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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2006
- My Master's Thesis Animation, which I completed while I was at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art, in New York City. Created using Maya, After Effects, and rigged using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios. If you would like to download there is a small version at my website: www.donysanimation.com
The music is orginal and is by Tim Cassell, someone I went to highschool with. The music is available here:
donysanimation.com/01KiwiTheme...
donysanimation.com/02KiwiTheme...
Alot of people have been emailing me asking a whole lot of questions. Maybe you can find some answers here:
www.isfat.com/happyjunk/kiwi.php
Everyone thank you so much for your compliments and kind words!
www.savethekiwi.org.nz
Rate Kiwi! on IMDB!
www.imdb.com/title/tt1051713/ - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
You’re telling me that Kiwi was strong enough to haul all those trees up the side of a mountain yet you think that he died from the fall? Trust me, he’s fine.
Crayonfactory underrated comment
YellowChino Thanks, it only took me ten years to come up with it 😂
YellowChino
you seem to have misspelled pewdiepie
@@nicktran7490 Yes I really have my friend
*pats thyself*
Yeah, that's it..
_"He sacrificed himself for a Dream"_
-Carl Sagan
And I think it was worth it.
@@tristanband4003 :( im sad
@@devanaheer5702 I am too, but I am happy he found the greatest joy afterword.
Griffith: XD
Noooo 😭😭😭😭😭
17 years later and im still crying at this :,(
Dont cry it fulfilled its dream and did what it wanted
He’s fine btw he didn’t die he survived cause he’s a giga had for hauling those trees up the mt
Me too man, me too
맜있다 😊
When I was little, I could never have guessed that a bird that risked death for its dreams would inspire me throughout my life, but today, this little bird and I are almost the same person.
How so?
I mean how have you and the bird became the same person, what happened
@@nathanspencers5803 I think it must be a personal thing for ‘em so they won’t say it
Youre not a bird...
Sendemi aşşağı atladın
Did you fly?
Yes.
What did it cost?
Everything
-"I will die a warrior's death! Stories will be told of this day."
-"Live! And tell those stories yourself."
Lol
Worth it, find what you want and make it happen. God damn inspiration
OH GOD T_T
1k like woohoo but im still sad
16 years later and still none of us want to admit that Kiwi is gone…
True
Gone, but not forgotten
True
This video got so much into my soul, I haven't been able to forget it
Never forgot this
When I first saw this as a kid, I cried cuz "noo the poor kiwi died :("
Seeing this a decade later, it makes me bawl my eyes out cuz of how well a 3 minute animation represents a huge portion of humanity. When we reach a certain point in life, we work day after day, fight hard to survive, all so we can experience those few joyful moments in life that make it all worth it in the end. Every ounce of my respect goes towards this kiwi. It spent its whole life to accomplish its one, true dream, even though it was fully aware that doing so will cost its life.
Exactly. He put everything into achieving what he wanted, including his actual life. It's as badass as you can get.
Dude hes not dead if he can carry all those heavy trees he should be able to withstand a cliff fall
@@user-yf7km5vv1v If you choose to interpret this as if he didn't die, go ahead.
I think it's pretty obvious where the creator went with this.
he's alive, those were tears of joy
He was strong enough to ALONE haul thousands of trees up the mountain, but died to the fall? Nah. He's alive.
He didnt die since he has that much potential
와 이렇게 짧고 아무 말도 안나오는데 여러 생각을 들게 만든다는게 신기하고 대단하다..
키위는 그저 날고 싶었어요 ㅠㅠ
@@halusali_07그리고 땅에 박혀 두개골과 척추가 부러져 끔살당했어요~
@@SangsangTH-cam 나쁜놈아ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
?@@halusali_07
@@halusali_0717년전인데 왜 지금도 보고있죠?
Don't worry he carried a bucket of water with him
a minecraft answer
Minecraft memes...
YAASS QUEEN!
lol
@@stankchez9334 did u just, THATS BASICLY THE ORIGINAL OWO
@@Shadow79XXX YAAASSSS QUUEEEEEEEEEENNN!!!
he didn't die, he had a helmet on. he is totally fine
I mean, it's an aviator's cap but you do you
@@squidbad Obviously you don't understand physics :/
but the wind made his eyes water he didnt cry
Hey it is joke dont read it seriously :D
@@Prod_by_DD clearly he does if he comprehended that lol
17 yrs strong I continue to come back to this video periodically
보고 있으면 항상 마음 한구석이 왠지 모르게 아리고 눈물이 흘러나오는 영상..
