BUTTERFLIES | Omeleto
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2021
- A struggling artist is offered a paid job. But it threatens to kill her imagination.
BUTTERFLIES is used with permission from Isabel Peppard. Learn more at tbcmedia.com.au.
A young talented artist named Claire struggles to make a living, sitting on the sidewalk and making drawings for passersby. Since childhood, she's been gifted with creativity and talent. But she lives in a world and comes from a family that fails to make much room for it.
One day as she's drawing on the street, a businessman recognizes her gift and offers her a job as an illustrator in a greeting card factory. She goes to work, but soon discovers that the relentless grind deadens her imagination. Forced to fight for her talent, she must pull herself out of a trap that gets increasingly difficult with each effort she makes to defy it.
Textured, richly imagined and with an almost Dickensian sense of character and storytelling, this dark but captivating short animation -- directed by Isabel Peppard from a script she co-wrote with producer Warwick Burton -- offers a fable of creativity, imagination and freedom. Almost steampunk in its hints of Victoriana, the grit and grime of the visuals capture the squalor of poverty and the grind of work, both of which the young heroine must navigate in her quest to find self-expression.
The 3-D stop-motion and puppet animation are doll-like, but it eschews the cute and charming for the macabre, eccentric and peculiar. Its world-building is highly evocative and the visuals have an eccentricity that would appeal to fans of Tim Burton, but the writing and storytelling have the classicism of a fairy tale, with emotional clarity and evenness in the pacing. Though the creative flourishes of Claire's art -- and the film itself -- verge on the surreal, there's still a spirit of gentle innocence at the heart of the tale that's highly approachable and relatable.
Like many heroines in fairy tales, Claire -- who is voiced beautifully by Academy Award-nominated actor Rachel Griffiths -- finds herself in a difficult bind and must rely on her wits and strength to get herself out. Before that can happen, though, she must learn to believe in herself and remind herself of her inner truth and light. In doing so, she gains a power that propels her into an action-packed climax that has her fighting for her freedom and liberation.
BUTTERFLIES is a fantastical, dark and bewitching storytelling experience, and its striking visuals offer an emotional and instinctive way of experiencing the narrative. But despite its otherworldly look and feel, it also speaks to the ordinary existential horror of dimming our light in a life of obligation and conformity. Most of us strive for a life full of meaning and purpose, but life often pulls us away from our paths. While dreams may not be fulfilled in the way we expect, losing sight of them can create a dull, even hopeless existence. Part of the work of adulthood is learning to nurture these colorful, fragile dreams, and realize it may be enough to have them in the first place. - Фільми й анімація
I'm an oil painter, I produce large canvases prepped in the with sizes and gessos I make myself from 15thC methods; most of my pieces are years in the making. I have insomnia and have to get up in the morning to go to my minimum pay job, scrubbing floors and wiping backsides. I have hardly any food, $3.45 in the bank, and probably will be evicted soon. I'm also not very well; this is my life. Sometimes it's only the unfinished painting on my easel that keeps me going. I'm in the autumn of my life, I'm tired in my body and soul and just want to create. It's good to see this and be reminded that I am not alone.
You are not alone, my friend.
Same. Am a artist homless and alone yet still i try daily
I'm a student for the time being yet idk what to do or become afterwArds I'm afraid daily of my future
@@victoriamartinez8288 just breath. You will be all right. Dont over think just do
Most artists are grossly misunderstood through their life time.
Because they don't self market. If a tree falls in the woods...
@@GoatOfTheWoods oof you def missed the mark with that comment. This story is allegorical
for my art experience i never give up
@@GoatOfTheWoods don't see how that relates to the original comment but... that is a very true statement. As an artist you feel this strange, uncomfortable feeling in your gut when it comes to marketing yourself. Cause that's exactly what you're doing... selling a part of yourself.
@@ClarkyWarky i took " misunderstood" as "unsuccessful" , because in my eyes that is mostly related ( except for Cobain, and others ) As an artist, it took some time to surpass the fear of self marketing, but after doing that, i felt i actually surpassed a mountain of self doubt, and everything kinda fell in place . If you have stuff to show, show it, there is public for everyone, no matter how weird or jolly your art is
Nice touch, she's left handed in the train station and right handed at the card factory.
I can relate to her as a child.
Life is soul crushing at times, isn't it?
