A kid remembers wanting to be a painter. The animation style shifts with each memory, each brushstroke getting rougher or smoother or stranger as the story moves through time. By the end you realize the changing art itself was the story, not a visual trick, but the actual shape of growing up.
A girl looks back on her memories of her grandfather in this short film, made by Man Wei as a graduation project at Musashino Art University. The story begins with a childhood dream of becoming a painter and gathers the people, places and incidents tied to those memories. The painting style shifts as the story unfolds, so the changing artwork itself becomes a metaphor for growing up. The result is a quiet slice of life drama in which a childhood is rendered in a look of its own, blending the past with the gradual changes in style that come as she grows older.
