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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.)
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.
There should be a category for the vast number of science fiction films depicting futuristic robots in a world where lubrication has not yet been invented. The dogs in the recent War of the Worlds series another notable example.
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.
dayum, what kind of batteries those robots use? I need me one of those!!! Forget EverReady. I need EternalLife batteries! 50 year battery life or money back! WHAT??? I just now reached 8:16 ! hahaha I TOLE you bout dem batteries! I was 2 min earlier when I typed this out and now ... that's crazy. I KNEW them batteries were gonna go out. He could have bought NeverDie brand or even Epoch brand or at least Millennium economy brand but NOOO, he had to skimp and get Walmart brand. sheeesh. Serves him right!
Here at comment 316 this film takes me back to when first crossing the Carquinez Bridge while relocating school districts when in 11th grade. At the help of 2:23-2:24 pertaining to God fellowshipping with me about a man's falling state when I was in 2nd grade. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
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!
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! :)
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!!!!!
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.
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. 😊
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?
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.
w/o knowing who all did what on this, I can't comment on how good it is based upon how many people were involved and how old they are and how creative they are but to me.... just based on knowing a little about Blender and especially sound and music, this seems like a kind of beginner/intermediate level. I could point out many things that bothered me. Like just one example.... when the robot moves, the sounds should not be identical every time. They should NOT be samples of SFX flown in to represent some movement even if the motion is identical. There should be a tiny aspect that is different. Some of those sfx were identical samples and for ME, it didn't work. Been doing audio since the 60s but more than that, simple common sense will tell you that a motor will not have the exact same torque ever turn because every turn isn't an exact same turn even if it's a robot. The pitch mainly should change slightly each time. Even 30 or 40 cents of pitch change would have been better. I saw someone mention the actual soundtrack not being very good. Well, they are correct. The actual sounds are clearly low quality samples from some sample libraries but the actual musical composition is just not very good. It's rather amateur. Then there's the ending. Robot discovers hey, there's more to life than a barren desert. whippeeeeee. Okay... just learn blender folks and buy some cheap sound libraries and you too can make films for Dust!
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.
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.
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.
bro if you think this looks anything like generative AI you need to go to an optometrist and get your eyes checked. It is so clearly made with 3d animation.
I agree it is a huge meh... the script has no sense or it is not complete. The robot understood lots of things, but can not manage his battery recharge. LOL
@@purplehaze2342 I’m not a cook but I can still criticize the garbage that McDonald’s churns out every day. This film was made for us, the audience, and we have a right to have our opinions. Besides, it’s not like *every single video* on Dust goes viral. Filter their library for yourself if you don’t believe me.
Barbarella Update 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.
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.
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.
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. 🦿🦿🤖🍃⭐🤍
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
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?
A long journey but well worth it for a robot.
Windows wallpaper unlocked!
Not going to lie, I was waiting for the music to turn dark and the robot to start torching the green space.
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.
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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.
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 !
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.
And so, after pausing for 27 years to recharge using his comically undersized solar panel, the robots search for some dank weed continues.
I read this in David attenboroughs voice.. time for another bowl I think 😂
Literally i had the same idea 😂
The solar panel is a super concentrator
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.
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.)
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.
@@prophetzarquon Yes but the floppy disc is so iconic!
There should be a category for the vast number of science fiction films depicting futuristic robots in a world where lubrication has not yet been invented. The dogs in the recent War of the Worlds series another notable example.
Dazzling Graphics, mesmerizing plot...There but for the Grace of AI go I...Loved this..
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.
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.
Grounding is grounding.
1:06 losing interest 1:16 yet another distopia/armageddon flick 7:00 more deserts ( yawn ) 10:00 mother nature always wins ( yay )
Very good work!!! Congratulations 🎉
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.
And why would the battery alert not go off until things were really, really critical/dire? Wouldn't it signal declining battery sooner?!!
Congrats. That little map has brought death to far away reemerging life.
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!😍
dayum, what kind of batteries those robots use? I need me one of those!!! Forget EverReady. I need EternalLife batteries! 50 year battery life or money back! WHAT??? I just now reached 8:16 ! hahaha I TOLE you bout dem batteries! I was 2 min earlier when I typed this out and now ... that's crazy. I KNEW them batteries were gonna go out. He could have bought NeverDie brand or even Epoch brand or at least Millennium economy brand but NOOO, he had to skimp and get Walmart brand. sheeesh. Serves him right!
I like these little features but they always end too soon!
🎉 MARCO PAVANELLO 💯👍👍👍
Très bien fait
On arriverait même à avoir de la compassion pour le robot
I really wish they had a dozen more chapters to the story.
Флешбэк у робота о войне это сильно😂
Poor robot had PTSD.
thanks i enjoyed immensely.
Bravissimo!!!
Here at comment 316 this film takes me back to when first crossing the Carquinez Bridge while relocating school districts when in 11th grade. At the help of 2:23-2:24 pertaining to God fellowshipping with me about a man's falling state when I was in 2nd grade. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
movie name “The Horrible sounds"
Perfekt.Thanks.
