Always glad to see appreciation for the works in Short Peace. 'Combustible' is an exceptional short, and it's really cool to see these production materials. The settei are so clean - as expected of Otomo's circle! but given how tiny these characters appear in the short, it's amazing seeing the details up close.
For sure -- the production materials for this one are gorgeous. It's crazy to think about how experienced this crew was (Hidekazu Ohara was once a Topcraft animator on The Last Unicorn and Nausicaa!). Short Peace in general may be the best overall anthology film Otomo's been in thus far. So many great shorts in there. We've wanted to profile A Farewell to Weapons for years and years, and we might finally have enough material now, maybe even without the hyper-overpriced artbook. We'll have to see!
I actually purchased Short Peace after coming across Possessions on YouTube and wanted to own it in high res. Love this anthology, wish they could do more shorts like these!! Thank you for this awesome backstory- rewatched the short again after reading this!
Love to hear that! Thank you. And we're definitely crossing our fingers for more Otomo shorts -- he's working on *something* animated right now but we're not sure about the details.
Thanks so much for this kind comment! And absolutely, Combustible is amazing despite its low profile. The main downside is how hard it is to find the Short Peace anthology on streaming services. Wish we could offer more help there. Either way, hope you're able to track it down!
It’s a great one. So weird how many of Otomo’s films are tough to find today — given his fame, you’d think they’d be more available. Short Peace does appear to be on Kanopy, if you have access to that: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/short-peace
It really is. If only the film was more widely available to watch! So many people could be enjoying it (and this whole anthology) if they just had the chance.
Always glad to see appreciation for the works in Short Peace. 'Combustible' is an exceptional short, and it's really cool to see these production materials. The settei are so clean - as expected of Otomo's circle! but given how tiny these characters appear in the short, it's amazing seeing the details up close.
For sure -- the production materials for this one are gorgeous. It's crazy to think about how experienced this crew was (Hidekazu Ohara was once a Topcraft animator on The Last Unicorn and Nausicaa!). Short Peace in general may be the best overall anthology film Otomo's been in thus far. So many great shorts in there. We've wanted to profile A Farewell to Weapons for years and years, and we might finally have enough material now, maybe even without the hyper-overpriced artbook. We'll have to see!
I actually purchased Short Peace after coming across Possessions on YouTube and wanted to own it in high res. Love this anthology, wish they could do more shorts like these!! Thank you for this awesome backstory- rewatched the short again after reading this!
Love to hear that! Thank you. And we're definitely crossing our fingers for more Otomo shorts -- he's working on *something* animated right now but we're not sure about the details.
Beautiful article. I didn't know about Combustible at all, love to read about its creation, I need to watch it now.
Thanks so much for this kind comment! And absolutely, Combustible is amazing despite its low profile. The main downside is how hard it is to find the Short Peace anthology on streaming services. Wish we could offer more help there. Either way, hope you're able to track it down!
Wow I will have to keep an eye out for it in the future.
It’s a great one. So weird how many of Otomo’s films are tough to find today — given his fame, you’d think they’d be more available. Short Peace does appear to be on Kanopy, if you have access to that: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/short-peace
Fascinating animation!
A favorite of ours, for sure!
Such a stunning premise for a story.
It really is. If only the film was more widely available to watch! So many people could be enjoying it (and this whole anthology) if they just had the chance.
so cool! I think I found this on Mubi!
Ah, that's great! We could only find it on Kanopy where we are -- it's so rare to see it around on most services. It deserves so many more eyes.