The Project:
Shelter was a collaborative piece from an American music producer, a French Music Producer, Japanese animators, and distributed by CrunchyRoll. This was made as a music video for Porter Robinson and Madeon's song "
Shelter", which was released on August 11th, 2016. It was then announced that both the producers had been working for over a year to create a music video with a story and plot to accompany the music. So it was released on October 18th of the same year to large success, as the deep, emotional story connected with the music as if both were made for each other. The hand-drawn animation looks beautiful, as the backgrounds and environments created are gorgeous and inviting.
The Story:
The story follows a 17 year old girl (named Rin in the description) who lives alone in a simulated reality, which she controls by drawing on a tablet to shift the reality on what she wants. She then discovers scenes that she didn't make and discovers (through flashbacks, newspaper articles, and past memories) she was once a child in Tokyo who lived with her father. But Earth was about to be in collision with an object the size of the moon. So her father, while still being loving towards her, built her a ship with life-support system for Rin to escape the doomed Earth. So she has been in space for the past 7 years, waiting for someone to make contact with her. At the end, a message comes up as Rin vows to make her father's sacrifice worth it.
My Thoughts:
I honestly love the animation to bits, as it was gorgeous to follow the story. I would want to apply the interactions of the environments to my own work, as it looked fluid and clean to me. I believe the shifting backgrounds and different angles for camera shots are applied well to this piece (which I've done before). The creators did well to have an animation serve the story and song justice so it was explained well, but they could improve upon maybe the ending. The ending was a bit confusing and left up to interpretation on how Rin will handle the message received at the end. But overall, I loved it. It was so beautiful and nearly had me in tears at the end of it. I recommend anyone to watch the differences between American and Japanese animation, as well of the power of collaboration between all these different people.
The story follows a 17 year old girl (named Rin in the description) who lives alone in a simulated reality, which she controls by drawing on a tablet to shift the reality on what she wants. She then discovers scenes that she didn't make and discovers (through flashbacks, newspaper articles, and past memories) she was once a child in Tokyo who lived with her father. But Earth was about to be in collision with an object the size of the moon. So her father, while still being loving towards her, built her a ship with life-support system for Rin to escape the doomed Earth. So she has been in space for the past 7 years, waiting for someone to make contact with her. At the end, a message comes up as Rin vows to make her father's sacrifice worth it.
I honestly love the animation to bits, as it was gorgeous to follow the story. I would want to apply the interactions of the environments to my own work, as it looked fluid and clean to me. I believe the shifting backgrounds and different angles for camera shots are applied well to this piece (which I've done before). The creators did well to have an animation serve the story and song justice so it was explained well, but they could improve upon maybe the ending. The ending was a bit confusing and left up to interpretation on how Rin will handle the message received at the end. But overall, I loved it. It was so beautiful and nearly had me in tears at the end of it. I recommend anyone to watch the differences between American and Japanese animation, as well of the power of collaboration between all these different people.
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