"POUR 668" Mixing will not be tolerated. Animation By Patrick Smith
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Published 2021-11-05
Synopsis:
You are free to choose, as long as you choose red or orange. A powerful pouring machine fills glasses with one of two selected colors. But one glass, a curious fellow with a spring in his step, has the tenacity to mix things up.
• WINNER Best of Show 2022 ASIFA-East (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation)
• WINNER Drawtastic Animation Festival 2022
• Honorable Mention Los Angeles Animation Festival 2022
Official Selection:
• 2D & 3D Animation Film Festival (USA)
• Athens International Film and Video Festival (USA)
• Lanterna Mágica International Animation Festival (Brazil)
• Animatex Animation Festival أنيماتكس (Egypt)
• International Animation Festival in Wiesbaden (Germany)
• Love Your Shorts Film festival (USA)
In this animation we continue the journey of numbered wine glasses, their heads filled with wine, or juice, or blood.. or ideology. In this installment of the series, the Machine is a great dispenser of these liquids. Each glass will grow with tribal enlightenment. But one glass, a curious fellow with a spring in his step, has the tenacity to mix two different liquids. At first this proves empowering as he whips and morphs himself to heights the others have not reached.. but the victory is short lived. The Machine reacts in alarm, and destroys the nuanced glass with brutality and precision. When the dust settles, the Machine gets back to the cycle of filling up glasses, but never mixing contents.
Director's notes:
For the first time ever, I’m going to publish this cartoon directly to Youtube instead of premiering at a film festival. That said, I am sending it out to my festival network post-premiere, so I'm hoping it will be in competition early next year (the film festival submission process happens months in advance). Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, I read every comment, and respond to those that are thoughtful or insightful.
This short film was drawn frame by frame using a Wacom Cintiq drawing tablet, in Adobe Animate. I also used Photoshop and After effects extensively. Since I'm a traditional animator, I still draw every frame. My process is straightforward, I construct a storyboard, build an animatic (which is a storyboard that is timed and rendered as a watchable movie). And then animate each shot individually. Those individual shots are put together with the background in After Effects (which is the modern day camera). I miss drawing directly on paper, but the process of scanning and coloring thousands of drawings took a very long time.
Director Bio:
Patrick Smith is known for his metaphorical hand drawn short films, as well as his experimental stop motion films. His formative years were spent as a storyboard artist for Walt Disney, and animation director for MTV. Smith is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts.
"Pour 668" Animated short film by Patrick Smith
Animated by Patrick Smith
Produced by Kaori Ishida
Associate Producer Eason Lu
Music by Filip Halon
©2021 Patrick Smith Animation LLC
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All Comments (21)
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New film "POUR 101", this episode delves deeper into the peculiar world of living and breathing wine glasses. https://youtu.be/IczJuPUESxs This is the sixth film of the series, all available to watch on my channel. Please share, and have a great day!
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My understanding of this: After the events of pour 585, cup number 585 set up this machine to ensure that none of the other cups try to rebel against him the way he rebeled against the original big cup. While the system grants the cups slightly more choice than what they had before, it will still not hesitate to crush anyone who tries to operate outside it.
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3:01 For some reason, I just love the little, “no” the cups whisper before they eventually get destroyed in these. Just one small word contains a lot of emotion, and this guy really took advantage of that. Good job!
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Having accidentally watched these in reverse order, I thought Orange was going to be the “wrong choice”. Seeing how X was treated and all.
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I can just imagine the last thoughts going through his head being: "Aw man...Curiosity really did kill the cat."
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668:*Mixes two colors* Society: OH HELL NAH
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Hey all "Pour Generation" has dropped! 🍷🍷Watch it here and let me know what you think: https://youtu.be/7QgtzRdtHJ8
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3:06 that was a bit violent-
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Honestly this just shows that trying something new and out of the ordinary of the law, there were serious and strict laws that were punished by death. So brutal yet so very informal. Nice video!
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Honestly seeing that there is an extra splash of liquid after 667's pour makes me wonder... has there ever been an accidental mixing? Like a extra drop pours into a wine glass and they don't want that color so they choose the other? Would the machine still smash them, empty them out and let them choose again, or some other thing that is unexpected? I don't expect an answer since that's how these types of films work, but I am curious about that.
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New film "POUR GAMES" :yt: Watch now and let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/JC8ZsRrdUqc 🔨
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beyond the animation, symbolism and art itself, you have a real talent for giving personality to these characters! i loved 668 for the brief moment they were on screen, and watching them be destroyed hurt lol
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My first impressions of this video were the its similarity to the two party political system evident in most countries. People choose one standing on life (red or orange) and stick by it for the most part until they die. This unwillingness to be open to other ideas strips us from our foundations of democracy. When someone like 668 here trys to keep an open mind they are Beeten down for being different.
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This feels like how my life of growing up in Asia and studied in US feels like. I've learnt from both sides and somehow always ended up in arguments because people always see their own side of the story when they never fully experienced both sides. Great animation as always!
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Just watched this at the wonderful Love Your Shorts film festival in Sanford, Florida. It was my favorite of the animation's block just because of the originality of the animation. It's like watching graffiti come to life!
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My favorite part is how the hammers came out, it made me think. Left hammer: You know the rules. Right hammer: And so do I.
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This style of animation never ceases to satisfy some part of my brain I didn't know existed! Nice job!
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This really shows how being curious could give you such a great punishment even though you unknowingly did something wrong. You can even see how scared 668 was because he didn’t know what was happening and he didn’t know why. These animations are great man!
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This is the one animation to inspire me this was the thing that started my animation career literally its just so good and smooth. Thank you Patrick Smith.
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I like the part where he said “it’s nuancing time” and then they literally murdered him.
