Name that short animation with a grandparent who becomes a space whale
July 15, 2018 3:49 AM Subscribe
Please help me identify this short animation from far too little information! In it, a child and their frail (grand-)parent are walking together, until the grandparent says goodbye and casts themself into a pit. We follow the grandparent in freefall down the (impossibly deep) pit as some changes happen to them, including being wrapped in bandages like a mummy. At the end of this long metamorphosis sequence the grandparent is reborn as a flying/swimming space-whale type creature who, possibly with a wave from the grandchild, makes its way out into the universe.
I think I saw it on British TV about 20 years ago. It was hand-drawn, not CGI, fairly abstract and colourful in style and, I'm pretty sure, had music but no speech. I'm not sure if it's a short, a music video, or part of a longer film. Or maybe I just ate too much cheese one evening.
I think I saw it on British TV about 20 years ago. It was hand-drawn, not CGI, fairly abstract and colourful in style and, I'm pretty sure, had music but no speech. I'm not sure if it's a short, a music video, or part of a longer film. Or maybe I just ate too much cheese one evening.
Response by poster: Skywhales!
Yes, thank you so much, moonmilk!
posted by metaBugs at 10:45 AM on July 16, 2018
Yes, thank you so much, moonmilk!
posted by metaBugs at 10:45 AM on July 16, 2018
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posted by moonmilk at 4:31 AM on July 15, 2018 [10 favorites]