"Escalade" is an animated short produced by the studio Birdo, scripted by Paulo Muppet. The film is done using both 2D and 3D techniques of animation, giving it a smooth flow of movement. The blocks differentiate themselves from the characters in terms of relative dimension, insinuating weight and physical consistency, while the characters appear more agile. Furthermore, the selective use of colouring (which are two complementary colors - yellow and purple) aesthetically appeals to the human mind, as a sense of perspective is created with the shading of the two colors. Although very short, the animation effectively portrays an aspect of the human ego through a cartoonish allegory - the insatiable urge to validate one's prideful "superiority". By inconsiderately striving only to surpass another, the main character keeps on stacking blocks (which are eviscerated from the very land that houses him and the rest) without caring about the damage those missing blocks would cause to the "island". With this, a symbolic parallel is drawn: the island being the environment of Earth, the blocks being its resources, while the vertical stacks present personal possession. Sadly, this is what our society has been reduced to, thus the animation elaborates on the issue in a very playful manner. Are we all so egoistic?"Escalade" - https://vimeo.com/36549221
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