This MUST be turned into a full length movie. AWESOME!!

If a game were to be made of this .... I wouldn’t stop playing it ! The graphics and the environment ruins are just on point .

Your cinematic angles and tracks are really top notch. Feels like a real camera on a real rig in a real high budget motion picture. Wish you all the best.

Now that's some heavy work, the screenplay, chase, climax, everything was extraordinary, hats off to the director.

This has been my favorite short film for the last 4 years. Glad to see it's going to be a feature!

3:01 The noise of the engine firing off on the drone is insane!

It's been 4 years since i still wait for part 2...i love that if some of this animations can turn in a series of episodes theyr just way better than an actual movie... Imagine putting the effort to make a video in an 8-10 min one

Init funny how everyone just naturally loves post-apocalyptic themed things😂 like this overgrown, ruined, abandoned feel?

If they would make this into a movie Keanu Reeves would be perfect for this role.

Perhaps others have pointed this out before, but I just noticed it. The motorcycle has a headlight, but the rider doesn't use it in the tunnel. Perhaps he doesn't need to. It's clear that he's been enhanced, genetically or with technological implants. Perhaps he can see in the dark. That would be a useful survival trait in this post-apocalyptic world.

Just, wow; the scenery is amazing, and the motion could easily be mistaken for live-action! Superb work!

If you freeze-frame the shot in which the transparent tablet computer is displaying records from the Haven NanoSystems event logs, you can read three of the messages. I transcribed them. Here's what they say: --- [Message 211] SUBJECT: VIRUS IMPLANTED PROJECT: GLOVE VIRUS STRAIN SEEMS TO HAVE GRAFTED TO SENSORY SYSTEM. SOME ANOMOLIES [sic] ARE SHOWING. RESOLUTION IS EXCELLENT. SUBJECT APPEARS TO BE HEALING RAPIDLY, SUGGESTING VIRUS IS WORKING AS DESIGNED. [Attached are two photos. One is a close-up of the back of a human hand, with three parallel lines over the knuckles that appear to be incisions. The other is a microscope view of whitish blob that could be a virus.] --- [Message 212] SUBJECT: TEST SUBJECT DECEASED/VIRUS THRIVING ALERT: CONTAINMENT IS NECESSARY SUBJECT'S INFECTION SPREAD TO NERVOUS SYSTEM. VIRUS OVERTAKING LIVING TISSUE. BIO-BALANCE NOT ACHIEVED. ALTHOUGH SUBJECT IS NO LONGER LIVING, VIRUS REMAINS ALIVE. SMALL EXPOSURE TO MEDICAL STAFF. CONTAINMENT IS UNDER WAY. [One photo, showing several people in hazmat suits.] --- [Message 213] SUBJECT: VIRUS CONTAINMENT INEFFECTIVE ALERT: QUARANTINE PUT INTO AFFECT [sic] HAVEN RESEARCH FACILITY IS SHUT DOWN. 20 MILE RADIUS QUARANTINED. CAUSE OF VIRUS SPREAD UNKNOWN. LOCATION OF FACILITY REMOVED FROM ALL DATABASES. SECURITY CLEARANCE 9 ONLY HAVE LONG/LAT COORDINATES. DO NOT APPROACH WITHOUT PROPER HAZMAT. [One image, with caption reading HAVEN FACILTY [sic] B UNDER QUARANTINE. The image is not a photo, but a map showing lakes and roads. A location is marked with a red dot, surrounded by a much larger pink circle (the quarantine zone?)] --- After Message 213, the computer displays the following information: HAVEN RESEARCH FACILITY B UNDER QUARANTINE LATITUDE: 29.473677 LONGITUDE: -81.581383 I checked Google Maps, and that location is in the middle of Como Lake, which is near Pomona Park, Florida. The map displayed with Message 213 appears to match that area, although the red dot is actually in a smaller lake about half a mile northwest of Como Lake. The display switches rapidly from one message to the next, but a box in the upper right corner remains static. The information there is hard to make out, but it appears to read as follows: BAT: 0% LINK: NONE MEM: 87% COMM: RUIN AD DT: 10/28/80 ID: 0P0881JB Pomona Park is a small rural town with a population of about 900 people. Google Street View shows no multistory buildings at all -- certainly not the skyscrapers shown in the opening shots of the film. However, the DT: 10/28/80 suggests that the film takes place no earlier than the year 2080, and possibly much later. The opening shots may depict a city that doesn't even exist today. Alternate theory: The event logs refer to Haven Facility B. Perhaps the skyscraper in the city ruins is Haven Facility A, and Haven Facility B is a lab located near Pomona Park, Florida. The missiles shown in the film appear to be based on the Lockheed Martin Multiple Kill Vehicle. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/hHNqa62biIWex30.html UPDATE: One of the other commenters accused me of making all of this up. I only wish I were that creative, but it's all there in the video. In case someone else has doubts, I've captured the frames in question. You can see them here: imgur.com/a/deaZnLR UPDATE 2: It's now October 2021. Over two years have passed since I posted my analysis. This week, my phone notified me that I had missed a call from Pomona Park, Florida. (Screen capture: imgur.com/a/SwphARh ) The caller did not leave voicemail, and they didn't call back. I assume that they were trying to sell me an extended warranty for my car, but I suppose it could have been a warning from someone at Haven Nanosystems. I guess I'll never know for sure.