Everyone in the comments is trying to rationalize how Kiwi didn't die.
for closure🥲
Defense mechanism, my friend
I didnt, I joined the New Zealand airforce
kind of a shame. not acceoting gus death is a weak mindset that really takes away from the impact (no pun intended) of the animation.
@@RabidlyTaboo and you seem to be that one person who took all of those comments too serious
The Pixar short that never got accepted
This is the comment of the year
it's no a pixar short xd
Because it was too sad.
@@manuelrivera642 r/wooooooooosh
@@manuelrivera642 r/wooooosh
I'll be honest.
I saw this bird for the first time, when I was 10... and cried.
Than I got older came back to it when I was 15...and cried.
Now I am a grown man, a social worker and take care teens with drug addiction, suicidal problems or sexual abuse. Some days after a 24 hour shift, I go back to this video.
When I'm 27 and need to cry to survive.
Thank you little bird for inspiring so many people. To teach us to work hard, archieve your goal, accept ourselfs ,enjoy life...and cry❤
your a good man
May your pain vanish
You dropped this 👑
The last eye drop touches my Heart 😢❤
shaking, crying, vomiting, sliding down the wall, banging my fists on the floor
^ this
Currently shitting and crying in a Chipotle over this 😭
Are you ok?
*poops out bricks and creates a lake of sweat*
Breaks table, destroys all of the house's furniture and breaks plates, punches head on the wall, wall breaks, house destroyed
This video introduced me to depression when I was a kid.
I got introduced to depression by fucking doki doki literature club ,that game introduced me to a whole new world of feeling I've never felt or at least never knew what they were
@@mrguydood9159 OH NO... NO NO NOOOO... JUST MONIKA... JUST MONIKA JUST MONIKA JUST MONIKAAAAAGGH!!!
Me too :,(
TheMainEngineer I watched this when I was like six and I cried every night for a few weeks
Same
2024 and Kiwi's latest adventure still brings a tear to my eye 🥲
This story is a masterpiece.
I saw the video a few years ago and it changed my perspective on life.
Therapist: now when did your depression start?
Me: well I went on TH-cam...
My teacher made me watch this
OOF rip Mia soto
@@TwigEater67 yea he made us watch it for language arts and like we had to write down the theme
He made us watch it 5 times ;-;
Mia Soto Art he made you watch depression 5 TIMES!? NIEN NIEN NIEN
@@sirankleknocker3122 yeah its pretty sad everyone like screamed in my class and i just sat there cuz i already knew he was gonna die
Therapist: So when did your sadness begin?
Me: There was a bird who had a dream
Deathrule 14 I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream
Holy... bro
My older sibling watched this as a child thinking the kiwi was crying from the wind and survived, now she older she finally understood that the kiwi fell Sacrificing their life to accomplish it's dreams while shredding one final tear if happiness knowing they are gonna die : ( ❤❤
See you guys again in 10 years in the recommendation
Imagine a three minute and ten second animation providing a more emotional and tragic character than most movies
Should we hire him?
Might as well
Yep.
and no dialogue either
This was made before I was born and it’s still better than most animations I’ve seen
The history of depressing bird who decided to commit suicidal acts
The irony from the animation meme community.
Well, I think it’s more the story of a bird who wished something so bad he was willing to die for it. In the end, he didn’t cry out of sadness, he cried of joy that his dream was fulfilled. He went out with a BANGER
F for my boi
Thats because him only wanted fly :''(
You mean depressed, right?
Nuggets*
rest in peace kiwi you are showing us that nothing is impossible😢❤
that ending was unexpectedly dark
It’s been 10 years and I am a full grown adult and I still cry like a baby to this...
At least he didn’t die, He’s Strong 💪
it's ok to cry
I am a 7 year old and I don’t cry to this.
Thats what they all say ( they don't Actullay cry )
@@idontwannatalkaboutit8660 yes he did?
Is no one touched by the fact that the kiwi bird possibly spent it's entire life nailing trees to the side of the mountain just to feel a few seconds of happiness?
This is what pisses me off most about these commenters, they just can't seem to understand this.
*****
Exactly.
Do you not realize that is how most of us spend our life? Working towards goals to achieve a "happiness"? Some of us get to fly for a few seconds while the rest end up dying sticking trees on our journey up the mountain.
@@tarunraina1454 I was about to type something similar but you just nailed it (no pun intended)
@@tarunraina1454 true, some deluded people said "results never betray hardwork" my ass
I just remembered this out of nowhere and my heart skipped a beat when i saw it came out 17 years ago lol. I remember watching this right after it was released.
