"MASKS" Exploitation leads to extinction in this Animated Short by Patrick Smith
This animated short tells the story of Masked men who exploit an edible smaller species, while a renegade scientist perfects a cloning process to satisfy the hungry demand, but the clones conceal a destructive secret. It's a story of exploitation, destruction, and eventual revenge and a twisted sort of justice.
Music:
"Death Match" by Bird Creek
"Fun House" by Coyote Hearing
"Roots of Legend" by Density & Time
Winner Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival 2012
Winner Jury Prize Durango Film Festival 2012
Winner ASIFA-East (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation) 2011
Winner Animated Surrealism Award DragonCon Film Festival, 2011
Winner Anima Mundi, Brazil, 2011
Screenings:
2012 Cleveland International Film Festival
2012 Phoenix Film Festival
2012 Durango Film Festival
2012 Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival (Winner!)
2012 San Francisco Independent Film Festival
2011 Charleston International Film Festival
2011 Savannah Film Festival
2011 Santa Cruz Film Festival2011 ASIFA-East (Winner!)
2011 Ellensburg Film Festival 2011 Befilm Film Festival
2011 Annecy Plus Film Festival 2011 Kodak Animation Show
2011 Arizona Film Festival2011 Woodstock Film Festival
2011 Ojai Film Festival2011 Philadelphia Animation Festival
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I love the fact art like this for so many people can draw so many drastically different meanings.
totally. I love that too.
@@PatrickSmithAnimation the mask look like dr gurgula from the game high on life
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You mean that white people?
@royhigginbotham4183probably for censorship or something like that.
"Together we are stronger" i wish the humanity (real life) was cooperative to each other like this masterpiece
To be honest I just wish humanity would pick one, collective or group of individuals. One minute humanity is obsessed with being a collective or "part of something bigger" and the next they're demanding their individuality be respected or something like that, its tiresome to constantly see contradictions like that floating around.
Maybe in a alternate universe
Nah there is not an common objective
That's the thing, humanity is a species full of contradictions and paradoxes.
@@ivanpn6206 Yea bro, you right
5:31 I love that little smile, it’s just shows the happiness and relief and I mean, that’s just a cute lil’ smile in general
2:32
I knowww THEYRE SO ADORABLE
The titan looked like "Man, I had a good life"
He really went for the "three kids in a trenchcoat" trope, didn't he? I loved this either way.
more like 100 kids in a trenchcoat
@Andrew Lindsay aaayi
@@offandsphere6788 more like 499 kids in a trenchcoat
@@offandsphere6788 klny9
@@monkey_5.O more like infinite
The fact that the lab guy was just more tiny people makes it better
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the lab guy WASN'T made of the small dudes working together at first, but he ended up being the first one to get split into the small guys, who then banded together to trick the other giants into falling apart and end the threat once and for all.
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@@OriginalUnjustifier probably
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@@theoguncleslappy9150 Yeah probably
this is 𝓪 great example of how 𝓪 team or large group of "weak" people can defeat the stronger people
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@@SeniorSpaceflight i am sorry it was a weird setting on the phone of my brother which i had to use for a month since mine was broken
@@mostafaal-hasany7172 Oh, okay.
No this is the attack on titan ripoff
Why that A so zesty bro
I don't know whats the lesson in this animation but this guy is so talented
The lesson is, if you are ever being eaten alive by giant masked "men," turn them all into yourself after making profit
The less someone know about you and your identity the powerful you are you can be any character and do anything
@@themintaddict2090 shhhhhhhh
Yeah
At first I thought it had something to do with the corrupt food industry, but when I watched it till the end, I think it had to do with something else.
*Before* People : *running from the giants* *After* Giants : *Running Away From Death*
You dont escape from death.... You already know you die.
Peaple: RUNNN FROM GIANT!!! giant: Y O U W I L L G O D I E
I'm really curious what the beginning part was about. It seemed like the masked man was trying to communicate with the small people, but then got peer pressured into eating them?
yes, exactly right.
