Quiz 2: Pfffirate and Keith Lango's Four "Pints"

Last week we saw a short film titled "Pfffirate". When Professor Leeper talked about how expensive it was to make water in animation, I had a flashback of when I saw Veggie Tales' "Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue." I recalled watching the Behind the Scenes footage where one of the animators mentioned how expensive and hard it was to make water and elements similar to water. These elements require a lot of flow and free movement, take a lot of time and money to animate to perfection. However perfection is not the key to make a media product successful.
Keith Lango's four points (or "pints") may not have been present at the time that this short film was made, but they definitely correlate with this short film. They wanted an experience of making a short animated film when they were studying and they worked hard on it and succeeded in making a great film. They did it to exercise their skills and what they had acquired.
Instead of confining themselves to the conventional, expensive way of animating the pirate's arms and the sea, they removed the pirate's arms to give him free movement without spending time on animating his arms. Moreover, the idea of animating water like a balloon and giving it an extra layer to show the water moving in a specific direction was brilliant. Without wasting time in animating arms and water the "best" way, they found a way to animate them, one that would fit in perfectly with their story.
These young filmmakers did not make a story to impress critics. They had a fun idea that they thought would entertain people, and that was a success for them. The idea was original and entertaining and the filmmakers were successful in using techniques that were profound, something that was not confined inside a "box." It seemed that they enjoyed making this animated short film.