K.I.T. | Award-Winning Animated Short Film | Unreal Engine 4

[@xenol7795]

It's amazing how this short, without a word being uttered, tells a tale that can be equivalent to an entire novel. This was amazing, and made me feel emotions that I haven't felt in a long time

[@eduardmanecuta5350]

This is truly a movie. Why? Because it conveys it's story without a single word. This is the power of cinema.

[@deboraition]

No one gonna mention how this whole film was carried by Jonathan Yang's music? Yang did an incredible job at telling the story and was the only reason I was immersed in a robot walking round a neighborhood.

[@KutWrite]

For me not the only reason, but certainly brought out the pathos.

[@woodstoney]

Nicely done. I actually felt sorry for K.I.T. being left all alone. It no longer has a purpose as it wonders about replaying so many of its memories.

[@loendsti]

K.I.T can create human life if he tries.

[@jonpayne4931]

'WALL-E'.

[@michaelbay2390]

An amazing cgi short film, can you take a look? m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHWoeXdjaMuesNU

[@johnpayne7873]

I feel a tightness in my throat, a twinging heat upon my face and in my eyes. When one creates with great care, even unliving things are given a soul ... and this piece has a pure one.

[@tumuakiblandford5401]

Lol you sure you don’t have covid? Jk but true though

[@blaisebaileyfinnegan8202]

I mostly feel like you ingest too much soy and that you have woman emotions.

[@shanemiller6982]

LiI was gonna say monkey pox... But you already beat me anyway.

[@KutWrite]

Your touches of humor are welcome!

[@chriscooper654]

Another effective use of "show, don't tell" in action. Though short, the story is eloquent and the setting complete.

[@dvacts3360]

I like how Kit shows some emotion by shaking a little while looking at it's creator

[@Ardronaute2022]

un immense bravo! tellement d'émotions.... merci beaucoup pour ce superbe travail!

[@SeanFoyMakesMovies]

Just under a month! Amazing job. Great visuals and incredible graphics. Congrats!

[@VivekYadav-ds8oz]

Notice how the lighting on the flashbacks is off, more due to like a blooming sun rather than the gloomy ambience in the current time, indicating that the past was very joyful and happy for the robot.

[@jamesherman1350]

Outstanding work. You did a great job developing the story through the visuals providing a path for the viewer to develop an emotional attachment.

[@jamesmorgan1063]

Nice story showing that AI could possibly possess human emotions and experience the feelings of loss, sadness and loneliness. Reminded me of the outer limits episode, Demon with a glass hand. Well done!

[@Here_is_Waldo]

Well, a robot would have to have some sense of emotions or they wouldn't really get on well with humans. Even with things like Siri we want them to tell jokes, have a sense of humour, feel sympathetic and so forth. I doubt anyone could build a computer that develops sapience by accident, so building emotions into it would come first. It would be crucial for people to be able to interact with it that it felt in some way the same as us.

[@solucaoatende]

STOP TRYING TO RUIN THE AI. The worse thing you can do with that is give then "emotions"....

[@jamesmorgan1063]

@@solucaoatende That's Too Bad!

[@patfranks785]

@@jamesmorgan1063 Imagine how more F-ed up we would be giving emotions to AI. Some would have to be gay, black, yellow, green, trans, dog lovers, cat lovers, etc. Are they property, do they have rights? What a mess.

[@pmecenas1]

@@patfranks785 The question of AI person/property status and rights is a serious area of inquiry in ethics and speculative fiction (one of my favorites in the latter). Good people are trying to figure it out so we can deal with it when necessary.

[@Creophagous]

Beautiful. That is the only way to describe this. My hope is that we never reach a stage of war where people kill each other off, with only robots to remember us. ;-;

[@dot-hubbard-i-luv-my-beretta]

Greetings Miss Crep; you know a lot of these comments are speaking about the emotions. However I too was struck more by the passage of time. Your thoughts about perhaps the robots were the only ones left was even further than I took it, but it makes sense, because I didn't see any other folks..🤔💯

[@rdd13r]

Ukrainians received Boston Dynamics robots this week ;) Whether or not we're destined to exterminate ourselves doesn't depend on what we do but what we don't do. Learn, develop, discover, invent vs. believe, follow, obey, warship.

[@KutWrite]

I'm having trouble writing through the tears. "Mother." Plus now I know what K.I.T. stands for.

[@johnharrison7997]

Brilliant work. So much emotion and feeling from this short. Well done 👍

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

If this movie touched your heart then you MUST watch Finch, the new movie with Tom Hanks. Satisfaction guaranteed.

