Wallace & Gromit . Creature Comforts . Chicken Run . Shaun the Sheep . Aardman ’s catalog of animated works is fill with wonderful fatuity that can tug at your heartstrings and , more often than not , tempt you into a chuckle or six . Its latest is a brusk , complete , plain mighty to the gut — and it needs to be .
Released in collaboration with Greenpeace , Aardman Animation ’s Turtle Journey , directed by Gavin Strange , is brief but just implausibly vicious . Evocative of the studio ’ Creature Comforts — which consume interviews from the worldwide public and then brought them to invigorate life as the preponderance of fauna and pets — the short follows a small family of sea turtles as they make their journey home from a trip to see some relatives .
It ’s done in the style of a family roadtrip , from roadwork hold to last - arcminute scenic route trace , game of I - undercover agent and irritating minuscule sib pin in a sea - bound elevator car for too long .
It’s not all fun and car ride games.Image: Aardman Animation/Greenpeace
But then you see the reasons for all the delays and route changes dawdle in the background slowly build up . The short becomes laced with a tenseness that is released in a moment that is just completely and absolutely crushing , and perhaps the closest an Aardman product has come to literal repugnance . It ’s just … well , watch it for yourself .
https://gizmodo.com/the-lawless-high-seas-may-soon-gain-protections-under-a-1837382675
The starkness is not without merit , and asPolygonnotes , it has a campaign beyond just shockingly reminding you of the capital cost we enable with ocean pollution . The short is attached to a petition for U.S. audiences to reach out to Evan Bloom , the U.S. State Department Director of Ocean and Polar Affairs , to agree to natural action on the United Nation ’s plans for an intragovernmentalGlobal Ocean Treaty . give-and-take are set to take place March 23 , and if you like to signalise Greenpeace ’s call to action , you cando so here .
For more , make certain you ’re follow us on our Instagram @io9dotcom .
mood changeGreenpeacePollutionShort Films
Daily Newsletter
Get the best tech , skill , and civilisation news in your inbox day by day .
tidings from the future tense , delivered to your present tense .
You May Also Like