Exceptional work and imagination. Landscapes and soundscapes are wonderful. Thanks.
What inspired this robot, how, why and to what end for what purposes?
Glad I subscribed as these are thought provoking & pleasing to view. Thank you, appreciate your talent.
Thanks for watching @michaelbezoski3096. We appreciate you, Earthling 👽
6:14 dang, what he doin to himself right there?
i want this to be an mmorpg...just a butt-load of different kinds of robots wandering about a post-apocalyptic wasteland!
*_Total Annihilation_* has entered the chat.
Will you choose ARM, or CORE?
Tears is not open to my eyes 👀 but open to hearts
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
😂
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?
Wonderful visuals!
Nice :) Thank you!
Appreciated the Ghibli films references.
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! :)
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!!!!!
Oh this is badass.
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.
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.
Nice rendering, but a complete whiff on the storytelling part.
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 😂
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!
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.
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
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. 😊
Excellent concept sir
Good storyline let’s hope this doesn’t become reality
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.
Great video!
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._
Well DONE!! At least there is more left than just cockroaches!! 😂 Another Eden perhaps!!! The Tree of good and evil!!!
ต้องถามว่าใครเป็นผู้สร้างและใครเป็น เจ้าของดูแลสร้าง โลกดวงดาวดวงนี้ อาณานิคมดาวนี้
(มนุ ษย์อยู่ไหนรกโลกขยะจะตามไปด้วยความอุดมสมบูรณ์ของธรรมชาติจะหดหายไป)
Nice to see a short Sci Fi film that isn't just another dystopian downer.
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.
surreal
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.
@ASchnacky ya, a bit off the wall with the war comment
w/o knowing who all did what on this, I can't comment on how good it is based upon how many people were involved and how old they are and how creative they are but to me.... just based on knowing a little about Blender and especially sound and music, this seems like a kind of beginner/intermediate level. I could point out many things that bothered me. Like just one example.... when the robot moves, the sounds should not be identical every time. They should NOT be samples of SFX flown in to represent some movement even if the motion is identical. There should be a tiny aspect that is different. Some of those sfx were identical samples and for ME, it didn't work. Been doing audio since the 60s but more than that, simple common sense will tell you that a motor will not have the exact same torque ever turn because every turn isn't an exact same turn even if it's a robot. The pitch mainly should change slightly each time. Even 30 or 40 cents of pitch change would have been better. I saw someone mention the actual soundtrack not being very good. Well, they are correct. The actual sounds are clearly low quality samples from some sample libraries but the actual musical composition is just not very good. It's rather amateur. Then there's the ending. Robot discovers hey, there's more to life than a barren desert. whippeeeeee. Okay... just learn blender folks and buy some cheap sound libraries and you too can make films for Dust!
There was a story here?
Bravissimo Marco
9 👍's up DUST thank you for sharing 🤗
I miss you and thanks for letting me dream
Certified Gold!!!!!
So they can create sophisticated autonomus robots, but not a satellite to take pictures of earth.
Lol robot at the beginning was channeling some god dammit energy and the robot experiencing wartime PTSD was interesting.
Excellent piece. Thank you.
Thanks for watching, Earthling. You're the best in the galaxy. 👽
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.
Camera man got tired of the robotic noises on the comically slow tincan, gre wings and flew ahead to explore the new area
very cool
DUST is the best aLL video
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.
Чернопесковое каменистое плато как 2я часть пустыни интересно!
Great video
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.
Weren't these the ones that destroyed life and the🌱 Robots were trying to protect it?🤷
Um, kinda meh. Interesting cgi, but soundtrack is rather simple and the visuals are what I would expect in a modern AI generated piece.
bro if you think this looks anything like generative AI you need to go to an optometrist and get your eyes checked. It is so clearly made with 3d animation.
I agree it is a huge meh... the script has no sense or it is not complete. The robot understood lots of things, but can not manage his battery recharge. LOL
At least they made a film that appears on a popular RUclips channel have you ?
Agreed... "What the heck was the point of that"
@@purplehaze2342 I’m not a cook but I can still criticize the garbage that McDonald’s churns out every day.
This film was made for us, the audience, and we have a right to have our opinions. Besides, it’s not like *every single video* on Dust goes viral. Filter their library for yourself if you don’t believe me.
nice work
Barbarella Update
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.
Very good!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
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.
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.
water steam, rain, corrosion - bad decision
I thought the dialog was well written!
This is awesome. Wish they made full length movies. Either stopmotion or cgi. I love this channel.
This may be about something relavant ; but I am too stupid to figure it out...
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.
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.
🦿🦿🤖🍃⭐🤍
Very very good
Always protecting Keagan Lanahan and Yousi Guo.
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
Brilliant and insightful.
Thanks for watching, Earthling. You're the best in the galaxy. 👽
If. YOU. WON'T DO IT THEY'LL Geographicly. WILL.
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