The dream

foreverlurk

@skysayl YES. I have watched that one… too many times lol. It’s still one of my favorite, but it could have been even better. I’m blown away that top talents got together and decided to create a G/t animation, out of all possibilities.

The original plan was for the woman to actually shrink, but the setting in which the woman looks like a cockroach was added later:

https://kai-you.net/article/11800

“Originally, the story was about a woman who became small and fought enemies that appeared in the small world, such as cats, hamsters, Roomba and even cockroaches, but the relationship between the three parties (boyfriend, woman and enemies) became too complicated, so the cockroaches (enemies) and the woman were combined.”

So the whole Kafka-esque plot was put together after they couldn’t make the original SW idea work. Sad, since I would have liked to see her shrinking out of her clothes in such a nice animation style.

I don’t understand Japanese but there’s also an hour long interview available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPyzHGmQ8N8

Olo

@skysayl Curiously enough, just this weekend someone posted a GIF from this on Reddit and a couple of people had never seen it before. I therefore resolved to trim some GIFs from this down to under 1MB for posting here, along with a link to the video.

There really isn’t much dialogue, but the version on Vimeo has Russian (I think) dubbed over the original Japanese. Here’s a version without the dubbing.

skysayl

@foreverlurk said in The dream:

So the whole Kafka-esque plot was put together after they couldn’t make the original SW idea work. Sad, since I would have liked to see her shrinking out of her clothes in such a nice animation style.

Aw, dang, that’s a little disappointing to know but I won’t complain about quality animation.

@blehb said in The dream:

@skysayl This one is a classic! They animated her to seem so delicate.

This is the kind of chaos I love in G/t interactions.

I feel like this is such a monkey’s paw situation… yay, your dream came true, you shrunk! Time to go find boyfriend and-- oh god he thinks you’re a cockroach FUCK.

@Olo said in The dream:

I therefore resolved to trim some GIFs from this down to under 1MB for posting here, along with a link to the video.

Thanks for the link! Better quality. Where did you share the gifs?

Olo

@skysayl said:

Where did you share the gifs?

Oh, I haven’t done it, since you beat me to the punch.

There’s a bunch of them here, along with other SW gifs.

foreverlurk

I don’t know if you’ve seen Jaxon Sorby’s “Small Molly”, but he created a few sketches and animations which reminded me of this. Here’s a comparison between his work (left) and to the right a reference sketch from 20min Walk from Nishi-Ogikubo Station…

I’m a huge fan of his work, have a look : https://www.instagram.com/lumber.jaxon/

@skysayl said in The dream:

yay, your dream came true, you shrunk! Time to go find boyfriend and–

… “and”? AND what!?

I love how you think though! First thing after being shrunk? Must. Find. (now) Giant boyfriend.

littlest-lily

@foreverlurk I meeeean, to be fair, I think anyone would would want to do that to try and get help hehe. But us size kinksters have ulterior motives…

foreverlurk

@littlest-lily What… me, moi, having “ulterior motives”? Never!

Deedee

@foreverlurk that one gets me every time

SmolChlo

The gasp I gusped when he killed the cockroach … immediate breakup

skysayl

@SmolChlo said in The dream:

The gasp I gusped when he killed the cockroach … immediate breakup

Is this why men think we’re crazy? “Bro she broke up with me!”
“Why?!”
“I killed a cockroach! I thought she would be happy!”

SmolChlo

@skysayl yes. I stopped talking to a guy a few months ago bc he stepped on a cricket in front of me…

date ruined

skysayl

@SmolChlo Best to be prepared in the event you do end up underfoot. If he squishes crickets he’ll squish you.