Although children aren't entomologists, when they take a trip to the country and start roaming through fields and meadows, they do spend an incredible amount of time observing insects, readily imagining them in utterly weird, surrealistic situations. So forget everything you've ever learned about segmented, winged or wingless little creatures, because you're about to discover bug reality. Animation (five minute episodes) shows insects in their day-to-day existence, "at grassroots level," as if we were right there with them. Although the series calls to mind a wildlife documentary, it's a documentary in which the insects are presented in burlesque situations, with a fair amount of philosophical contemplation thrown in for the older crowd.
Minuscule is a growing collection of short animations that follow the day-to-day existence of anthropomorphic insects. The characters are modeled on computer in 3D and are then set against real scenery. Each animation has a short, self contained and often humorous storyline. The audio is a combination of genuine insect and ambient recordings, and sound effects such as car or helicopter engines, synthesized buzzing etc. During the episodes no words are ever spoken and, although it is a real world setting with houses, fences, cars and garbage bins often involved in the storyline, humans themselves appear only peripherally...
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Info Creator: Thomas Szabo Release Date: 2007 Genre: Animation / Comedy Country: France Quality: Very Good Video Resolution: 640x480 Video Codec: XVID Video Bitrate: 1465 kb/s Video Framerate: 25 Audio Codec: MP3 Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s Runtime: 96 min Size: 1.07 GB (12 Parts)