Quintessence - Vancouver Film School (VFS)

[Adraalto]

Very beautiful short-movie, truly poetic, and a great soothing music.. I Really love it !

[ Sweet Princess ]

Someone knows the name of this song ?

[VancouverFilmSchool]

@Adraalto Hi, the song was composed by members of the faculty. Thanks!

[Adraalto]

@VancouverFilmSchool

This school, and its students, are amazing ! Great work (and the best short-video seen this last months).

[evelfa]

I found this video 2 years-ish and it is by far my most favourite video on all of youtube! Not to mention Vancouver is, so far, my most favourite place in the world!

[FirePhonixWolf]

i love the animation and the meaning behind it ^_^.

[MySniffle]

Amazing truly amazing. I wish I could give five star but instead I can give you a thumbs up.

[addicted2thebeatlez]

beautiful

[equarg]

A great tribute to the four mystical elements....air, water, fire, and earth.

[LeevuskaRakastaa]

mozilla. :D

[VitaNuovaRevolution]

aw, that was awesome!!!

[dacrappychap]

I actually thought they would all start beating each other up, i was wrong

[ShadowSoldior]

Heh, I didn't think I'd be the only one to go "Fire Fox, ha!"

[streetlight13]

LOVE~

[MusicWhore28]

one world:

-beautiful

[lollollol189]

That was so beatuifully done! quintessential as it states!

[cherrycola0]

beautifully done! really.. i love it

[RidgeRacerLord]

firefox! :D

[PaoTchukon]

si me gustó... bien!

[Gielio1993]

cool! cute lol nice music too

[BokitoBanana]

nice power point presentation pooooooooop

[ASesqui]

wow!  I like the way the elements are introduced with a fluid motion and the interpretation of each of them

[ElisabethShockma]

would be a good earth day film

[derdinisigim]

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by the way this video is good.

[BluBel123]

O_o

[KVHE]

this gonna be a good commercial

[garfield8coffee]

that was crazy cool! ;)

[ZeroZero05]

i love it.... and music too

[TillThenPlease]

The deer foot hitting the ground causing plants to sprout up was a complete bite from Princess Mononoke. Still, pretty cool stuff. Good job

[TehKamp3r]

I understand what your saying but the sricking of the Ground and life springing forth has insperation from many cultures hindi the bible and many anchiant pagan religions, long before Princess Mononoke.

[Tigeroovy]

@TehKamp3r I was in the same class with Nick, there wasn't any Religious undertones to the film. He just likes effects, and the elements are just that.

[PunkChic029]

I love it, magnificent work...keep it up...one day you might even make some full length movies for the theaters :)

[saruhara]

simple, short and phenomenal.

[rac753]

Quem merda.

Tem gente que confunde filme bem feito com filme bom. Esse é muito bem feio, mas é uma merda mesmo assim.

[monimoni0147]

0:41 firefox lol

i think it will e better with a phoenix in the fire part ^^

anyway i like this vid =D

[Valencius]

hahaha I thought the same!!!

[missingways]

simple but very enjoyable

[madskittlez1122]

FireFox was so cute. This whole thing just makes me smile. :)

[Peanutpaw]

pretty!

[lokohehehe]

err... confused.. is this drawn? or made from a computer?

[Peanutpaw]

Both I think...

[JennyThePennywafel]

i was a bit angry but not anymore...very peacefull animation you made! liked the behavior of the fox and the dear + backdrops the most!

[hs956]

short but amazing

[lOwelLy]

stunning

[Bengaliax]

the art is really cool, i especially like the ocean bit with the whale. It was a very moving animation and i wish i had made it!

[FilmTraum7]

Nice vid!

[Dooley616]

wow. breath taking. loved the animation. loved the graphic development. great video. 5 stars

[1sy4]

Quintessence is so beautiful and kewl!!! Wish i could watch it over and over again...

[urgii85]

Watch alot of Hayao Miyazaki?:)

Nice work.

[419chris419]

lol 0:44 firefox

:D

[Apfelbox]

amazing =)

[fireprooffaith]

quintessencially beautiful...

[madskittlez1122]

Ahhhhh!

beautiful, stunning, adorable

[xCYN116]

Cool concept. =)

[ShinriKanshisha]

The art is very beautiful...

[kusalausa]

AMAZING video.. I loved it.. its one my VFS favorite video for sure! Congratulations on doing such a good work!

[Xenooni]

sick dude good job.

[TraceurDom]

i agree mate!

[TakNomed]

Very beautiful and artistic. I really enjoyed it.

[BunnyBiscuit]

That was really nice! It reminds me of disneys Fantasia!

[EUVALU]

you are the best

[mooxim]

beautifully animated

[sosalabite]

beautiful!

[Munchy365]

that deer reminds me of princess mononoke.

[feligirl01]

That was so good :)

[steroidssavedmylife]

very nice classical animation!

[whetutu]

Beautiful representations of air, water fire and earth. Very graceful. I would have liked to see the whale completed earlier though - we didn't see its tail complete until the rest of it was already out of frame so we never saw the 'whole' whale.

