(courtesy YouTube (c) BYU’s Center for Animation – Student Films)
SNAPSHOT
After discovering a baby kraken aboard their ship, two bumbling pirates try to kill it. But as their incompetent attempts escalate, they only throw themselves further into disaster. [Stowaway is] an award-winning short animated film created by quarantined students during a world-wide pandemic. This was created by the talented BYU Animation Class of 2021, and supported by Brigham Young University’s colleges of Fine Arts and of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. (courtesy BYU’s Center for Animation – Student Films YouTube Channel)
Stowaway is a DELIGHT.
A sage tale about not overreacting to your fears, it employs a masterfully clever blend of slapstick, flawed humanity and laugh-out-loud hilarity to tell the tale of two pirates who end destroying themselves far more completely than any kraken lore could ever do.
The kraken baby is charming and knowingly funny, the pirates are klutzy idiots and the story that’s told in just under five minutes is right there with Looney Tunes at its inspired best; you could even Bugs and Daffy in the adversarial roles.
Watch this charming piece of short-form animation and laugh and laugh and laugh … though if you’re a seagull, you may not be quite as enamoured …