CONTRABANDZ - Animated Thesis Film

And all the Italians lived happily ever… I think I also don’t know they got dem pizza triangles tho

LITERALLY THE MOST FUN FILM TO WORK ON.

I want to bring up how intelligent the principal is here. He crumbled Citrin's entire plan by giving him what he might theoretically have wanted earlier- to lift the ban. But now that Citrin has profiteered from the ban, the plan being lifted is exactly what he does NOT want. The fact that trade is now allowed is antithetical to what Citrin's plan relied upon, meaning by allowing Citrin to keep going, he nearly guarantees that he won't keep going. Others will, for sure, but this is specifically targetted at Citrin. This is really smart.

“Until everyone knew Italians were cooler than the government” is such a funny line. This film has so much charm, I love it :D

Principal: "You're a good kid.. somewhere in there." This is incredibly good writing.

This being so underrated should be illegal

I cannot believe this whole thing was only 4 minutes long, I feel like I just watched the pilot episode of a lost animated series, like it packs just THAT much storytelling into such a short window. Absolutely incredible work 👏

1:54 love hows the goons, cops and politicians have school counterparts haha :)

It is simply CRIMINAL how few views this has. I haven't seen classic quality like this in a LONG time. Reminds me of that old Fillmore cartoon. This is really outstanding! I hope you all continue to make art, you all clearly have immense vision and talent, and I hope your creativity will reach tons more people, and bring out creativity in them as well. Seriously stellar stuff!

I love how you did an animation about silly bands. I thought people had forgotten that silly bands ever existed

This gives me OK KO vibes

Staff members being in on it killed me lol

I love this. In my headcanon, he's defeated by the fact that the principal's daughter ultimately agrees with her father's decision. He can't push this any further to get outside of their good graces.

This is such a good reminder that student animations will always be the cutting edge of film

i love when youtube shows me a random student animation project, they're always so fun

THIS IS SO COOL!!! THE ART STYLE IS AWESOME AND ALL OF THE CHARACTERS HAVE SUCH FUN EXPRESSIONS AND MOVEMENTS!! IM GLAD SOMEONE IS TAKING A STAND FOR THEM SILLY BANDZ!!

I can't believe silly bandz are a thing again. Wild

this feels like one of those mini shows that used to air on cartoon network this amazing

The country of Italy and the Prohibition exist in this universe which poses the same conundrum as Cars universe. Anyway i was just babbling to boost the algorithm. This short film has great characters, great writing and great animations. Absolute 5/7

This is prolly one of the gᵣₒₒᵥᵢₑₛₜ of the bunch of student films i've ever seen- MAJOR chowder and a late saturday mornin' show kinda-vibes 🌴