I can't with this story. This actually feels in world when you can not do something, and you actually try, for once before you die that's just heartbreaking😢
Every time I watch this I think it'll hurt less, it never does.
He is strong enough to nail trees on the mountain so he could be alive
Lyric 737 if he/she was alive it would take the entire meaning out of the video. There is a reason a bang is audible when the screen goes black.
@@MrCat-se7ws Think about it if the bird does live then he could just climb back up on the mountain and do it all over again
Lyric 737 He/she doesn’t live though. He/she knows will die at the end that’s why the camera doesn’t show his/her fate.
Lyric 737 in addition, he/she is diving head first into the ground at insane speed just cuz they may have legit body muscle doesn’t mean they can survive a head first impact
Kiwi was so good, they named a fruit after it
I see you everywhere nowadays
Newby Ton and a bird
Glorious Forever it is a bird. It can’t fly.
Newby Ton lol
r/whoosh
first time I watched this is cried my eyes out
fly high little kiwi
17 years..
The animation is actually quite impressive for 2006 TH-cam
Yeah, it's not MSPaint
no, it isnt
Yes, it really is
imean not really, shrek came out in 1945 so this really aint much
Hallykon shrek came out on 1839
That one Minecraft dropper level
Measurer OMG IM NOT THE ONLY ONE
Except its not mc 😂😂😂😥
I WAS THINKINGG THE SAME FREAKIN THING JFPBGKJJSBAVABAHBDKSHSDHKD
Measurer xd
Facts XD
The faint sound of the final collision breaks my heart
This video exists for so long, and here on Brazil we have SUCH A BEAUTYFUL SONG behind this ;-;
Caraca um br kkkkkk
@@vetnesky caraio coe mano huaheuaheuah
No this was not recommended to me.
I decided to cry willingly.
You are anti spiral?
fr 😭 i went straight to the search bar and watched this just to cry
I SEARCHED IT TOO, IM SO MASOQUIST I-
i searched it too
17 years later and this is still a excellent animation
agree
Yeah
for real
Yes
인정 ㅇㅇ
when i was little, i didnt fully understand this.. now a tear drop fell from my eye
9 days till this masterpiece's 18th anniversary
I remember crying for like a solid hour after watching this when I was younger
TheDeviousWolf LITERALLY ME
Bro frrrr , this shit be hitting diff when I was younger
Me too
@@laureniwinski6016 b
Yes I also renember this!!
This is so dark yet so cute.
Just how.
Yeah...
I would not say dark, I would say sad. Dark has a very negative connotation to it. Kiwi wanted to experience flight even if it meant it's death. If you play ddlc or .exe games or watch tokyo Ghoul those are "dark". This is more sad and emotional than dark.
Ever heard of Happy Tree Friends?
Ive had this in my playlist for ages. Still hits home.
This video was 17 Years ago
I remember crying so hard when I watched this when I was younger.
same still crying
I watched this at age 4
Same, I watch this video like every year since the first time I found it.
I feel you 😪
Me too, bro ='(
This guy has been making me cry for 11 years.
Me too, amazing isn't it
Same..
Same 😭
betlogboy3 honestly😭
This is classic TH-cam
Lets make this less violent by saying he landed safely in water and opening up a kiwi flying business which was 0% chance of death or injuries after that a kiwi village appeared and a city after that they ruled the world happily
11 years later and this is still beautiful, amazing, and painful
Black Fire Wolf agreed
Yeap
12*
Cried thinking about this video, cried typing it into the search bar, cried when I hit play, cried the whole video, cried for an hour afterwards
✋🏻🥲
🤣🤣 me to!
same
@linguini boi I was 3 months pregnant at the time 🙃🤣
Ps... Lloraste mucho ._.
Even after 17years, this video has stuck with me ❤
Man i love this ❤
When I first saw this as a kid I cried, as an adult I now understand, a bird that strong to pull up all those trees must have survived that fall.
He didn’t survive. What he did was an unthinkable achievement of being able to fly like the other birds even if it’d cost him his life
the good ending
@@s550takahashi The creator says it's up to interpretation and it's possible the Kiwi survived.
Just keep lying to yourself. It's how we all cope.
its all in the facts, you can be ignorant but the fact is how come a bird that size lift all those threes by itself, there is no way a simple fall ended it @@BlokeOzzie
why we're still here? just to suffer.
@@katbirb5703 you didn't get the joke didn't you?
