I’m work­ing on a short story about dif­fer­ent per­spect­ives over a long period of time at the moment, as was boun­cing around the inter­webs for inspir­a­tion when I came across this little gem from the 2003 Academy Awards for short films. It didn’t win, but it clearly deserved the nomination.

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There’s a higher res­ol­u­tion ver­sion (def­in­itely recom­men­ded for some of the details in the anim­a­tion) avail­able too.