible sounds"
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
nah the robot was charged up the next day
Not with that tiny solar cell half covered! It'd be acting like a resistor instead of making power.
The motor noises were very irritating. Robot made more noise than a 1965 Studebaker. Whole thing seemed pointless by the end.
It was probably a bit rusty, having been in off mode for tens of years.
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?
Stowaway. Couple of years ago. It's great, tells a real story with an actual ending.
Dust used to be good, and actually live up to the expectation of what is a "short story".
Those days are long gone tho.
i want this to be an mmorpg...just a butt-load of different kinds of robots wandering about a post-apocalyptic wasteland!
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Will you choose ARM, or CORE?
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.
Lots of hours went into this well trodden path of a world after humans, but i liked it, spes when he fell into the underground.
Well we know what the spark is don't we!😱
Normally I don't like these ones with no dialogue but this looks absolutely amazing!😍
Nice rendering, but a complete whiff on the storytelling part.
Wonderful visuals!
Well we know what the spark is don't we!😱
Normally I don't like these ones with no dialogue but this looks absolutely amazing!😍
What inspired this robot, how, why and to what end for what purposes?
Huh. I didn't know robots could get PTSD.
Ever watch a rumba have a fit that can’t get to a spot it could before.
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...
😂😂😂
Gotta save something for Part 2!
Cool movie. I found it very entertaining watching it at 2x speed. (it was a bit slow)
Good call thanks
200% speed works perfect for me with all videos except music :-)
Yes
125% for music
Tears is not open to my eyes 👀 but open to hearts
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.
Nice to see a short Sci Fi film that isn't just another dystopian downer.
So they can create sophisticated autonomus robots, but not a satellite to take pictures of earth.
Glad I subscribed as these are thought provoking & pleasing to view. Thank you, appreciate your talent.
Thanks for watching @michaelbezoski3096. We appreciate you, Earthling 👽
after it entered the eden , its metal skeleton grows muscles and skins .
Would Eve then be an expansion pack...?
They didn't say it grew _ribs._
Appreciated the Ghibli films references.
I'm confused. This was uploaded 47 minutes ago, and yet I've seen this exact animation before. Is this a reupload, or an upload from another animation channel?
Same thought. And I was sure as he fell in the hole.
It must have been months ago when I saw this video the first time.
Outside my apartment building hangs a tattered flag that is at least 15 years old. This episode reminds me of that flag.
That's sad; they're supposed to be taken down & replaced when they get that way!
My grandmother kept one flying the whole time her sons were gone to war; it's very faded & tattered, but I wouldn't have been the one to tell her to take it down, either!
because the flag also has nothing to tell?
They're coming for you!
Well DONE!! At least there is more left than just cockroaches!! 😂 Another Eden perhaps!!! The Tree of good and evil!!!
Engaging, not too long on each shot-sequence. Excellent animation/cgi and not overdone so it looks like crappy cgi. Especially noticed the little things like an everso-slightly different pitch for the servo motors depending on directional load. A good piece of filmmaking all 'round! Thank you for showing us! :)
I don't get it but I enjoyed it anyway! The landscapes were particularly stunning. I usually prefer closure but somehow this was ok as an open ended story, up to interpretation. 😊
Lol robot at the beginning was channeling some god dammit energy and the robot experiencing wartime PTSD was interesting.
Main issue is that a robot has no emotions.
So, we as the viewer are experiencing a reaction video of a thing that doesn't react.
Exceptional graphics.
Great music.
Story works.
The robot has PTSD. It’s having flashback of the war and to have PTSD you must have feelings. Weird concept but that’s what everyone is saying.
@@Biketunerfy Good point!
Trouble is, you only can appeal to an audience who have ptsd..
Not sure ptsd is a feeling people return to or recommend in a film.
Girls want to feel romance or cy... Boys want to feel power or adventure. generally,... I like comedy and ideas. so... And then there's saturation.. A horror film saturates the viewer in the emotion. where this film, as brilliant as it is .. only glides past the feeling for a small while.
Weren't these the ones that destroyed life and the🌱 Robots were trying to protect it?🤷
This presentation is spectacular!!! Excellent screenplay and brilliantly executed. Brava. We need more content like this instead of the serialized stuff...that is why I stopped watching things here. MORE MORE MORE of this!!!!!
So i may be wrong but I'm taking a long shot guess at what i am taking from this.
As i do agree with other posts of being yet another post war/apocalyptic event or events that lead to the end of humanity it appears that the end shows either one of two things.
1, life can start over and will start over as evident of the birds and lush landscape at the end. or......
2, even in the most chaotic and abysmal situations there is always hope for a better ending
I think the soundtrack on this kinda made it worse. There was too much emphasis on the robotic sounds rather than trying to aid the storyline. I still think this is great work.
Could have used quieter joints & more crunching footsteps.
Very good work!!! Congratulations 🎉
Exceptional work and imagination. Landscapes and soundscapes are wonderful. Thanks.
surreal
This may be about something relavant ; but I am too stupid to figure it out...
If I had programmed these surviving robots, I would have programmed them to do, what they do, in this imaginary short sci-fi film.
They don't have to be robots, but can be human survivors transferred into a robot body.
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Synopsis
A remake that both parodies and pays homage to the original movie. Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.
Barbarella's kitschy sexploitational humor is sorely missing from today's corporate-approved media, even though modern media still manages to exhibit all the same biases with a hasty facade of moral outrage pasted over it. Ironically, most of the female _and_ non-cisgender people I know, have expressed that they _liked_ this kind of entertainment! (I first watched it, on a girlfriend's recommendation.)
I'm not sure any major studio would touch that live-wire with a ten foot pole, today.