HAHAHA!!!! Yeah, I wasn't very sure what that was when I was young, I just used whichever hand I felt comfortable with for the task I was faced with. I thought that was how everyone else was as well, of course that was NOT the case!!! After being yelled at by everyone in my life, telling me that I can't do it that way, eventually I caved and started to believe them. So I suppose that I'm a right handed person, but I still do nearly half of everything with the left, since I write with the right side, that's what the world has labeled me as......😞
@@jeffffro7674 Which is really how it could be.
I don't think we need to conform, or be forced to choose, but there it is.
Everything from a pair of scissors to a deck of cards is made right handed.
I can't tell you how many rulers Sister Anne broke over my knuckles, and I'm still _"sinister"!_
This speaks volumes on our society/ system.... I’m an artist and a lefty, therefore I’m the outsider and always will be. Was told so many times, ‘that’s not a career or a real job’ I’m still painting/ breaking the ‘norm’
@@adventsoul Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Great observation
Glad this popped up on my recommended play list. Life gets busy, kids need rides, wife wants money, house needs repairs, parents want to visit, the boss needs more hours, and various other things....but for the next 30 min I will watch this eye-opening introspective channel
Family should never be looked upon as regret for it is a natural occurrence and the order of things for existence to exist. The foreign element are jobs in bills that take the checks that the jobs pay you. A Non-Stop cycle all the way to the grave that you leave to your children. The schools that you are forced to place your children in, and threaten jail-time for not complying -- only solidifies -- their enslavement to the system of servitude. Money is the root to their evil... You take away their money and you take away their power to do evil... Never look at your family as a curse, it is the slave owner disguised as the boss that does the devil Bidding. The curse is not the children but what the world have done to make you take care of them is the curse... In my world everything will be free and we will live like ants one big happy family. The way the world should be. Where all life lives in comfort and not just the few...
I feel like she could have been happy at that job if only she was able to express herself and was given a supportive and nurturing environment.
Welcome to the commercial arts!
So not at that job then
A day in the life of a starving artist, impacted by the butterfly effect...
Don't you mean the vampire bat effect? LOL
@@TheAstroflight exactly
This is an amazing stop-motion film, both technique-wise and story-wise. I know how it can be difficult to live by just expressing one's artistic ideas. But I hope there will be a world in the future where artists can freely voice their ideas and opinions, without worrying about money. Not just artists, but everyone. I think it'll be possible with Basic Income.
Top notch soundtrack as well. Propers to the musicians!
Their God that gave them the power to enslave the world must be killed and money will be taken out of the equation. The whole world will be able to truly live... When we are working to live we are not truly living but working our God given life away for those who are truly living. In their god they trust keeping us enslaved for material possessions and the essentials of life.
I used to dream to become an artist when I was a kid but now, Idk.
I love this animation, its kinda relatable
I wanted to be van gough.its wierd .
@@anyatranter3984 I'm hoping you never got as twisted in the head as that man was!!!! An easy way to tell is to do a quick ear check......there should be TWO OF THEM!!!!!
Its never to late to fulfill your dream
Amazing! 12 min ride of emotions. Concisely conveying a message or points within a message takes talent and sharp intellect. An admirable skill.
I'm in tears.
@@anyatranter3984 Yes. Simply and powerfully touching.
I can only bring up four words pertaining to this short: Factory of Lost Dreams. Luckily, the protagonist frees herself from that insidious hellhole. Kudos to the crew for such a dreary yet remarkable interpretation.
Sincerely, an animation enthusiast/small Black artist from Chicago 🖤
PLEASE. I. NEED. A. SECOND. PART. PLEASE.
PLEASE
P L E A S E !
I beg you.
you. are. the. second. part. You. Make. it. work. for. you... or. you. don't.
"Leaf By Niggle" by J.R.R. Tolkien tells a similar story, but "Butterflies" is different with its theme of self-determination.
She could not access the Door of Light until she went through the factory. There was no way to reach it from the train station. As drab as the place was, there was shelter, routine, discipline, and even time to draw. She stayed for a year and she made her choice to leave. The supervisor was not the devil. He never denigrated her art or blocked her way to the door but gave her the choice to get up from the floor at the train station and to literally get back on her feet.
At first I thought the style was kind of creepy and I almost clicked off but I'm really glad I didnt because I really enjoyed this
Same here 🙋🏻♀️🤭
The story is good, but the drawing is horrible. Everything looks scary and creepy. Especially the "butterfly", kinda looks like a vampire bat!
All that is on purpose. This may be a tale of hope, but it definitely isn't easy or pleasant for most of the film. I believe the style reflects that.
