Robot Carnival "Franken's Gears"
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- čas přidán 16. 01. 2007
- This's one of the shorts that I'm not too fond of. It always leaves me feeling depressed and it takes nine minutes to tell the moral. One thing I like about it though is the cartoony sounds he makes as he's running around and breaking stuff ... I'm easily amused. ^_^
"We're building a wall of technology around us. One day, it'll get so tall that it'll all come crashing down." - Krátké a kreslené filmy
This one is accually my favorite. The scientist Losses his lifes work, then suddenly gets everything he ever wanted, his creation to be alive. It works perfectly, learns what he does, and when he falls, it just does what his creater told him to do.
This was my favorite of all the shorts on Robot Carnival. It reminded me of the fact that sometimes when nothing else would grant you the ability to exist, you fight and you live against all odds. I can't describe how beautiful this work of art was for me. You have to have seen it when you were young, and knew that it could only be seen that once. The memory takes on a life of it's own because it chooses to.
I remember seeing this on the Sci-fi channel (back when they had decent content) as a child and not really getting it until later in life.
The song sounds like "Zeal Island" from Chrono Trigger. Does anyone agree? The notes are slightly similar.
It's interesting how the moment of a birth of new life was represented with gravity no longer existing just the excitement for the scientist that the supposed amount of time he's spent on the robot, to finally have it succeed and ultimately be his undoing. Its about the lives of creative people, or I think so.
My God, look at that detail. Robot Carnival is one of my favorite animated films ever created.
@Forysan I love the mechanical detail. It seems so much more believable than what I had seen in animations from other countries. It looks like it could have been drawn using a straight edge and square or even computer aided design tool just like engineering schematics. Most American animations that I have seen seem to simply suggest the prescence of machines instead of highlighting a machine's precision based nature. I think engineering (particularly mechanical) must be reeeeeally big in Japan.
Friend, From Brazil, I have to thank you for Uploading this...!
Awesome!
I don't think it breaks down, I think it's just imitating him and falls because the scientist falls. You could say he put too much of himself into his work.
Also, at 1:06, I think it's odd he has that skeleton in the foreground. It's something a biologist would own, but this guy's clearly a more mechanical type. Maybe the filmmaker made it a skeleton (instead of a living pet) to symbolize that the scientist doesn't care enough about nature and thinks the world revolves around him.
This segment was featured in Disney's "Blank Check" (1994).
The music in this sounds like that one theme from Chrono Trigger
@gomgeya
very much agree, and the robot too kinda reminds me of robo from trigger
Hi Thanks for the moral. I didn't see that way. It's the best animation I've seen, lots of details and the best cinematography by far (cool use of light and shadows). It trumps the digital enhanced animes - I guess coming from the animator of Akira, it's a preview.
need robot carnival on DVD so very badly..
My understanding is that this is a re-telling of the classic Frankstein tale.
hence the title, Franken's Gears"
loved it
@Losemyillusions I liked Magnetic Rose too but Cannon Fodder was my favorite. Stink Bomb was pretty funny.
Haha, Now that you mention it, it does remind me of the same thing. Just with less cartridge blowing...
I like your interpretation about technology crashing down around us as being the moral... I always thought it had something to do with us trying to create new life, bioengineering and creating AI and having it end up destroying us, its makers.
Now for those Americans who remember old Disney movies from the 90s, this video was on in the background at one part, can anyone guess?
Blank Check!
The intro reminds me of Naussica.
I was hoping you had the one with "doll" the man created. As creepy as it is, it's so indicative of the fantasy we all seek.
this one to me shows the mistakes one can make when blinded by their own creation.
A takashi nakamura class
Really, really creepy. I liked the music though.
Steamgunk brought me here.
Do you people know of any other experimental studio colaborations like this one?
Have a look on " Memories " and " Mani Mani ' …same kind of experimental anime, directed by the like of Otomo, Rin taro and so on ….
Genius Party
Ani*Kuri 15
The Animatrix
ok, my understanding of what is going on:
Dude is making a advanced AI that will learn trough interaction, like a human. But he is sort of a wierdo so no body wants to fund his project. And even thou he is a great programmer, he is crap at building robots, which is why it breaks down like this.
i'm a little tiny bit beyound humans so... don't say all! i'm not as pityful as you beings are!
Oh no, it tells a story that you have to take a whole nine minutes to understand instead of just pasting it on the screen at the beginning, and it's dark ... oh no! oh no! At least there are cartoony sounds so the child-minded don't commit suicide :/