Descendants Short Film
Short Film Exploration: Descendants
The name of the short film is Descendants. It was created by Helko van der Scherm who was in charge of the script and Holger Schoenberger who was responsible for all the technical aspects. Scherm started working on the initial script in 2005 and it took a total of 3 years to get to the finished product.
A quick summary of Descendants is that the film is about two flowers growing at the edge of a field. One is older and has a bleak outlook on life, while the other is young and full of hope still. The whole message of the short is that something good can come out of something bad. The entire film is rendered in 3D. The flowers themselves have quite a bit of detail, and even have faces placed toward the base of the flower petals, near where the petals meet the stem. Although it is only 14 minutes long, each flower shows a distinctive personality, and for some flowers like the older red one, a history that is never told.
The making of Descendants
A website where you can find information about the making of the film, including how the characters went from hand drawn 2D characters to 3D characters while retaining the same “feel” the hand drawn versions portray.
Talking about the Script
Helko van der Scherm talks about the script for Descendants and some of the meaning behind some of the actions characters take, and explaining how some things happened.
For the 3D modeling, they used XSI 5.11. Scherm says that they had to “translate” each 2D drawing they did into 3D, but not by scanning, but by recreating the image 3D to get the same feel the 2D version had. So really, they created the characters and scenes twice in some cases.
I think Scherm was trying to get at the idea that “Descendants” can mean a lot of things, and descendants can be obtained by both good and bad things. Even though both flowers and the deer died, the deer enabled the seeds of the white flower to grow and produce a whole new family of flowers.
I really liked the film. It had a fairly simple message, but every time I watch it I catch something new; little things the characters say or do. It stood out to me originally because Woopi Goldberg voiced one of the flowers, but as I watched it I felt like it stood out because it made you wonder about the characters. You wondered what happened to the red flower that made her so bitter until you find out why. Then you wonder what the motive of the red flower is to “help” the white flower attract the deer. It keeps you wondering until the very end, and even then the end lets you reflect on what happened and explore why.
Descendants Film
The name of the short film is Descendants. It was created by Helko van der Scherm who was in charge of the script and Holger Schoenberger who was responsible for all the technical aspects. Scherm started working on the initial script in 2005 and it took a total of 3 years to get to the finished product.
A quick summary of Descendants is that the film is about two flowers growing at the edge of a field. One is older and has a bleak outlook on life, while the other is young and full of hope still. The whole message of the short is that something good can come out of something bad. The entire film is rendered in 3D. The flowers themselves have quite a bit of detail, and even have faces placed toward the base of the flower petals, near where the petals meet the stem. Although it is only 14 minutes long, each flower shows a distinctive personality, and for some flowers like the older red one, a history that is never told.
The making of Descendants
A website where you can find information about the making of the film, including how the characters went from hand drawn 2D characters to 3D characters while retaining the same “feel” the hand drawn versions portray.
Talking about the Script
Helko van der Scherm talks about the script for Descendants and some of the meaning behind some of the actions characters take, and explaining how some things happened.
For the 3D modeling, they used XSI 5.11. Scherm says that they had to “translate” each 2D drawing they did into 3D, but not by scanning, but by recreating the image 3D to get the same feel the 2D version had. So really, they created the characters and scenes twice in some cases.
I think Scherm was trying to get at the idea that “Descendants” can mean a lot of things, and descendants can be obtained by both good and bad things. Even though both flowers and the deer died, the deer enabled the seeds of the white flower to grow and produce a whole new family of flowers.
I really liked the film. It had a fairly simple message, but every time I watch it I catch something new; little things the characters say or do. It stood out to me originally because Woopi Goldberg voiced one of the flowers, but as I watched it I felt like it stood out because it made you wonder about the characters. You wondered what happened to the red flower that made her so bitter until you find out why. Then you wonder what the motive of the red flower is to “help” the white flower attract the deer. It keeps you wondering until the very end, and even then the end lets you reflect on what happened and explore why.
Descendants Film
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