This film has won international awards such as Best Animated Short Film at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, Best Animation at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and Best Animation at the French Independent Film Festival. Director Chris Jones took eight years to complete.
In a windy, lightning-thundering weather, a dull bookworm with big eyes was holding a horror novel called "The Passenger" and waiting for the bus on a desolate suburban trail. The bookworm trembles with fear from the plot in the book, and the surrounding environment intensifies the fear. A heavy rain came and the bookworm finally got on a bus to go home. There was no one in the car, and there was a goldfish with a strange expression sitting quietly in the water in a plastic bag next to the seat.
The bookworm reads the book and turns on the Walkman. Unexpectedly, the goldfish that heard the music was like a werewolf that saw the moonlight, instantly transforming...
The story is very imaginative, and it is especially easy to have wild fantasies when you are alone in this special environment. Therefore, you can say that this is a bookworm's adventures in the wilderness, or it can be said that it is a hallucination that occurs after he is fascinated by reading. At the end of the story, the bookworm takes the goldfish to scare the vicious dog. The plot is also quite original.
This 3D animation of only 7 minutes was completed on a DVD. Chris Jones, a game illustrator, spent two years in his spare time to conceive the entire story, and then devoted the next six years to full-time work. The story is short and interesting, but the character design is still a little rough.
Video address: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjQ0MTc5ODg0.html
