Eventually, he sees a sparkling orange fish jumping out of the water and vainly attempts to catch it until it begins to rain.

However, this meal causes the bird to grow sick, turn orange and fall over dead, after which the fish in the lake begin to devour his corpse.

Production designer Raymond Zibach (Kung Fu Panda, The Road to El Dorado) painted all the backgrounds for the film, whose visual style was inspired by the works of J. M. W.

[1] Bird Karma made its world premiere on February 24, 2018, when it was included on a program of shorts as part of New York International Children's Film Festival, and was then attached to the Japanese theatrical release of The Boss Baby the following month on March 21[2] before it was shown as the opening program of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival that June.

It won the Audience Award at the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival, and was lauded when screened at CalArts, Gnomon and the CTN Animation Expo.