Is it dreaming? Some hallucinogenic software? The sudden transition from desert and destruction to a green and fertile land is puzzling.
It wasn't sudden. A long period of time elapsed before the sun was visible and plants could grow again. In the meantime, the robot was off/out of power and finally "woke up" when the sun came out and the solar energy recharged it.
Чернопесковое каменистое плато как 2я часть пустыни интересно!
9 👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤗
Here in the comments section, where some are expecting an answer as to what's going on in this short, make me SMHR. What's wrong with just letting the events play out and enjoying the cool visuals, made by someone who clearly understands visual storytelling? Part of the fun is in the debate and speculation with others on what's happening, instead of having it spoon-fed by the filmmaker. Giving a concrete explanation is an insult to the intelligence of the viewer. Why not have some thought-provoking debate and discussion in the aftermath of seeing the film?
Wow! Thanks for this short. So incredible that idea of this script. Excellent!
Changed my life! Thought provoking!
the sarcasm is strong in this one :D
😂
all-SPARK is from Transformers. Everything else is from Wall-E. Comeon
Nausicaä ending, but with god warrior robots acting as ohm
The robot found a nice green place to F up and bring all of his buddies to have another war. Interesting concept. It’s kind of like what humans do 😂
The opening scene of the city looks like parts of Ukraine destroyed by Russia's ongoing invasion. Nicely done CGI, a lot of talent and effort went into creating this. There's much potential backstory here, what exactly was this war about? The plant logo embedded into the ancient war machine . . . who, what? If anything, lots of developed content that could be applied to a game / VR experience.
propagandist
@ASchnacky ya, a bit off the wall with the war comment
Hows the first bloated fireball shooting thing has moss on it when its in the sun with no shade in sight. Also that size solar cell would charge that robot in about 4 years. It began charging, then 4 years later wakes up to find his dumbass people all dead because they willingly stood in the line of fire of some immovable bloated things and all died like brainless chicken. So now he goes to green pastures to pick up farming. Shit howdy brother. PS Whats the crows circling, some tasty metal?
Amazingly encapsulated
It's what I believe these days is called a 'reset'. The world was destroyed, but will eventually recover. And a new cycle will begin.
I thought the dialog was well written!
thanks i enjoyed immensely.
Nice film, but the CGI was a little too clean and the HD aspects and reflections were a little too crispy clear and shiny
If. YOU. WON'T DO IT THEY'LL Geographicly. WILL.
This is awesome. Wish they made full length movies. Either stopmotion or cgi. I love this channel.
Cool film until the end when the camera flew, you noticed it was PC graphics, the flying camera ruined the film a bit at the end.
Very awesome.⭐
No dialect, no facial expressions but still SPARKS the emotions.
Did anyone else feel gutted when the droids battery died?😭😭😭
Bless its little metal socks.
🦿🦿🤖🍃⭐🤍
What if... the robots have the remains of the 'essence' of humans, uploaded into the machines before or during the apocalypse. And this is one, or the first, to follow 'natural human instinct' being drawn towards life instead of just looking for it and waiting at ground zero?
meh, the story could really be anything because the video was really a fairly typical shell with no actual depth to the story. :)
That's what a sane programmer would do.
So this had nothing to say.
It was the machines that saved nature from humanity? Right?
Whereas at first it seemed that the humans were attacked by the machines, it was in fact the machines defending nature from mankinds consumption and destruction of it.
At least that's what I got from it.
Especially good on full screen.
Those stellar visuals! Thanks for watching.
Très bien fait
On arriverait même à avoir de la compassion pour le robot
Excellent concept sir
Flight capabilities. C'mon now.
Why do robots need nature?
Unexplained. Might even be remnant programming with no real point!
Why do sci effects always have robots based on humanoid features?
Surely the best way to avoid having complex moving parts would be to have a fixed head with visual and aural sensors on every side negating the need to turn the head. Bipedal walking and balance isn't necessarily a good thing. All terrain wheels or tracks can be better (and still enable the climbing of stairs etc.).
I think Star Wars got it quite well with small wheeled robots (yes I know they still had humanoids too) doing all the simple little tasks. Why waste resources on complicated robots for simple jobs?
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@@prophetzarquon1922 Yup, T.A.R.S and C.A.S.E are perfect examples of what I'm talking about.
Bravissimo Marco
Good storyline let’s hope this doesn’t become reality
Certified Gold!!!!!
Great video!
👍
Now that is some next level world building. Mindblowing.
water steam, rain, corrosion - bad decision
DUST is the best aLL video
Nothing happened.
Perfekt.Thanks.
пожелания авторам: продолжайте развиваться. пока плохо.
0 plot. Par for the course at Dust.
I expected better from them!
Robots look for plants.
Robot finds plants.
The end.
I feel like there could have been more.
Every part of a human skeleton shifts to complete a single step: that should reflect on robotic-chassis' collar-bone-area, where the human head initializes bipedal-balance; people's heads dictate if they move, their neck sends weight of the head forward & a two-footed-gait catches up; movement looks poorly-conceived if the intricacies of a stride don't relate to-&-from the upper-upper-body, because walking doesn't rely on legs any less than the weight of the cranium.
Very very good
There was a story here?
That looks so *AI* generated...
Always protecting Keagan Lanahan and Yousi Guo.
A solar cod piece,huh…. Yeah that’s all I got from this.
Excellent piece. Thank you.
Thanks for watching, Earthling. You're the best in the galaxy. 👽
Great video
❤❤❤
Brilliant and insightful.
Thanks for watching, Earthling. You're the best in the galaxy. 👽
This reminds me of starwars movies ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤liked r2d2 robot and cpo.
Another esoteric masterpiece