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4:13 this part is sad cuz the giant is draining blood to help the tiny ppl
Maybe many will not see my interpretation of the video but I am going to try, this animation wants to teach us a type of teaching, as we could see that the "scientist" taught that when a species drops its population, it will look for a way to counterattack the thing that is making me come down, before I saw a documentary of how some moose or deer were destroying all the fruits of the forest, in their defense the fruits injected poison into the fruit and towards its leaves with sharp points, in this way they managed to survive, although it must be taken into account that it is not that at the beginning the "humans" already had the objective of eating the little white people, but that the first one grabbed one and spoke, he tried to communicate with the little person but when the other "humans" arrived "They left because of one of their most primitive instincts, hunger, hunger can make us make drastic decisions, as we can see that they do not hesitate to buy more little men without questioning where they come from? or how did he do more? without seeing that it was a well-covered trap that would now lead the hunters to be hunted, a very excellent animation, with great teaching and a perfect duration so that you can understand everything from getting bored, I give it a 9.5/10
This is the actual "Don't judge a book by it's cover" story. At first, I thought the guy is bad, but knowing that heHe really went for the "three kids in a trenchcoat" trope, didn't he? I loved this either wayoersa
I dunno. I feel like he wouldn’t’ve been able to draw that orange fluid from his body if he didn’t have one. And I don’t think the small guys would’ve reacted like that stuff wasn’t supposed to be inside of them if it came out of their own kind.
@@spongeintheshoewell, I mean, If you randomly injected the blood from an entire other human into a second human body, the second human would likely have some sort of adverse reaction
This is incredible, I really loved it and I have no words to describe how you go from being kind of sad, how those titans eat those little people to being really happy because it turns out that the scientist was a kind of pretty little people and how he clones. one for the titans to finally disappear in more little people is unique, I loved it
Awww, the little guys are so cute! So glad they got a happy ending!❤️👏
Nom nom nom
I really thought they were actually eating them, but to see they just went in…there, really made me feel better
me seeing my friends getting eaten while on a high mountain: :'D
@@ThatGuyEricc Me a human who if you eat me you explode into other human : So you have chosen dead
@@tysonkoh2544 Me : So you have chosen dead
I honestly didn't expect what the ending was going to be
that's a good thing!
Yea in the end the good guy was the prey
@@raygoode7085 *prey
I say it again and again but your animations are beyond being just awesome
thx!!!!!
Agreed?@@PatrickSmithAnimation
6:43 The collapse of soviet union
6:37 THIS IS PRANK BRO!
I love how the renegade scientist speaks like Russian that you cant even understand it. and these type of classical animations have lessons, some weird stuff, industrialization (like some other vids like Kids Of America), etc... made me sub to thid guy. And i was hoping for a sequel to this anim just like Pour. This guy deserves more than a million subs.
I just made up the language, sounded cool to me.
1:45 me at an easter egg hunt
I think i just watched the wrong attack on titan.
Mr. Baby Chick lol 😂
WTF yes
Me to
Nah man this is beta
@@livingb0t809 LMAO
First: make me sad Ending: Make me happy
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Yeah the same
This was all prank!!!!!!
Same they did a uno reverse card
What an cool music 6:01
totally... it's called "roots of legend" by Density and Time
This animation almost complete encapsulates the result of a thought experiment I pondered about. If you had access to Star Trek replicators how would use them to kill exploitive corporations once and for all. You couldn't simply announce you had one, that'd be over real quick. No, you have to operate within their system and blend in. Start with replicating valuable minerals and sell it to them. Use their currency to build facilities to replicate replicators quietly and get a secure foothold around the world. Then, you start replicating other arbitrary valuable resources. Slowly you amp up the amounts produced and sell it to them cheap bursts. You feed them their own destruction and they become reliant upon you, since you are the cheaper source for their desires in their short sighted minds. Then, you flood them market to drive down all their valuables they paid so much money for and destroy their power. Meanwhile, your facilities start producing food, water, and other needed materials free to the people. Eventually, the corporations would come apart at the seams and the people held in their power will be free.
Provided “you” have the moral fortitude to not become “them” in the process. I like your idea, but until humans begin to care for their neighbor, GENUINELY, it is just a thought experiment.
Except that the replicators don't work that way. They generally couldn't replicate complex items and even if they could they had massive energy requirements. even in star trek they were always needing more fuel for their engines and thus the replicators. but besides that your solution to taking down corporations is to become OmniCorp yourself. if your goal was to liberate people using your miraculous machines that make everything from nothing then you would only need distribute your replicators. once you reach a point that every one has one then everyone becomes self sufficient and thus has no need for manufacturing corporations. this doesn't impact entertainment corporations or any non-commercial though. Nor does it account for countermeasures companies would inevitably use against the replicators. all they would have to do is convince enough people that they pose a health hazard, cause global warming, or are just straight up dangerous leading to legislation and passably your entire scheme getting shutdown.
