Spring Animation ( lost sky - where we started )
Channel: Carryot
Date: 2023-07-21

Spring is a 2019 animated fantasy short film written and directed by Andreas Goralczyk and produced by Ton Roosendaal and Francesco Siddi. It is the Blender Institute's 12th "open movie", and was made utilizing the open-source software, Blender. The film is about a young shepherd and her dog confronting ancient spirits in order to bring about the change of seasons. The film was funded by the Blender Foundation, with donations from the Blender community. The film and any material made in the studio was released under a Creative Commons License.[1]

On April 4, 2019, the film was first released on YouTube. As of December 2020, it had over 7 million views.

                                                          {Plot}

[Spring, full movie]

High above the clouds, young shepherdess Spring descends into the frozen forest below. The atmosphere is dark and misty, in direct contrast with the sunny springtime weather above; the clouds causing this surround the heads of ancient spirits that have been freezing the forest, who take the form of anthropomorphic creatures bearing four tree-legs. She calls them by banging on a large rock with a wooden staff. She pays respect to the Alpha, the one that lowers its head from the clouds. It strikes its antennae against Spring's staff to play music, and she, in turn, finishes the melody. The creature sheds one of its musical antenna parts (a chime), which she plugs into the eye of her staff to activate it a glowing red color. With the power she now has, the other spirits awaken and begin moving towards her.

However, a tree gets knocked to the ground by one of the creature, knocking the staff and throwing the chime afar, upsetting the creatures who chase after it. Just as the chime is about to be stepped on, Spring grabs it and reattaches it to her staff. She immediately regains control of the spirits, using her staff with the glowing red chime to direct the creature away from her. Turning around, the creatures are herded like sheep up out of the clouded valley, causing the clouds to disperse and healing the land from its deep freeze. Flora blooms, and ices melt.

Numerous chain-strings cascade from the top of a rock wall, with the chimes of years past lodged, alternating perpendicularly, into each chink of the chain. Spring sticks the newest chime into the first available slot