@@katbirb5703 lmao
This joke is from Metal Gear solid V:the phantom pain when Miller talks to Snake
@@keslexx4040 idc🌚🔪
eVERY NIGHT I CAN FEEL MY LEG
17 years later this animation continues good
after 17 years i still shed a tear when the kiwi does. does this video hit everyone else just as hard?
iron Man: my death is the saddest of all
Kiwi: hold my beer
Hold my hammer* :')
He didn’t die aldough the fall hurt
@@juanignacioarvelourrutia1924 No it definitely died
He really did not die.
“Hold my tree”
When the playful brass turned into a somber music box, I started tearing up.
Something about it just… it just…
My middle school band teacher made the music for this lmao
@@kiano7685 seriusly 🤔
SAME.
Ikr
18 years later it came to my recommendations and after watching it I felt so sad that I couldn’t sleep 😢 I keep thinking about the poor kiwi
Ur telling me this was 17 years ago and is this good animated
Whenever I am reminded of the existence of kiwi birds, I come back and watch this a couple more times. Still hits hard.
Same
i am reminding u of this animation's existence
@@Spekelsboy 🥹
Hits harder than the ground
@@suspicioussand NAHHH THAT WAS JUST FOUL
Fun fact: this was the very first youtube video i ever saw in my life. My sister wanted to show it to our mother, while little me was sitting on her lap. I saw the video and cried. Then i asked my mom why i cried and my mom answered me: "because you have a heart." Still one of the strongest memories my entire life was built on
Your Mum knows how to parent.
SAME!
awwww
i know the person who made this!!
@@TROLLO_DA_GOAT LMFAO
The music at the end haunts me to this day.
the soft thud
2:15 esta parte...😭
Kiwi never dies...
I didn't understand him crying as a kid, I thought he was crying of happiness, I was happy seeing that the Kiwi finally achieved his goal,
Now, i'm here in my room crying because the Kiwi died.
Well he is crying of happiness, because he has finally achieved his dream. His last wish, and he died doing what he loved the most.
@@zaer-ezart id like to think that theres a trampoline at the bottom cause im unpapared for reality
Inverted_Paradox you can hear him hit the ground at the end, god this animation is depressing.
It can't be dead, this beast managed to pull hundreds of trees upside a cliff
Kate Cat I mean, from my perspective, that is what happened. He pulled all those trees so that when he fell, it would look like he’s flying on land like normal. He flapped his wings even though they clearly weren’t flying anywhere. From my point of view, he wanted to feel like he was flying at least once, and managed to do it.
Mission: Find a *2006* comment
just sort by oldest first duh
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 there is no oldest filter
Oh no
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 ha
MISSION FAILED WE'LL GET EM NEXT TIME!
esta animacion nos enseña a que aunque la vida trate de pararnos siempree encontraremos la forma de salir adelante cumpliendo nuestros sueños para que al final poder descanzar en pas ;)
I’m crying on how this was made almost 17 years ago
It's 2018 and i'm still crying for this
Me too 😥
SAME ;0;
Same 💔
Kiwi... 😥
SAME
Damn, having 480p on a youtube video in 2006 is impressive.
Daniel Ayy Probably took him a month to upload.
@@MrDextrator whoa, thanks for reminding me that I posted this
Daniel Ayy you’re welcome, but are you really glad to watch this depression inducing video again?
@@MrDextrator no. Are you?
Daniel Ayy No, thats why I was bamboozled when you said you are thankful for bringing despair in your life.
Guys what makes you think he died? Hey! He's alright. He just closed his eyes and gone ahead!❤️
This is so well-crafted.
"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
Nirvana/Kurt Cobain Fan =)?
Oh i googled it, so you are maybe a Neil Young Fan.
I didnt knew yet, that this sentence is from a Song of him
I'm cold peppa
it's too late george
My dad always says this
Well he died doing what he loved...
Rest in Peace my very dear friend...
but that dirt-ish thump at the end... it scares me..
ho, he is not dead, still he broke most his bones, so now he can not fly or walk c:
(try to sleep well now ^^)
doing?
pretty sure that was the first and only attempt
he didn't die he just fell on a watermelon
Gaby Deleon I love your profile picture
Who in. 2024?
This video/animation was 17 years ago... This gives us to understand even if life gives you difficult difficulties, you always move forward to fulfill your dreams...
-Thank you Kiwi
Let take a moment of silence for the bird who spent his whole life, nailing trees on the sidee of a mountain, just so at the end, he can end his life, just to live his long life dream...
