Canvas

9 minutes and it made me shed as many tears. It was hauntingly beautiful. I particularly loved the attention to detail in regards to the hair texture.

This animated short really found ways to be effective with foreshadowings and flashbacks. I found the flashbacks to be really effective and they added so much to the present with its non-dialogue storytelling. In conclusion, this was a really good animated short that was heartfelt while being sad. There are some comparisons here to Up (2009, Pixar), and they both managed to be heartfelt. The cg animation worked, and the hand-drawn animation in the flashbacks to portray fadedness. I also found the shots to fit the title of the short, where they look like paintings. It's a short about finding your imagination after recovering from trauma.

Canvas has no dialogues; it simply doesn't need any. Like love, hope, family, memories, heartbreak, loneliness & inspiration - need no words, they are to be felt, and so does Canvas by Frank Abney. A celebration of human emotions. A heartwarming short film on Netflix.

That is honestly the only word I can use to describe my feelings when watching the film. It was fine. I was excited after Netflix hit it out of the park with If Anything Happens I Love You (2020) but this was just so fine. It didn't stand out against other shorts for me.

I really wanted it to tear my heart out and stamp on it but I watched it pretty stone faced. It looked fine and you could follow the story so it had that going for it.

I think the score let it down. It was the worst part for me. It didn't really sell any of the emotions and that is a very important part of a movie with no dialogue. It seemed indifferent to what was happening on the screen and seemed to just be doing its own thing.

So you could watch it and support people making shorts but I was really hoping for more.

Watched this after seeing a recommendation on Twitter. Haven't seen any advertisements for it. The movie has no dialogue but the it doesn't need words. Everything is acted out and it's a beautiful, tender bittersweet storyline. The artwork is gorgeous, realistic, even down to the freckles on Granddad's cheek. 9 minutes of pure delight. I really hope more people view it.