It's sad that a 8 min clip is better than a 2 1/2 hr movie from Hollywood

This is a master peace that aired 10 years ago if not more... And it still holds on quite well!

Omg just found this on my recommended and remembered I've watched this before in primary school! We had to write a short story from this clip and my friends and I loved it. I can't believe I stumbled upon it 3, 4 years later!

Great job! The guy's baseball cap must have been glued to his head. That's the only way he wouldn't loose it while riding the bike at that speed.

The most impressive of all in this clip is the fact his cap did not fall off...

Even after 8-years the short still looks amazing

TOO GOOD MAN ! His face..wouldve been good to see. he's saving whats left of the human race in the future. Im 66 yrs and could watch hours of this chase. WELL DONE !

I am writing this while watching: Right off the bat, the animation is stunning, the way you portray the ruined city is top rate. I also like how the main character is behaving in such a way as to make the view truly believe that this world he is in is real and he has had to deal with it for a long time. Great work on the weapons, I like how that one grenade from the character failed to work the first time he tried to activate it, like faulty machinery; the contrast of the machine`s weapons working perfectly really set this whole scene on fire! On a scale of one to ten: 9 1⁄2

PLS I WANT A GAME LIKE THIS.

Robotic drones can fly with incredible precision to follow their target through anything. Using tiny variations in the power of their thrusters to maintain position is no problem. For some reason they can't hit him when they fire their weapons. Big drone can follow him anywhere, but the incredibly simple programming it would take to actually hit him with one bullet, much less a few hundred tries was apparently just left out for no reason at all.

0:53 Love this moment 0:53 Love this moment 0:53 Love this moment

I'am Legend meets Terminator....

WOW! That was awesome - enjoyed every second of it. If tech graphics have come this far in the last decade, imagine 10 years from now. Probably won't be able to distinguish between virtual and reality anymore.

ATTENTION 20th CENTURY FOX: Make the dang movie! (or even a series) =D I want more. A LOT more

The greed of the bullets and fast guns are no match for the man on his bike with heart. Great fuckin story. WOW

Please continue it.This was pretty awesome

I really like the pulsed rockets on the drones. I worked with them IRL, and it's cool to see someone apply that concept in media.

That its the smoothest post apocalyptic highway he could find, very convenient

I am an engineering student and I got to say, those rockets that followed the mc can be really made theoretically. I don't know if those lasers could be made by the way those missiles fly can be created irl, just like thrusters of rockets in space used to correct trajectory we can make short bursts of energy using the recently made ion particle accelerator( all of this is just a guess), anyways well done to the guy who thought of this design.

Alternate title: guy on motorcycle has plot armor. Also he gets chased by killer robot hummingbirds

Besides everything that has already been said, those pulse-jet drone things were awesome and sounded great!

Человек побеждает всегда!Отличный фильм!