[@HondEpic]

Straight up agree

[@dot-hubbard-i-luv-my-beretta]

I'm checking that out right now.

[@tekman2000]

VERY well done, thank you so much for taking the time and effort to make this 😀

[@SweetBabyJesusOnTheCross]

I liked the story itself, and the lack of any dialogue was a nice touch. Plus the way it was told through the robots brief flashbacks/memories being seen through overlap of present day might not have been anything new but it 2as done well. Only complaint is that the graphics at times looked like I was watching gameplay from the original Resident Evil game.

[@amywende1847]

This was amazing! I’ve watched several times. I can’t get the images and the music out of my head.

[@arthursmith5373]

A well done, though sad, film. Very touching! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@asifmahmud8661]

man, you nailed it... im crying. and the think hurts me is you only have 361sub!!!! take my love,brandon

[@BrandonDHill]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you watching

[@asifmahmud8661]

@@BrandonDHill haha,thanks my boi. you have instagram,dude? i will follow you.

[@BrandonDHill]

@@asifmahmud8661 Yes, my IG is @bdhill121

[@lulu111_the_cool]

Short animated videos in the beginning you kinda see that the car is not really on the ground, but is floating a bit. And it seams the robot also slides when walking. But from a not technical site it is good the cuts and how the camera moves. Is really good plus the story too.

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

Reminds me of Curie the medical robot companion from Fallout 4

[@arnechristiansen8672]

Brandon this is Incredible truly great work!!!

[@BrandonDHill]

Thank you so much Arne! Means a lot coming from you!

[@KutWrite]

Yours is very good too! Just visited your channel.

[@johnshields6852]

The cycle of life and death isn't just for individuals, species come and go, the earth is an amazingly resilient planet, it's seen mass extinctions come and go, and will many more times before it runs it's course,maybe 1Obillion years longer.

[@Cruzer0113]

Wall-E + Big Hero 6 = This master piece! Amazing work!

[@PeBoVision]

Far greater than an absolute mastery of the engine, your ability to emote with no facial animation was awe inspiring. Kudos gentlemen.

[@psneves]

How can A silly short make me cry in the morning?

[@PanBrosGaming]

I was not expecting this but this is epic none the less

[@Pokemegaman]

Amazing work , I felt the emotion and passion you put into this piece of work. Great Job!

[@abdelhamidbenmoussa8214]

really touching, especially the last scenes

[@andrewtippman]

Beautiful and tragic. To program machines to care may be the cruellest thing humans will ever do.

[@JohnDoeSmith08]

All of us who have lost someone very dear can relate to this. Very touching video.❤

[@billyandrew]

And that's why we can't have nice things. Superlative work and thanks for uploading.

[@hariseldon3786]

Ahh good - thanks so much for a beautiful piece of art.

[@gvdemarco]

Amazing...but not unexpected from Brandon!

[@TamTran-vw7zm]

Subtle ending without heavy-handed audience manipulation. Well done, you.

[@ultraxfo5664]

This is incredibly well done and I could totally see this being a game almost! Fantastic Movie! Keep up the amazing work!

[@KutWrite]

Yes. KIT could search for living humans while being hunted for his valuable parts. Flashes of his memory could reward the player for certain actions.

[@denisyogore9660]

Awesome! I thought it was a game intro, loved it. So much emotion going on in there.

[@kennethcarruth7852]

Well done Brandon!!!! This is one of the best short films I’ve ever seen…..I thought about it most of the day while at work , pulls at the heart strings…Really loved it. You will only get better so keep up the great work. Congratulations on the Awards. All the best Buddy👍

[@leonaraya2149]

Amazing work. I love it!

[@taufanandriansyah7174]

Film cartoon anak durasi 47 minutes Selamat bekerja

[@surfsister100]

Made me cry.

[@kurtjensen7264]

I have always wondered what the robots will do,once were all gone!

[@picklejho69]

3:07 K.I.T remembers the Dad with the hella broken wrist who was too busy caring for his son to care for his own injury

[@jasonhenderson3678]

Good little story!! Thank you

[@Frank_2023]

He should've revived the Kitt in the Ambulance so he wouldn't be alone :)

[@billyandrew]

Possibly no power source available. KIT might also have lacked technical knowledge, being programmed to deal with only human physiology.

[@ptonpc]

Maybe whatever killed of humanity also killed of most tech? Or he might go back to the ambulance to revive that Kit after he visited his mother's grave?