@@catherinejustcatherine1778 Yeah, probably that's the meaning of the weird style.
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833
If I see something pretty out there, I can reference it for you, but I don't think I can literally share a link (either I or my phone may not be "smart" enough. )
"Vampires don't exist, dummy!"
*shocked Pikachu meme face*
Brought a tear to my eyes. Quit a science managerial job to take my “hobby-carved art” as a full time position. My mother insisted I take her to an airport, last minute. I could but had told her I wished she could have given me a couple days notice. Her response, “why, your brothers have jobs, you don’t.” Decades ago...still feel the jab. Still carving, but a lot of production art. One does have to pay the bills.
I never really knew what i wanted to be when i was younger it always set my mind a blank because i didn't really think that i was capable of anything. When there was something i admired i always wanted to be said thing but never could cause i thought it was unrealistic. I wanted to be a singer a writer a actress a fashion designer an animator etc. But i had to set those dreams aside cause i could never live up to them. But i never stopped drawing. Through out my childhood i was always drawing and creating and i never considered myself an artist till i got older and saw potential in my skill. I never made any money from my art but that doesn't really matter since i was just doing it for fun and not for notoriety. If i did sell my art it wouldn't make as much anyway. I just loved the process of it and creating my own world with my drawings. It was escapism from all the venom and rottenness of the world. It was my peace from the chaos. Maybe my dreams of being a full time artist will never come true but that doesn't matter to me because i already found what i was ment to do and passionate about.
Am I your mirror image??........this can't be true. I am exactly what you said. One to the point.
Whenever I see something new being worked on with passion. I want to live it too. I wanted to be a singer, an anchor, a reporter, a writer..... but because I knew these were all just a part of growing hallucinations. I gave up on them. But, art? I have been drawing like since the day I held a pencil. And never have I ever given up the idea to lose my art. I seem to live fr it.
I have watched 50 different short films on this channel and I am so impressed how perfect they all are, the detail, the underpinnings, the depth, I'm blown away, straight addicted, I've always dreamed of being able to make short films now I work at walmart but these have given me hope that one day I will make short films too.
Angelina Jolie is amazing in this!
What a wonderful production. I can't believe this was only twelve minutes long...it covered so much in so little time. Well done!
A reminder that passion is not just something we want, rather it is something we live for. Thanks for this awesome animation!
This made me sad. Doing what you love for a living SHOULD be anyone's dream. It's hard making a living with creative endeavors, and only the brave ones try. But work really hard for long enough, want it bad enough, and you *can* make it happen. Here's to achieving your dreams.
Beautiful!!! I loved the story and characters. Congratulations to everyone who worked in the making of this movie. I specially liked the eyes and expressions of the main character and the "butterflies".
Creativity is many things, but it is rarely structured. You can't express yourself when forced into a mold. She was so easy to hurt when she was young, but at least she never gave up on being an artist. That last ouch of her creative essence, her last butterfly, was hurt in the end but never died. Hope the other girls can salvage their loves at some point. And no, rigid employment almost never helps the imagination or creativity of an artist grow. Being free will be hard, but losing your dreams is so much harder. Great video.
"Oh I'll just get a day job and make art in my spare time". Yep I felt that.
Whoever created this is truly an artist!!!
OMG this SO speaks to me!! THANK YOU!! 🦋
This is amazing. Never stop creating Isabel.
o god i just started my job as a graphic designer for a multinational corporation and this pops up in my notifications
HAHAHAHA!!!! DAMN!!!! It's straight CREEPY sometimes how things happen like that, isn't it?!?!
May I ask what corporation?
I found the animations very intruiging. Thank you for putting out these short films🙏🏽
Is that supposed to be Angelina Jolie..?
I had a feeling that would happen, I couldn’t believe it but when it did then it only confirmed my suspicion of what it was I had thought, just goes to show you that you can’t take candy from a stranger and never count your chickens before they are hatched and it’s never over until you hear the fat lady sing, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and money never grows on trees, the squeaky wheel gets the oil and if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?
“Once upon a time, I had a lot of different dreams”
I felt that.
I'm a painter & struggled with money during & after my studies, so I painted for a gallery that commercialized my style, but not my name. In those ten years I had very few exhibitions of my original work.
This whole thing held me back.
I can totally relate to this film.
I felt like working in a painting- factory.
It put me off painting for a while & then I did something else, where I was my own boss.
