When an animation is getting attention from DN favourites Eran Hilleli, The Moth Collective and Eric Power over on Vimeo, it was a pretty forgone conclusion we were going to love Nelson Boles’ Little Boat.
Initially looking like one of the simplest animations you’ve ever seen, Boles’ film soon transforms into a complex and meticulously detailed animation that takes us on a journey through mysterious lands and violent wars.
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[...] Little Boat – I’ve never felt so much for an inanimate object as I did for Nelson Boles’ Little Boat. [...]
[...] you took Nelson Boles’ heart warming animation Little Boat, stripped it of its cute characters and pulled it into a live action rather than animated universe, [...]