I like the idea, but you completely overlooked the concept of intellectual property
Well, i can see the communism blended with SciFi way to achieve it as the revolution of proletariat in your thought. The current world issues are due to resource limitations. If you solve it then there's no coorporate greed except until you provide an incentive to innovate which you can't deny people because v once you do that you deny them any meaning, motivation or ambition.
Corporations don't just sell things. The logistics and transport is important. Capitalism works because all humans are greedy
All: Attack On Titan, The Promised Neverland etc.. Me: Trolls-?
@@helo6824 I will never tell
Lol I love the promised neverland
@@scp999-b4 same it’s so good
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3:45 Soviet soldiers production in progress, please wait...
Man no wonder why the animations just keep on getting better. great animation by the way.
You have to wonder how awful it would have been to be in the leg portion of the costume.
Man.... Greatly meaningful. Humans together when put masks of group and community becomes harmful for other human.... They're humans too....
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Hola Hola qué hace
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3:50 homework be like
1:19 Pogger
dude i love your work! all of its amazing and this is adorable
4:53 even they eat tiny people they still have manners for queueing in the line and wait
Manners never die ig
Jokers kitches
1:38 when they chew it sounds like those ticket machines from Chuck E. Cheese
Oml facts right there
Bruh moment lol
To me it sounds like they’re eating chips kinda
It is the sound
I thought I recognized that sound.
3:05 Allow me to translate: "The population has been going down lately.. AND YOUR GONNE HELP ME PUT IT BACK UP WEATHER YOU WANT TO OR NO, DRINK DIS!"
Lesson : "No matter how strong you are...if you don't have a brain,it's all in vain."
I'm 14 and I find a hard time understanding these at times sir. I understand the too much exploitation leads to extinction and lack of resources etc but I don't understand the beings ripping through the guys.
@Kamarion Simmons oh. Gluttony and greed can kill you for real🙏 thanks man
@@STXR247 it actually can
3:04 when my mom explains something to me but I don't understand.
This joke gets better since you still doesn't understand what she said before going mad
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First in Alcatel tow
the animation is very unique different from other styles of animations.. pretty creative
thx!
“Is this what the mask is” -fatherless child dream
5:35 alright guys, you have been training for this scene for years just for thie moment, all you gotta do is slide in "somehow", and explode into tiny men
The animation is still incredibly well put together but I think the old song really hit it well and it sucks of stupid copyright bullshit
yeah.. well.. the original film will always exist over on vimeo, and I think i'll keep the unlisted version here: kzhead.info/sun/ot2Pmp15iYJmZXk/bejne.html unless they don't let me keep it archived.
Copyright go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
That was so well done!! And an interesting twist at the end there!!
6:45 i love the little frontflip
thank you for the many twists and plot twists, you can see that you are well-read. as well as references. nowadays you have kept a bright heart
this animation right here is pure ART
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It is
What the hell is this and hell i love it The art is incredible The music is amazing and fits the scene And the message is clear. 10/10
thx very much! truly appreciate this comment.
this is so fun to watch, this whole existence is a masterpiece
The new attack on titan season is better than I expected
The ending made me really happy for some reason.
The ending confused the f out of me. What does it mean?
Same to me
@@Sarahmint workers of the world unite, destroy the capitalist system.
@@Sarahmint4
@@Sarahmint it means the guy make many of them for the rock get revenge
Man, I used to watch this animation so much! ITS SO GOOD!
Plot twist: The small people in the masked giants were from a different tribe. Bigger plot twist: The first masked giant did not want to do anything to the small people, but when his friends force him to, he realizes how much fun he is having.
I think that the previous version was better, but you did everything you could to make this one as good as previous one. Either way, good job! I'm glad that I downloaded the previous one though.
I'm sad to agree. The original music made me feel more of the brutality of witnessing the masked people hunting and killing the smaller ones. This new one makes me think an anime battle is occurring. The animation is still great and I hope he regains all of the likes and comments.
Can u send me the original one. I liked the music
can you send the og?
I haven't had the time to download the original one, it was definitly better... But this Version is still good
@@zamnitsaph kzhead.info/sun/ot2Pmp15iYJmZXk/bejne.html
this reminds me of an attack on titan, I don't know why just me or anyone else
me too
Me three😆
same
Yep
@@kevinplaysd4198 ёоптп
1:33 those guys really became the titans form aot
i saw a short about this and immediately recognized your art style, anyways nice video, kinda short but packed with meaning.