This made me have a creepy ass dream. I was made of clay and my skin melted off.
as good and as original as anything both Aardman and Laika have produced. you ought to be quite proud of this.
Spinningly creative...you have an extraordinary imagination! Supercool that you are following your own artistic dreams and producing such amazing work! I hope you can team up with someone like Guillermo del Toro and can continue telling artistically intricate stories like this, on a bigger scale. Cheers!
Friends at work, that tickles
always go for your dreams, yes it might be a rough ride but atleast you will not feel tired because you'll enjoy doing it.
I feel bad for their guitar, shoes, butterfly, and mine.
This is so heartwarming and sweet. I love it
Wonderfully grotesque animation style and an extremely relatable story, though I'd loved to have seen her colleagues escape the drudgery too.
Kinda what I was thinking as well!!! NO!!!! DON'T LEAVE WITHOUT YOUR ONLY FRIENDS!!!! THEY'RE NOT DEAD YET!!!! AARRRGHHH!!!!!
@@jeffffro7674 It would have been a beautiful ending if we'd seen one of her colleagues tuning up her guitar and the other one trying on her ballet shoes, then escaping the thoroughly depressing factory.
Perhaps that should be a part two - the return.
My girlfriend and I fell in love with the characters in this marvelous film. It was so full of emotions and love and the makers did spend
a lot of time making it full of detail. Looked like the good did win from the bad, just how artists like it.
Judith & Leon
Im glad Isabel Peppard both directed and created the puppets. I would of been quite disheartened is the artist got lost in the mix.
Ironically her always drawing the weird fairy just shows how she lacks creativity and imagination and always draws the same thing XD
That’s exactly the concept of a low volume production. The more time you put on a work, the more you develop details, personalisation and quality. It doesn’t mean you lack creativity and imagination. It means you invest into something to make it better
So relatable... thank you! ❤️
I can relate to this. Nice animation.
The milky honker pigs are going to give me nightmares.
Your profile pic just brought back my nightmares of losing my johnson to a psycho Flea chasing me with giant scissors!!!! AAAHHHHH!!!!
We come back and CUT OFF YOUR JOHNSON!!!! Yeah Lebowski!!!! SNAP!!!!!
Perfect stellar & celestial even!
Great video- great animation makes you forget its animation and begins to feel like real life 👍
You are an imaginative artist, indeed! Thank you, Flutter-bye . . . 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
The sets and scenery in this short film are incredible !
The machinery was well thought out and it's motions were highly imaginative, visually this was an incredible experience !
I'm just sorry that more care wasn't given to the soundtrack before YT's compression managed to mush it all together, maybe it works better on headphones or laptop speakers than a high quality sound system but some of the dialogue was lost in the music.
Headphones made it. The musicianship is righteous. TRY THE HEADPHONES!
I love this keep up the good work.
Aaaand she goes back to the street begging for money AGAIN. Too bad 90% of the artists are not recognized & in the end, they have to deal between having a low paying abusive monotonous job or be what they dreamed of while living in misery. Not fair at all.
Life is never fair is it
I feel like I'm in that position whilst my mates are living my on dreams that I would've been. Now I'm stuck here in a chaotic environment completely voiceless. It's soul-crushing
@@christopherkyledeleon4193 Same. Hugs man.
@@stregahex I rarely been given hugs nor cuddles in my entire life so I appreciate this...thanks :)
I know this feeling.
Creation comes from struggle
Great symbolic art.... Wen we got a job outside our creativity.... Butterflies got trapped and killed silently.....
The head of the factory once dreamed of heading a high-tech company.
WHAT AN AWESOME PRODUCTION AND MESSAGE.
But horrible pictures!
That bat, butterfly creature is hideous.
Great Film!
Thank you very much, great short and Isabel Peppard great arrista
this is an amazing work ! i love it
Real Life situation for artists that work for companies.
i am a struggling artist that desperately wants a job in the art field but can't find one
This was beautiful, but it was not just about beauty, it spoke to my struggle in my life as an a creative person who does uncreative work to pay the bills. it reminds me of the toll that has taken on me.
For me I think it would be worst to have my creativity used in a "job", squeezed, reduced & commoditized.
I am not the kind to want more & more things. I thinks I am happiest when I find meaning & purpose in my creative work.
I have found it such a hard thing to conserve my energy so there is enough left for my creative work, enough to find my way clear of my "Just Over (sometimes under!) Broke" job, that often feels like is sucking the remaining life in me.