[@n2bfw884]

This is a beautiful story.

[@jesuscaraveo8904]

Even artichokes have a heart. (Music title).

[@craigschultz9266]

Very insightful,its all about Love baby!!

[@djr1943]

Well done! Great story! Thank you!

[@ChristianFriend]

that was such an amazing animation

[@crazy_ninja_force5225]

Man, they should redo this short now that there is the Metahuman in Unreal Engine 5 now. I bet it would look really legit then.

[@jimmccorison]

Is it possible for an AI/Android to be a ghost? After all, there was a lifeless K.I.T. in the back of the ambulance. Is he just the spirit of K.I.T. roaming the long-dead planet occasionally encountering other ghosts?

[@KutWrite]

That's a good thought, but I took it that the ambulance held his destroyed former coworkers. After all, KIT could lift and place the gear, which I wouldn't imagine a spirit could do. I liked the touch that whatever happened there* nature came back. (* "Sopranos" reference)

[@RasmusSchultz]

The ironic thing about these Android love stories is they invoke empathy for machines simulating a credible display of emotion. This *should* make you terrified.

[@lucynowacki3327]

Beautiful

[@starwarsclonedosevoice5290]

If this movie had a game it would bring a hole new table to this

[@theweb1244]

SOMA has a better plot than this. Great game. If you can't play it, watch the Markiplier playthrough.

[@MRRice-wz3bv]

Very nicely done.

[@MackMateCom]

That was beautiful

[@macsmich8273]

Video game npcs walking with dramatic music, awarded

[@guinnesslover2970]

Loved this 👍🙏

[@blaisebaileyfinnegan8202]

It's nice to see they chose "Unbelievably Ugly Woman" as their model.

[@cronosofelysium1988]

absolutely amazing music

[@hawkintelligence]

okay.. How is this award-winning? It's pretty simplistic animations and rendering. There is clipping on many of the shots.. So.. wtf? ??

[@IamSH1VA]

🥺😢 Heart wrenching ❤️

[@EvanLakewood]

This film is part of our school assignment

[@EvanLakewood]

Lol

[@scifiroel]

Amazingly done! The only thing that confuses me a little is Theresa Wright's Birth year, 1962. She's older than my parents (1963) and apparently, given the flashback we see, she invented K.I.T. when she was in her mid thirties/early forties. This means K.I.T. must have been invented in the mid 90's or early 2000's... That choice puzzles me somewhat as we obviously don't have these robots walking around right now and one could easily have picked a later date where K.I.T. would have been invented in the future. Or am I missing a certain point here?

[@anakay1184]

It's not our timeline

[@dextreme7186]

If it was, then they found a way to slow or reverse ageing, Theresa being one of many who went head first into a longer life

[@billyandrew]

*scifiroel* You exchanged seven and a half minutes of _your_ reality for _this_ one; walked on a journey with a medical robot, accepting that it had emotional connections and memories. Is this _reality_ the real one or has your mind just told you that? Were you, in fact, KIT, at the end and actually a tad reluctant to return to this reality? Just a thought... Lol.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

@@billyandrew I think you're missing the point of OP's comment. Everything seemed futuristic, so why was the movie set in our time? It may have had some meaning to it for the film maker to have made this decision, since it is such strange detail to have included when pushing the dates forward a couple of decades would have avoided the question altogether.

[@tig1tig1]

Also it seems odd that she would be buried in the front yard of the house she grew up in. I guess it could have been just a memorial but it seemed more like a grave stone to me. Or perhaps the house was kept as a historical landmark? Just seemed odd.

[@Penfold8]

I'm surprised Red Cross hasn't launched a copyright claim for the red cross on the emergency van and on the med kit.

[@larryjackson8675]

Im impressed and quite captivated. Keep it up

[@unyimeumo582]

The story is just epic. I can relate to the message conveyed and the emotion projected in the scenary and sounds. the memories are just as great for someone that is learning to use unreal Engine. You are great but with a little more work, you will be unstoppable

[@darkbulb367]

TRANSHUMANISM here we come! Beautiful work, sweet job of slowly feeding the viewer clues. Comfortable wrap up too. Can't wait for these guys to replace human cops. Get rid of all that human error, hesitation, common sense & rational thinking. Roll out the Bots. Most of us will be replaced & depopped.

[@3dchick]

wowowow.Just wow.

[@americanpatriot2422]

Outstanding video

[@dolcettdoug]

Our machines will be all that is left of us if we don't smarten up. In fact, all it takes is just a few lunatics at the top and Poof, it's all gone.

