Sprite Fright - Blender Open Movie

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“Oh, what a cool Nature movie”
“Oh, it’s about saving the environment”
“Oh, it’s about fungus creatures”
“Oh, it’s about murder “

I just realized that exactly at 1:50 they say that she wouldn't survive five minutes alone, but litreally exactly five minutes later in the animation 6:50, everyone except her died.
The attention to detail is crazy

I love how the teens says "she wouldn't survive five minutes in this woods" and the smurfs start killing them at literal five minutes in the video 💀💀💀

I like how the bird helped Ellie. As a token of his gratitude for being saved by her :).

I love how this story turned from respecting nature to mushroom smurfs committing war crimes within one minute.

The fact that they didn’t kidnap the scout looking girl, only because she treated nature with complete respect

This is what Sausage Party should have been. The perfect blend of cynical humour and the whimsicalness and beauty of animation (with a little bit of horror).

I realise the boombox guy is a bit of an outlier because he hid so we didn’t see how he would have tried to defend himself, but I like that in the chase scenes from 5:10 to 6:00, all the others are very quick to physically attack the creatures (spraying them with hairspray, hitting them with a bat, etc) while Ellie escapes in ways that don’t directly injure them, like choosing to cut herself free by her hair instead of trying to cut one of the sprites, as the others no doubt would have in her position. I think it really shows her character that even in such a situation her first instinct isn’t to see them as the enemy, and then she only attacks them when she’s completely cornered— and even then, she warns them first.

Notice how their deaths were personalized.

The guy who crushed the snail at the beginning died by snails.
Guy pissing on the sprites died by drowning in piss.
Woman spraying spiders died by spiders.
BBQ boy died by fire.

"She wouldn't survive 5 minutes alone in these woods"
*She is the only one who survives*

A person who isnt a fan of horror movies, I would like to say.. I actually liked this one

5:46
That is by far the sharpest pocket knife ever, have any of you EVER tried to cut hair with a knife
That shits a literal dagger

Mushroom Gnome Guy: "You picked the wrong camping spot, bitches!"

Me: Excuse me... what? :D

I love the detail where each of the characters death correlates to how they treated nature

I love how this Short is more horrifying then every horror movie ive seen, plus there was no gore so that makes this more impressive

This is so wholesome. The animation looks beautiful. And Ellie is very cute. Her energy is very sweet

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I like how they were ironically killed by the very thing that they did. The blonde guy with the bat crushed a snail, and later he got crushed (and presumably eaten) by multiple snails. The rainbow-haired girl with the pepper spray attacked and killed a spider and was later suffocated and killed in a spider web. The redhead dude with the lighter fluid started a fire and incinerated a couple butterflies, and was later tied up and burned in a large fire with a bunch of torches by the sprites. The black-haired guy with the boombox urinated on a ladybug, knocking it off of a mushroom, and was later drowned in urine by the sprites. Then there's the main character, who had saved a bird from choking on plastic six-pack rings, was later saved by that very same bird, who attacked the father sprite and allowed her to escape. It's a nice little touch.

Finally an animation that portrays Human-Fae interactions accurately.

The absolute genius of showing how awful what we do to nature is by flipping human destruction back on humans in weird disgusting deaths is so interesting