The Reward

Hello lovely people, I hope the past days have treated you well - personally I have had a lot of stress because of an assigment overload in high school, luckily there is a cure for stress (or just temporary) and that is - ANIMATIONS FILMS!

In the last week I came across an awesome animated film called'' the reward.'' The animation are made ​​by the two danes Mikkel Mainz and Kenneth ladekjær as their graduation project at the animation school in Viborg. They both dream of Reward becoming an animated series - and work hard to achieve that goal together with a little crew.

 

 

If there is something I love about animation is it when you can feel the creatores ethusiame and big dreams shine through the animation - this is quite evident in'' The Reward'' where you can see, and at the same time feel how much work that has been put into both the characters and the universe - and its monsters.

 

 

 

The film is about two guys, Wilheim og Vito, whose paths crosses in a small town. At some point a hero comes riding on a horse and dropes af treasure map. Both Wilheaim and Vito wants the treasure map, which lead to a fight and a map torn in half. With their piece of the map they are now forced to Work together which doesn't pleases Wilheim.

Through their journey toward the treasure they experience both ups and downs, which is to strengthen their friendship that has slowly taken shape - and ends with an almost brother-like relationship

The journey lasts many years and you can see how both men age - but age doens't affect them in a negative way on the contrary - old age in the film is rather shown as a measure of masculinity and epicness that both of them as young boys were fascinated by.

 

 

One of my favorite parts of the film is when Wilheim and Vito finally reach the treasures location - and find that the treasure is far from what they expected. However both men come to realize that the treasure weren't that great of importance but rather the journey to find it. This insight shows simultaneously that both of them - besides their incredible friendship, strength, masculinity and epicness also been clarified with life and themselves - they have found the deeper meaning.

 

 

The Reward is by far one of the greatest short animation film from Denmark - and luckily many people has realised it's potential and are now supporting the crew behind it and their goal to make The Reward an animated series.

 

 Personally I really hope that The Reard gets it's own series - because I just can't get enough of the amount of epicness that film contains!

Here is a link for the short animation - enjoy 9:02 minutes of epicness!

 

 

See you Guys Next Thursday!