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Bill. We see Bill’s life in a series of anecdotes that are beautifully illustrated in multiple split-screen windows. While the character animation on its own is rather simple, it becomes eerily graceful when combined with the split-screen and incamera effects. The shorts follow Bill’s mundane life and gradual mental deterioration caused by an unnamed, possibly fatal disorder. It is heartbreaking and painfully sincere and all achieved with "Few films can switch goddamn stick figures. Few films can between bizarre, laugh switch between bizarre, laugh out loud out loud humour and humour and crushing, blunt honesty so crushing, blunt honesty effortlessly. Let me assure you: it’s not only so effortlessly." the best animated film of last year, but one It’s Such A Beautiful Day is his first of the best films of last year period. Massive feature film, comprised of three shorts that hyperbole review sum up: it’s the human center on a stick-figure protagonist named condition in animated form.
too big,” “I am a banana,” and “My anus is bleeding,” Rejected is a Certified (caps) Internet classic. What many of its fans may not know is that Hertzfeldt is a prolific animator who has released many other amazing shorts over the years. Hertzfeldt is a consummate auteur: he writes, animates and photographs all of his films by himself, controlling the entire creative process from the very beginning.