The sound design is completely unreal , wow just amazing

most thrilling animation I have ever seen !! The scene when bike enters the dark tunnel and dodges car scrap is really takes you by surprise !!

5:50 That scene reminds me the scene where John Wick get chased by mens in motorcycles and in a moment they start to get out their swords to kill him

The main character is just a schoolboy’s dream. Cap, mask, hacking superpowers, sword and bike.

Its such an accurate view of how fast and complete mother nature takes over what we built, in time it'll be like it was never here.

Great job Wes! Would love to see the feature length film!

the days gone+I'm legend+Terminator Salvation= Moto Gp 2059.

We need fewer cliches. A motorcycle chase. An aerial machine that looks like some kind of bug. Guns that miss their target. At least there were no glowing eyes. And that sword is nifty. I need one of those.

Yo imagine if there was a full length animated movie that looked this good!!! all these short films are great but this CGI is next level O_O

At 4:01 "CAMERON FYW". I see what you did there! Terminator 2 vibe is strong in this one.

Very good indeed. There was a tonne of work there, well done. I liked the orbital kinetic weapon systems as weapon drones, nice touch.

Bro took the whole 3d animation to next level 💀

The moto bike part was epic.....2023

Amazing animation, design, comp... Everything!

this was very well done and thought out. the drone designs were amazing! the way the thrusters keep it stabilized with more "flame" thrust visible underneath made complete sense and are totally believable!! I've seen to many cgi designs that look cool but make no sense, so this was very refreshing

The detail just blows me away.

POV: Animated Short Film❎ My Every Night Dream✅

It's a pity that this project was never continued, it was just a promotional video

The attention to the detail is insanely good.

The fact that this is 7 years old is next level impressive. 🫂

have seen this animation many times having been sent to me by a friend in New Zealand...i still find it amazing

WOW! CANT BELIEVE THAT ONE OF THE BIG FOUR HAVEN’T MADE THIS A FULL FEATURE!-Crossfield.

Great work! Amazing! Well done to all the CGI artists and animators!

*Tem a continuação? Esse Short Film é o melhor que já vi quero a continuação. Parabéns pelo o bom trabalho*

The motorcycle scene was on point sick bike too EXHAUSTs coming from the back on on side near legs. . The guys weapon o choice a sword this was super sick

The fact they thought of making the fender bounce was a nice touch.

To me, it does look a lot like a Terminator: Salvation wannabe, but I can see a few Deus Ex references in there, I.E the electric sword he drew could have been inspired by the nano-blade. So personally, I love it. Can wait to see the feature (thought I think they should make the bad guys aliens instead of skynet-like things)!

This really looks like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

"Walk softly and carry a Barrett .50 Cal" -- Post-Apocalyptic Words to Live By.

Still here in 2023. This is 🔥.

I already saw this animation years ago in an attraction of a themed park called the Futuroscope in France. I was in a seat that moves on a 3D axis, I could feel the same vibrations as in the animation and frankly, I felt at the bottom of my guts and stomac the same feeling when I watch this video now as when I climbed on the seat, which was besides the first time I'm on one of these seats.

Wow! The flying vessel is from CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS?? “Hasta la vista!“

The bike he was on looked just like a Suzuki B King which is cooler than just making some futuristic bike, this was well worth the watch, very nice work!

Oh! rockets flying slower than a motorcyclist!

