Spring is a 2019 animated fantasy short film written and directed by Andreas Goralczyk and produced by Ton Roosendaal and Francesco Siddi.
The atmosphere is dark and misty, in direct contrast with the sunny springtime weather above; the clouds causing this surround the heads of ancient spirits that have been freezing the forest, who take the form of anthropomorphic creatures bearing four tree-legs.
The creature sheds one of its musical antenna parts (a chime), which she plugs into the eye of her staff to activate it a glowing red color.
Numerous chain-strings cascade from the top of a rock wall, with the chimes of years past lodged, alternating perpendicularly, into each chink of the chain.
[4][5] The character and asset files for the film were released under the CC-By 4.0 Creative Commons License on Blender Cloud.
The cast choreographed a climax scene of the film for reference material, which needed to portray the stress that Spring felt.
[7] Writing for Film Inquiry, Adam Mock opens his review article with, "Spring has sprung and the result is truly a thing of beauty."
A "simple idea" with "complex elegance", he compares the use of music as an interspecies language to Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.