9 (2005 film)

9 is a 2005 computer animated short film created by Shane Acker as a student project at the UCLA Animation Workshop. Tim Burton saw the film and was so impressed by its artistic vision that he went on to produce a featurelength adaptation also titled 9, directed by Acker and distributed by Focus Features. The film was presented at the Indianapolis International Film Festival. It was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short film, but lost to The Moon and the Son An Imagined Conversation, although it did win a Student Academy Award for Best Animation.

In the flashback,searches the ruins with his mentor 5, a oneeyed rag doll. They gather useful bits and pieces and store them in the cloth linings of their own skin. With 9s help,is able to salvage a light bulb and operate it using pieces of wire.gives the functional bulb tofor safekeeping.Almost immediately after,draws the mirrored talisman from inside his chest. It glows green, warning of danger.gives the talisman tothen pushes him into cover. Extending a homemade folding spear,steps out to confront the threat. But the Cat Beast circles behind him and snatches him up with a metal pincer, shearing off his right arm. Though he struggles,can not break free, and the Cat Beast sucks 5s soul out through his mouth using its talisman leavinglifeless. Horrified,escapes in panic, almost giving away his location to the Cat Beast by scraping the light bulb against a rock. ........

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