Cupcakes

January 27, 2018 2:34 AM

Here's the Plan - Animated short film where a cat and dog couple decide to open a bakery. (slyt)
posted by fearfulsymmetry (11 comments total)

"A married cat-dog couple of cupcake bakers dream of opening their own bakery. One day their oven breaks and they have to postpone their dream in order to earn money and replace it. Somewhere down the line, they drift apart from their dream and from themselves."

It's made by Chilean animator Fernanda Frick.
posted by signal at 6:31 AM on January 27, 2018 [1 favorite]

That was lovely. Thank you!
posted by KleenexMakesaVeryGoodHat at 8:41 AM on January 27, 2018

Life is what happens while you make other plans.
posted by SPrintF at 9:42 AM on January 27, 2018 [1 favorite]

About halfway through the introduction of this couple and their dream, I said “oh geeze this is gonna be grueling”. And holy crap it was. Beautifully made but daaammmnnn.
posted by egypturnash at 9:50 AM on January 27, 2018

Oh, that was great! And I love that they're named Kat and Doug?
posted by Secretariat at 10:11 AM on January 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats baking together, mass hysteria!
posted by Splunge at 10:13 AM on January 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

So glad there wasn't a baby plotline. Cliche, not the point, and raises too many questions.
posted by amtho at 10:21 AM on January 27, 2018

Yeah I'm just glad it turned out ok in the end really. Great stuff.
posted by some loser at 10:23 AM on January 27, 2018

I'm most impressed by the sound design/choices, but don't know enough about software animation to praise or criticize any achievement of emoting, etc. It seems to be all "eye-work". The writing is abysmally metaphoric, infantilizing, and way off any meaningful mark

Six years to achieve the economic stability they do? Foregoing procreative sex? The beginning are sublimated abstractions to address issues dealing with virginity and commitment. Ugh. Really, really preachy and fundamentalist delusion paraded as valid social issues from a TINY minority asserting values far outside a norm from the "have nots" in Chile's developing economy.

It's straight-up propaganda from the most zealous of Christians and their skewed ethics who haunt the Chilean government and its policy making. And hardly cheap to produce. Only government money could have paid for such advocacy.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 10:48 AM on January 27, 2018 [4 favorites]

That is a near-perfect, little thing. Thank you for posting.
posted by steef at 2:37 PM on January 27, 2018

Six years to achieve the economic stability they do? Foregoing procreative sex?

Six years is like, half their lives. And cats and dogs are different species; they can't produce offspring together.
posted by um at 4:19 AM on January 30, 2018