Balloon

8/9/2026

I loved the sophistication of the mix between the animated backgrounds and the intricacies of the clay-mation modelling. It's a linear shadow that discovers that by manipulating balloons it gives itself more shape, more body - even musculature, and by devising an astonishing array array of intricate contraptions it can almost assume human form. He's a bit lonely, though, and so when he espies a young girl with her own balloon he decided to capture her and tie her up. That doesn't quite go to plan, especially as some of his own technology starts to work against him... Can she escape or is she doomed to a blow-in life too? It'd the movement that gets me here, the seamless perception-bending backgrounds, the gradually emerging two-dimensional figure of balloon man - think "Bibendum" only a li