[FelixValentin]

BRAVO

[CB0T]

VFS is the best.

[thecrazycousins]

genesis chapter 1.

[cheesycheesenugget]

cool

[gijis02]

Beautiful... Simply beautiful.

[steroidssavedmylife]

Another fine product from VFS

[BronxKidBeyond]

fire fox reference at :40 was a nice touch.

[legzandherpiano]

I'm thinking the earth should've been made first. Just a thought.

[whetutu]

The four elements are the things that make up the earth. We saw each of them individually, then saw the four come together to make the whole. For me, this was the correct order.

[YetWhyNotProductions]

Yeah, I was feeling the Ghibli-esqueness behind it. But, it wasn't just a copy. It was definitely original, and it's very befitting of it's title. It's beautiful =)

[SkyAboveRiver]

i get it except for the earth part

[iHeartAnimes]

that was absolutely beautiful. awesome job. my fav was definitely the fire fox :)

[PengunaFilms]

THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!

[DCCH21]

its perfect!

[DarkAngelEU]

very beautiful ^^ love the four elements thingy

[kostywosty]

i like fox on fire)

[LordGordonInteractiv]

Wonderful! I see a lot of citations for the Master Miyazaki ;)

[vbalock]

Okay, so I'm not the only one! I thought the deer was like the forest spirit from Princess Mononoke

[LordGordonInteractiv]

Yes! The Deer scene is the key of the citation ;)

But the spirits are a love theme for Miyazaki.

[Dunsay]

Anyone else got an "Okami"-feeling from this one? :)

[mavaddat]

I felt like the deer of life was like the thing from Princess Mononoke. You know?

[Billythachikk]

Wow.

[xu3yj6]

yeah..it is so beautiful..

[KeepFrozenThisSideUp]

beautiful :D

[alfredofroylan]

Great video and nice style, the part with the deer remainds me Mononoke Hime.

[PaulaRiccobono]

the concept was illustrated fairly well - good job :)

[3FootStarfish]

Very simple. Wonderful animation. Great job!

[alhaquin]

hmm did he used flash?

[ColdWarKiller]

he most likely used a 3d program

[kastasir]

why? There is nothing in 3d

[ColdWarKiller]

3d max has a 2d texture that gives it the look of 3d.

i am not sure though.

[ColdWarKiller]

3d max has a 2d texture that gives it the look of 2d.

i am not sure though.

[Hyperactivexp]

that was amazing! loved it!

[Faythalie]

This is really wonderful.

Thank you a lot for your amazing work!

[FilmsWENT]

I thought it would be boring, but after 30 seconds I started to enjoy it. Nice work, peaceful. :-)

[ChinoBandito68]

Hey, thank you all for the comments, to answer one of the questions i read, this took roughly 6 months or so to do. From story boarding to final color and editing.

[TurtlesTheClown]

Sweet vid Nick

[assassin3004]

Skillfully done! :D

[adam61589]

I love work like this.

[GlennAxion]

Just my 2 cents,

if the background has no outline, the animated object shouldn't have thick outlines, they don't look real together.

And the timing for movements was not impressive. . . .

[7hippo7]

Stunning, just absolutely stunning.

[photototebag]

wow- that was beautiful.

[Tigeroovy]

WEEEW NICK

CA68 REIGNS SUPREME

[grantmoore3d]

Really enjoyed that one!! Good job!

[atraus]

great video!

[88rubi]

Great Video but how long did it take for you to do this?

[Anchiel]

beautiful ^_^

[konikula]

That is art. But I doubt some epic animation could be done using such techniques. If you can, I am curious and waiting 4 results.

[DAVETYIOP]

Showing the four elements. I liked it!

[gondra13]

lols, 41-44 = Mozilla Firefox

[yanndick]

Fox for fire ? Why ? I just can't link them this way.

[jaaxxor]

alot of mythilogical creatures of fire were foxes

besides think of an animal you can think of to rep fire

[yanndick]

Firefly. Dragon. Phoenix.

[jaaxxor]

ok i give you the fire fly but the other animals arent real

[yanndick]

In Fantasy and animation, every animal is real... :-)

[jaaxxor]

lol nice come bac

[yanndick]

Thanks ! ;-)

[clock424]

Amazing video! The four elements are wind,water,fire and earth.

[JoraRain]

loved it very very well done.

[armoniamg59]

love it

[jdstorms]

very well done! i liked it.

[Jespovich]

Firefox! :D

[TeleShaman]

very very nice!!!

[rubius0]

Very nice. Well done. I especially like the way the dragonfly wiggled its wings into existence.

Simple but elegant.

[raeeees]

thats was an awesome short...

[NinLor]

Very nice.. and very interesting for such a short clip =)

[RishavR]

Very aesthetically pleasing

Well Done.

[RishavR]

oops

[raeeees]

lol

[RishavR]

Very aesthetically pleasing

Well done