Thank you so much 😀
The humans are not a different. We are brother but ..... The countries and the governments And the border's ... Destroyed the right way. Keep it up and show the right way im from iran but i love the all people in the world for peace and justice. Good luck
youtube: 1:05 thats music to my ears
The story the drawing is good asf and i like the plot twist and also the song pls make a part 2!!
Can we just appreciate how he makes these videos it takes like 8 days it’s so cool keep up the good work!
thanks! although, it's more like 4 months to make a vid.
@@PatrickSmithAnimation umm OMG THATS SO LONG YOU ARE SO AMAZiNG btw I watch your videos all the time bc I am bored and they make my day better
And also I am your biggest fan I am even subscribed in my moms phone and my friend’s phone and my phone and my dads phone I can’t stop watching your videos
PlotTwist:This is the reason why there are head statues in the ground they got petrified waiting to be awakend to feast on humans again
Oh fuck world war 4 or 10 i think....
@@lanyregacho4276 no its the stone war against stone giants and humans
@@faithgillianl.mendoza7354 moai?
5:19 bugssnax in a nutshell
Love this! Your stories are univeral tales
4:48 me when I'm hungry
well, we already know its great, because its from Patrick edit: WOW, the new audio is great!
really glad you approve of new audio.. it has grown on me, I think I like it even better than original.
Noice
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@@PatrickSmithAnimation thanks for liking my comment and sorry i said thia it was supposed to be a this, word
I agree the most
When you and a portion of your community team up to mimic a giant scientist and manufacture more of your kind in order to trick the giants that have been eating all of you:
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reletable
lol
they turn into me's and die
THERE HUMANS BRUHHHHHH
A doctor titan? That would be so wild if it was in the anime.
If candy had legs, this would unfurl every halloween
I actually thought the scientist guy was one of the masked people that went rough
Rouge*
Rogue*
@John henrick delicana titanic vs britannic vs olympic
me too
This masked guy LITERALLY saved humanity
4:35 Crazy hamnurger
These are so gruesome, but I can’t stop WATCHING
3:17 I don’t feel good
This was just... absolutely spectacular. This was so we'll made!! Tots to you!! Lol
I feel the first “masked titan” was told to crush the poor little guy😢
Love watching this type of animation art even tho somtimes its hard defining what the person who made it wanted to convey
I will miss the old upload. My sons loved it. But still, at least we get to see the video.. albeit in its edited form
It's such a shame this had to be resounded - the original audio was just perfect for it - but the new sounds are great!
I know.. the original audio was just perfect, and, the original track by Karl von Kries was the impetus for the film itself! I tried to resolve the copyright issue, but just couldn't.
Круто когда ели людей
@@PatrickSmithAnimation do you possibly have a recording of the original audio?
@@beanerguys64 yes, here is original film kzhead.info/sun/ot2Pmp15iYJmZXk/bejne.html
Three years later and I still love this
Every artwork is so random but creative
We are inspired to make this out of attack on Titan EDIT: I never got this much likes
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Oh my god. MASKS. This is really deeply meaningful... *_MASKS._*
Hello again Patrick Smith!, ;).
When I saw the first dude get crushed to yellow goo I was initially disturbed and appalled to a degree. I really liked the twist. I’m glad all the little homies r ok.
Mad Scientist: "I was never really on your side"
Lesson we learned at video: never trust a man in a mask
I like this cartoon keep it up
This animation is always amazing to watch
This animation Is so amazing. The final Is so cool.
2:10 this remenber me the end of anime Blood C, attack of the rabbits
highschool students finding a bag of scattered chips
Top lessons "Do not take any work to an extreme level under any circumstances The result could be dire"
I love it when the people got scared of the scientist and then he reveals his true look
What? I wasn't scared crap
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i like how he made the blood or slime orange instead of red because then it would be pretty gorey.Nice video btw.
Looks like Nacho Cheese to me
Just some nostalgic things i almost forgot ;(
Good job team the operation was a major success
So the scientist was this small species and it just cloned it's species back to existence. Haha bog brain go *BRRRRRRRRRRRR*
Ti si Bog? English: you are god?
What did you said?I can't understand if my English language is weak or you didn't explain well🤔🤨
I said that the scientist was being intelligent and cloned their species back to life after extinction which makes them significantly more intelligent than the rest of it's species
i cant wait to see the day your channel blows up and becomes popular! i really love your animations!
thanks so much.. i'm looking forward to that too! although, i'm grateful for views i'm getting now.
me too
Patrick is the best at making these
0:49 look when the little guy say "O" 🤣🤣