Submarine ChannelWhen creatives of the commercial kind make something just for the hell of it, we get a warm, glowing feeling inside. “You made this beautiful oeuvre just for us?”, we say (while checking said oeuvre for clandestine logo placement). Well, Doug Purver sure did, with his charming short Omar and His Skyhook. A fantastical tale of a little boy who’s grandpa stands him up for this first fishing trip, and the sub-aquatic sky-swimming adventures that follow. According to the production blog, two short days of shooting plus a long year of post, animation and compositing made this captivating, dreamy animation the mini-masterpiece it is today.
