The Boy With the Sun Tree Bow

The result of the University of Washington's 2005-2006 Animation Capstone Program.

It's not completely done yet as an original score hasn't been composed for it. What's there is a temp track that I put together when I cut the final edit of the film.

The story is based on a story by Gerald Hausman and read by Stewart Stern.

As you may see in the credits, there were a lot of people involved in this production.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Maya
• 3D
• computer
• animation
• short
• filmmaking
• poem
• myth
• pixar
• fountain
• CG
• CGI
• Lost
• Giancchino
• Jon
• Brion
• Brian
• Eno
• Ending

[kookycarrot]

Very beautiful. I guess it may be an allegory of how in destroying the planet humans will end up destroying themselves.

[berrberry]

wow thats so sad

[bluesrunthegame]

The "cycle of time" does not "come back round again" in this short. The world is lost by man's arrogance, the epilogue merely reiterates the of enormity that privation.

[Plissken07]

When the boy shoots the arrow and everything starts to disappear, it seems a little bit scary...hopeless. However, when the cycle of time comes back round again, everything is anew and I felt a sense of peace.

Great short.

[Plissken07]

Also, in Native American literature 'cycles' of time, life, the universe is common.

[somehopesnoregrets]

Not necessarily. It could also be a metaphor for spiritual growth and the dissolution about certainty experienced in meditation and/or mystical experience. Remember, the axe the boy used to fell the trees was "two-edged."

[donexg23]

That was a very good short... i like it...

[AlaskaRobotics]

Hooray for Stewart Stern!!

[orangedeath1]

Wow...that kids an idiot

[metroidcrusher]

Mesmerizing. Amazing, I can't describe what I felt from watching this video. It was perfect in my eyes. The music fit perfectly, the animation was artistic beauty and the reading was amazing. If i could, I would rate it higher than 5 stars... simply amazing.