Crackanigle Void thanks men ! Now i understand xD
This wasn’t a very long life tho
Barry Scott okay, “life long” then
@@nonsense4810 why did you use xd ? There's nothing funny about that
Therapist: flying kiwi is not real, he can't hurt you
Flying kiwi: *D E P R E S S I O N*
And please get some more information abbout kiwi's they like wet places that means he might hawe fallen in lake or shit like that
Just gave you the 1000th like. You're welcome.
@@deivisnx if it fell into a lake it would still die
th-cam.com/video/n32wRMQJFJ4/w-d-xo.html
@@yasr5931 you don’t take fall damage in water
The poor man died but he fulfilled his dream and that leaves us a message "if you have a dream, don't give up on it"
Teaching: despite what you try, you can fulfill your dreams despite the bad things that happened, thanks Kiwi 😞😞😭
I was thinking that this was so adorable until he jumped off and it felt as if he was flying. I'm crying.
spoopydumpling same :(
God was cruel when he created Kiwis without wings, I'm sorry but it was rude.. I hope God awards and compensates Kiwis and other flightless cute birds when they go to heaven after their deaths
Baby kiwi is flying high now 😢😢💕
Brenda princesa Lindaa lmao the kiwis had functional wings but their natural habitat had no predators so they had no need to fly, they simply evolved to not need them so their wings became smaller smaller.
Mm
If Kiwi had only considered the bungee cord.
OH NOW YA SAY SOMETHIN
@Kalwik Lensak Bungee cords are not ever that long in the first place.
If you used a cable for a fall that is 10+ seconds, my guess would also be that either the cable snaps and you fall off, or the momentum build up to the moment you stop would push the top and bottom of your body in the direction of the floor and the middle of your body upwards, with such force that you would indeed snap in half. Maybe in one piece, except for your bones that would definitely snap.
All this assuming it's just tied to the middle of your body. Otherwise, another possibility would be that the cable wouldn't go straight down and you'd hit the wall, or you'd go like a pendulum when in the bottom and then hit it anyways.
And if that doesn't happen, I'm sure you'd just die because of the sudden artificial stop at the bottom when the cable finally extends completely, that his body is most likely not built for anyway.
I don't know enough about this but I'm pretty sure there's no way he'd survive that with a bungee cord.
Well that works a lot better than making a pond at the end of the cliff
Sad, wholesome, beautiful as I remember
I could've watched this many years before but TH-cam could just not recommend me this masterpiece
RIP Kiwi
11 Year since he left us...
Kill Me uuuuuuhhhhh hello?
ur profile picture doesn't help me take that in
There was a splash at the end
Kill Me yeah CxD
couch potato 😂
He lived his dream and then died, that is so sad. *cries*
I saw this one. He is one suicidal bird.
*nods* Maybe he didn't know that would happen, but it is still sad.
+Sadness Emotion the bird obviously knew, you can tell by how it closed its eyes and cried
Maybe those were tears of Joy that he lived his dream.
it was tears of joy cause it finally got to live its dream, but it was bittersweet cause that was the last thing he would ever do
This makes me cry so much😖😣🥺🥺😭😭😢😢
Wow, this was one of the first TH-cam videos I watched when I was in middle school. Can't believe its almost 20 years old.
"That's not flying, that's just... Falling with style!"
its not lootboxes its suprise mechanics
*Suicide is badass!*
ISHERWOOD75 “Buzz...You’re flying!”
*faLLinG wIth StYle*
Your pfp is an xbox avatar lol
Where girls cried: chick flick
Where boys cried: fast and furious
Where men cried: minecraft music video
Where gods cried: kiwi!
@@pedrozavala1319 are you sure your not talking to yourself
@@pedrozavala1319 I know what you are, but what is @Crimson Cringe?
when i cried : I LOST MY HORSE (REAL TEARS) - pewdiepie
Tatsooya Suwo This guys stuck in 2015
Pedro Zavala Dude, he's not a mirror.
I get so emotional whenever I watch this masterpiece
How to make me cry in under 5 mins:
I'm pretty sure this is the TH-cam video everyone watched at one point, between the years of 2006-2011.
JulzJulzzJulzzz yeah
I'm surprised I didn't.
yep. Whatched this around 2009
Gamora falling down the giant cliff deleted scene
HHHHHH
how DARE YOU
Not cool, man. Not cool at all.
SMH
HAHAHAHAH
One of the Most Nostalgic animations
This is the youtube video that changed my life