Striking CG animation style from filmmaker Murat Sayginer

I don’t know about anyone else, but do you know what type of short films that I personally admire the most? It’s the ones that attempt to showcase something that’s both unique and ambitious regardless of their short running time. The most recent example of this is director Murat Sayginer’s The Flying Fish, a 21 minute long animated short film that follows a Flying Fish at the beginning of its birth and how its journey onward from there becomes the catalyst for a transition into an new era.

One thing I should state about The Flying Fish is that isn’t a type of short film that’s driven by either plot nor character (hence why the synopsis I wrote about it is very brief). Instead this is more an experimental short animated film that uses both music and visual imagery to convey the themes/ideas that it wants to explore. Over the course of its 21 minute run-time, Sayginger uses a flying fish as a metaphor to explore our world from the beginning of history through into our future with the help CG animation.

What struck me the most about The Flying Fish is, without a doubt, its visually striking CG animation style. There are so many unique and amazing visuals throughout the film that are definitely are meant to be symbolic of everything that we as human beings have experienced in our world (love, death, history, religion, war, technology, capitalism, bigotry, science, nature, sexuality etc.).  Murat Sayginer lets us as an audience interpret what the images themselves are trying to say instead. Plus the original synth score that plays throughout really does add a lot to everything that we are seeing onscreen. The combination of both the great animation and music definitely made it quite an hypnotic watch that’s for sure.

Excerpt from Bede Jermyn's review of ''The Flying Fish'', a short film by Murat Saygıner, a director who is also  working as a motion designer, digital artist, retoucher and filmmaker.

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