[@TheDajoca]

Beautiful. And by the way, Lets Go.

[@Dezynite]

Oh isn’t that sweet, a robot programmed to be sentimental. Funny how we project our humanity onto the inanimate objects around us. And yet that wasteland the robot walks through was caused by it’s very development. How many centuries we’ve been doing this?

[@TheRabidCabbage]

Since you presented it for awards and won, you must be open to critique, so here's some: So a robot walks down a road, sees memories of humans doing human things, walks into a house, sits down next to an oddly proportioned human memory, which gives him a cog. he then goes outside and looks at graves, and then it ends. ok.. I am sorry to be blunt. but when I see "Award-Winning" in a title, I want to be blown away by world class work, not some school project that looks like an asset flip walking simulator game with nothing more than a single walk loop with minor variation. I mean, just check out the game "Everyone's gone to the Rapture", which is essentially the same thing, just done a lot better in every aspect. Exploring a world where everyone has gone and all you have is their memories. Using muddy mossy floor without making it react to the footsteps was a bad choice. Stood out like a sore thumb. The "walk anim" wasn't properly aligned with the characters speed. ie. foot sliding. I can see you tried to mitigate it by jumping away from the feet quickly, but I saw it. Frankly I'm baffled you would focus on the feet at all given the above issues. Why did the memories have over-bright lighting? was that an artistic choice? If so, I don't think it had the effect you were hoping for. I would've gone for a hologram or maybe add some ghosting to their motion. Not just turn off shadows/GI. :P Do you feel it was worthy of those awards? Can anyone tell me this is on the same level as say, Pixar? Of-course not. It has nothing to do with team size either. there are single guys knocking stuff out on or even above Pixar's level, it just takes a lot longer. It's better than I could do for sure, and it's probably a great start for an aspiring young animator, but that's it. I dare say you could do any search for unreal engine short and every result would be lightyears ahead of this. despite their lack of Award flexing. And what is with all the comments lol. Everyone having existential crisis' at the deep emotions. Christ. "Amazing! How much emotion is put into this short film and a complete story that it puts in our minds is just staggering!" - Just What?

[@josejose7423]

it's the same scenario of a game called 死寂(Deathly Stillness)

[@rhetoricalname2187]

Ok nobody get mad at me but- I love the sweet story, was expecting a twist at the end though instead of the grave scene. Imagine if it showed all the flashbacks of people and then after a couple minutes it shows an actual person, and K.I.T. lunges at said person & cuts to black. I was expecting a twist like that at the end, explaining why everything was abandoned.

[@000BSA000]

I thought the exact same thing.

[@tattooeddragon]

Why were they created? What happened to humanity? Why is this the only one left? How long has the robot been wandering around? Why would a machine have memories of humanity? Why should I care about its creator when there is no back story? How come nobody puts as much time into the story as they do the animation?

[@kellymiller9831]

I like these CGI shorts, but why is it always an end of days or humanity is almost dead story????

[@manolomiranda4619]

Un poco triste , recordaba a su creadora como a su madre .

[@kellysavage7073]

So sad, and it kind of reminds me of Fallout 1,2,3,4.

[@danoyze8213]

Was sitting in the car watch this after work now I have to go home and explain to my wife I wasted 7 minutes and 30 seconds of my life

[@-Burs]

Nicely done! Getting some TLOU2 vibes..

[@christianhuber2151]

WoW

[@phoibos1516]

this short film gives off Wall-e vibes. i vibe with it.

[@KutWrite]

In a way, but I recall Wall-e as being comical. This is - er - dead serious.

[@Doctor-Problems]

Удивительная работа. Нет слов...

[@SwordOfS]

Self awareness in AI. A great achievement or the seed of the human demise ?

[@AaronSpielman]

Overly heavy handed.

[@scienceathome6144]

Ureal engines are beast game engine i like

[@hort-dog]

UE5 remaster?, this is amazing.

[@kamols.5592]

The back ground was from some under development game in the "Steam" I'm use to test it.

[@dkbros1592]

Good work brother good work you did good I like it

[@devillefilms8244]

Well done!

[@MeraVerse]

Love this

[@murilogoulart4935]

Nice soundtrack 👌

[@locknload517]

Good movie, excellent song

[@frankberry6220]

Bravo!

[@fabianoperes2155]

Really nice. I would increase motion blur on robot to avoid the harsh motion. And also, if you are not creating foliage interaction, try to avoid showing where it should happen.

[@richardbidinger2577]

Fantastic work.