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Flatland
2007 · Film · short · 36 min
Directed by Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson
Set in a world of only two dimensions inhabited by sentient geometric shapes, the story follows Arthur Square and his ever-curious granddaughter Hex. When a mysterious visitor arrives from Spaceland, Arthur and Hex must come to terms with the truth of the third dimension, risking dire consequences from the evil Circles that have ruled Flatland for a thousand years.
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> Your only option today is to go buy an asset pack and do your best.
There is a real possibility the assets generated by these tools will look equally or even more generic, the same generated images today are full of tells.
> What this means is that making even a 2 minute short animation is out of reach for a solo artist.
Flatland was animated and edited by a single person. In 2007. It’s a good movie. Granted, the characters are geometric shapes, but still it’s a 90 minute 3D movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland_(2007_Ehlinger_film)
Puparia is a gorgeous 2D animated film done by a single person in 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puparia
These are exceptional cases (by definition, as there aren’t that many of them), but do not underestimate solo artists and the power of passion and resilience.
I recommend the movie too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland_(2007_film)
Same here. I understand perfectly everything that was said in the video but I still don't understand how the fourth dimension quite works.
However, having only heard of hypercubes and not hyperspheres before I decided to see if there was anything useful about them online and I found this video that I just started watching and already 1 min 50 sec into the video something very interesting was said;
> Everybody knows what the sphere is. I'm thinking of a hollow sphere so like a basketball right. That's a two-dimensional surface living in a three-dimensional space. The hypersphere is generalized one dimension up, so in four dimensions you have this three-dimensional space called the 3-sphere or the hypersphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krmV1hDybuU
Already this is telling me something that I have not heard before, and which I find much more helpful than talking about what a shape looks like from the perspective of someone living one dimension further down. That being said it was still useful having that explained as well, which is what Flatland: The Movie (2007) was about as well. Just this fact I quoted above was even more useful IMO.
As mentioned in the article, there were, not one, but two animated films released based on the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland:_The_Movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland_%282007_film%29