Just having some fun with the story: Now, let's see if there's something I can trade for food in the village, he thought. But the first thing to catch his eye wasn't something the folks back home would consider worth anything, just some piece of that damn technology that brought mankind to the edge of extinction. There hadn't been a single successful birth in the last fifteen years... Something made him pick up the device that had miraculously survived the fall. It was one of those InfoPads that were so common before the downfall. He hesitaded before activating it, knowing it would attract a Guard Drone. His curiosity was larger than his fear of some rusty old drones though. He felt the tingling sensation as the NeuroNet activated, which in turn triggered the startup sequence of the Pad. Once the decryption was complete, all he could see was that name: "HAVEN RESEARCH FACILITY B". Oh, the NeuroNet of course pulled the rest of the info off the Pad and into his brain as usual, but he _consciously_ only noticed the name of that place, that everybody said was just a stupid tale to keep people's hopes up. Suddenly he could sense something, or maybe it was the active NeuroNet reacting to the approaching remains of technology as it had been. He rushed to his bike, an almost ancient classic he had found in a museum somewhere. The monstrous engine still looked like the old V2 it had been, but since Controlled Explosion Engines had been forbidden for half a century, some creative museum tech had modified the internals to more modern standards, thus making it usable in parades and such. Too bad the sound module was damaged and stuck in I4 mode... not that it mattered, the engine itself was fully functional. He jumped onto his bike and took off into the labyrinth of flood canals in an attempt to shake off that drone. Haven Research Facility B. This was important. This could save not only his village, but mankind as a whole. They could take back control of those nanobots. They could start reproduce. They could start inhabit the cities again. ...And we could disable those pesky drones, he thought, as it launched its "rattlers".

Congrats at the getting the full length movie goin' guys! I think this will be the next Maze Runner series. I'll be sure to watch! I like how there are many different realistic features like the plasma dagger(you can make the same thing at home!).

The CGI is fantastic! It looks like actually streets and vines overgrowth everywhere else

"RUIN" best of sci fi short animated film 2016. ❤

damn humans in the future will be so tall

Didn't lose his hat.

ya'll wore that ivy generator OUT! hehe That opening shot was great and the whole thing was great even if it didn't have a plot or obvious storyline beyond the apocalyptic end of world setting. Cicadas in a movie? I've never heard cicadas in a movie before so huge bonus points for that. I'm sure there are some in SOME movie but I don't ever remember hearing them in one. great job!

I love the fact that a V-twin powered naked motorcycle sounds like a high revving sport bike (inline four) with a hundred gears to switch through and that he is able to maintain that level of control at those speeds despite all the weed growth that would make his bike slide out from underneath him the moment he leans hard.

Starting : Keanu Reeves

The character looks like it wants to tell me to play a mobile sniper game

Человека. Бывает. Енергии На. Руках. Надо. Повышать 🇦🇿

Should this ever be turned into a game - just take my money.

How do they make so fast so many movies ?

Better than most action shots I see in the theater. Well done.

I remember that god-awful live-action re-imagining of a classic 70s superrobot anime by a philippine network, God this is sooo much better.

Wow! Now that's something I'd be willing to risk my health to see in a movie theater in during a pandemic. This is way better than most of the stuff that big budget Hollywood has been able to put out in the last 2 years (for those of you that can't count, that's 1 more than before the pandemic started).

Wes: great short film! Graphics are killer and story line if really good! Can’t wait for the full length movie. Kudos, loved it.

Beautiful video. Amazing attention to details. I loved the MKV's used greatly.

Amazing the story you can tell with 8.5 minutes and not a single shred of dialog.

Congratulations WES BALL for this beautiful electrifying story. Really enjoyed!

that's the most amazing chase seen I've seen outside of a cinema!

Nenhuma palavra supre a magnitude dessa animação parabéns aos criadores simplesmente fantástica já sou um inscrito do canal segura o like

Congratulations WES BALL for this beautiful electrifying story. Really enjoyed!. Great work! Amazing! Well done to all the CGI artists and animators!.

The most incredible cgi ...How these are done I've not the slightest idea ..Truly great design!

We need a movie like this.

Fabulous everyone...wow, I am just amazed at the quality , ingenuity. And talent...thank u...and kudos to you all!

Even after 2 years waiting this animation again , for me it is the best one.

Es un corto excelente, tiene todos los componentes para ser considerado una pieza única en su género: Intriga inicial, expectación cargada de interrogantes, vislumbre de la amenaza, huida precipitada y espectacular y, luego, destrucción posterior de esa amenaza y es entonces la calma y la paz.

Great Short but tell me how to keep my hat on while driving my bike at ludicrous speed haha....staples?

Neo: I know how to ride a motor cycle Morpheus: Show me

A human version of Crazy Frog! Really nice job!!!

this needs to be a game