I hear you all the way! After years of wandering in the wilderness, I was fortunate enough to get into a paying occupation (computer programming) that sustained my interest and even allowed me to use a bit of creativity. As for my avocation, though it never became a career, nor did I become at all famous, I did manage to give some performances, get a couple of standing ovations, and once, a woman even came backstage and asked for my autograph! For me, that was a reasonably satisfactory resolution of The Plight of the Artist in a Mundane World, but everyone must find their own solution. Not everyone can be a star.
@@rogerryerson1803 Pop life!! Everybody needs a thrill. Pop life! We all got a space to fill. Pop life! Everybody wants to be on top!!! Life it just ain't funky, unless it's got that POP!!!!!
A few words of wisdom from a man who was so damn good at it ALL for quite some time he was known just simply as....THE ARTIST!!!!!! BOOM!!! THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE!!! Just in case anyone is interested in how you can change the world with your artistic ability......
@@jeffffro7674 So the trick is to get enough POP into your life while managing to pay the rent and other bills. I think it was the mystic, Georgy Gurdjieff, who said, "He who would proceed in The Work must learn to make his living with his left foot."
@@rogerryerson1803 I'm now wondering how I've learned about all of what he stood for, over the last 45 years, without knowing he ever was??? I've been trying to make people understand stuff like this my whole life, I just naturally knew that all of what we see, feel and do is there it seems, just to distract us from following our own self, the entire system is built to keep everyone from knowing the deeper truth, matters of great concern should be taken lightly and matters of little concern should be taken very seriously!!
When I was born, my parents were way too busy squabbling between themselves over the most trivial crap, I got overlooked. We managed to leave the hospital without a name on my birth certificate. It wasn't until I was 5 and just a couple days from the 1st day of school when I realized that I needed a name!!!! So I choose my own. To this day, my birth certificate is STILL blank and I don't really know who or what I am. It's disturbing at times and then there are times when it is something very freeing. Just watching a bit about who this man Gurdjieff is, I can't help but feel undeniable parallels in how we both are thinking, so much so that I think I need to change my first name from Jeff TO Gurdjieff!!!!! In fact, I think that's the only name I need, I'm dropping the middle and last, and just going with Gurdjieff, period. I like it. A lot. Thank you sir, you've helped a very lost soul find a little piece of who it is........ Gurdjieff, out!
@@jeffffro7674 Glad I could help! You probably know as much about Gurdjieff as I do now. There was a movie about him, starring Terence Stamp, which I saw back in 1979 (and don't remember much of). I ran across the quote in a book by another mystic, the Russian, Peter Ouspensky. And I just know about him because I had a friend who was very much into things off-the-beaten-path. Anyway, I wish you success in finding other pieces of your "lost soul". And I don't expect to be going anywhere any time soon in case anything else comes up... Roger, out!
I love stop motion films.
How did they get Angelina Jolie to play in this? But seriously, what great characters and visuals. This world is amazing when you just look for it. Creators like this make me wonder how much I am missing and what can I create?
angelina jolie in altered universe
LOL! Cause of the lips? LMAO!
My dad in a nutshell lol
thought this was The Shivering Truth
there is blood in the kitchen
Fantastic, great..
Was this inspired by Don't Hug Me I'm Scared part 3?
i love this
Talent tale or starved empty, great illustration omeleto am always inspired 😍🧡❤😇
When you sell out on your artistic craft...
I really identified with this one x
She looks like angelina jolie
🤣💯
i'm sorry, but why do they look like something you would see in your nightmares?
Main character reminds me a bit like Micheal Jackson 😋
Good Steampunk
this is terrifying
Was the other factory worker a nod to Lucille Ball? Hahaha
Life doesn't have to be a zero sum game unless you make it that way.
Her Lips Look Real 😂
Disturbing and Brilliant
im an artist and
STOP GIVING UP
Very nice.
Pre-Coraline vibes
❤️
Wow... welcome to the mind of an INFP! Lol! Couldn't have asked for a better personality type!! 😃
I can relate
Whats the betting that this was made by a former Disney artist?
Last name is Burton, I'm wondering if Tim has a brother.....
In the words of Maynard Maynard James Keenan "may your dreams slap ho's and lovers."
Great short Movie like 👍
It's stop motion right
This could have been good if not for the demonic butterflies. I loved the story telling.
Creative stop motion mezmorizìng plot
Directed by Warwick Burton...
is he related to Tim Burton?
No. No relation!
ridiculous. It's good to be an artist. it's good to eat. You CAN do both.