Animade’s Tend, a short animation about a dad and his child, and the reality

Father’s Day is just around the corner. London-based animation studio Animade has released a captivating animation Tend, telling the story of a dad and his daughter and how their relationship is threatened. As the story unfolds, it makes us wonder if we all have been distracted by our surroundings from what really matters to us.

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The animation centres around a father and a daughter who live in the wilderness, where they spend quality time together and spend their days cutting firewood and building a wood fire.  As the father becomes obsessed with the fire he keeps burning for his daughter, he loses sight of what matters to him most – his daughter. He is too busy keeping the fire burning, that he totally neglects what his daughter really needs without knowing that the ‘fire’ has already replaced his daughter’s place in his heart.

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Can the two turn back the clock and create beautiful memories again after what happened? I will leave it to you to find out the ending.

The 8-minute animation doesn’t contain any dialogues or any over-amped music. The animation relies on the ‘acting’ of the main characters and the scenery to tell the story and to draw the audience’s attention. To go with the parental theme and to engage audience of all ages, the illustration style of the film resembles a child’s book where the characters and the scenery are constructed from geometric shapes, e.g. circle and triangle, contributing to simple but intriguing visual content. Such illustration style works wonder to visualise natural environments in the film, e.g. the triangular shaped trees, mountains and clouds.

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Colour tones of the woodfire, sky, light and shadow, are also played into the animation to highlight the emotional changes of the characters and to create different atmospheres, making the audience emotionally engaged. These beautifully-weaved arrangements help amplify the emotion associated with the animation, as well as capture our hearts and make us think.

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Are you lured away by the ‘fire’ in your life? Let’s not let the ‘fire’ taking over our lives and start going after what really matters to us.

Last but not least, Happy Father’s Days to all the fathers or fathers-to-be!

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https://animade.tv/

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