Art doesn't need to be explained, nor does it need to have a single clear meaning. However... this short has all the clues you need to understand the context. From the opening scenes we can learn of Bibo's 10,000 year lifespan, the upcoming war and the problem of "Steamdog A6" models attacking real dogs. Bibo was designed to serve - without people to serve he appears to have no purpose. He is also built to love - which means without people he is lonely. Humanity is already on the brink and facing many threats, and poor Bibo is set to outlive the humans. But, that's just what we're conditioned to see here - it is certainly not all there is to see... Bibo's desperate need to serve, even to the end - is no different from the human drive to build homes, collect pretty objects and procreate. All meaning in life is abstract,and emergent, arising from what we are and what innate drives we were created with. We each find subjective meaning in our actions... humans... cockroaches... steamdogs... Bibo. So, whilst we might look at Bibos extended life and consider it meaningless in the absence of us humans - merely some hollow echo of a past meaning. In truth, we're ALL just following patterns laid down in our very design. Bibo is finding purpose in his life... and his endless chore is no less meaningful than the strange hamster wheels we put ourselves on. This is a small corner of a world, where life and derived meaning continues as it must. Steam or otherwise, we are each products of impulse and design. I may be looking too deep, but this is where this short takes me. I see life and meaning here... certainly no less emptiness and futility than there had always been. Just my 2c _(as adjusted for inflation)_

I just watched it for the second time. This time stopping to read the newspaper clippings. and, being aware of what the end story was, it was even sadder the second time around. In the newspaper article, talking about the steam engine "that may run forever", the chief engineer says that Bibo will still be around even when the rest of us aren't.

A robot that loves children and adults. Helps where it can. Thinks. Learns. Fixes things right on the spot. Signs autographs, "takes pictures with children". The police love him. It serves ice cream at the same corner every day. They all call him the ice cream man. War. Everybody dies. Ice cream man is lonely. Rebuilds a little corner of its world. Builds three robots that look like the children he once knew. They break down occasionally. He fixes them....the end.

Oh my God, that's heart-wrenching! 😢How sad for the poor Bibo, he's left all alone in the midst of nothing. Beautifully done!

This short film has more character development than most of Disney's Star Wars movies, especially T.L.J.

Good story. All post- apocalypse, yes? The headlines were old and Bibo figured a way to fulfill his programming including, customer maintenance even when his original customers were Dust. The living girl on his knee is from a time when "he thought he was" a "dad". Endless mundanity at the end of the world is f*cking bleak. Bravo!!

I like that old style sci-fi very much! More please!

The Head line on the news paper clipping at @:35 explains it all. The poor sad robot is the only survivor of a war.

This one was dustier than most.

So the headlines were correct and the robots led to the end of the world and all that is left is a robot ice cream vendor who builds and maintains his own animatronic customers so he can continue serving his function in the one small remaining corner of the world. That's pretty damn bleak, but I guess there is still ice cream.

That robot ran out ice cream a long time ago 😖

fantastic animation... attention to detail

Beautifully done

This is a Exquisite sequential to the essentials of loneliness. Oh how I do wish there was one way, for me to learn the piano in the beginning to play.

Stunning and sad.

WHERE can I get a copy of this piano misic?????

Very well done! Poor lonely Bibo!

What a great atmospheric piece--well worth the watch!

10000 years warranty, I’m sure that Bibo is a product of Winrar.

Complex to say the least...Robots mourning the loss of humans in a tragic portrayal as the end of AI comes to the realization that it cannot recreate its Master....Humans....Did I get that right Anton?

Perspective. It changes everything.

OMG!!! Absolutely amazing 😳 Off the charts graphics, and beautiful story, well done!!

Really I love this video I love it

The CGI in this masterpiece is absolutely brilliant. In the style of the "Fallout" video games. (The good ones, anyway.. 1,2,3,4 & NV) Sort of a "steampunk art deco".

Incredible details. And not just that. Correct details that corresponds to the equivalent details in reality. That is impressive, and I am very picky about things like this.

excellent film

Good gosh! You people at DUST are subtle, but you didn't fool me this time! Beautifully done.

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that was very nice.a lot of story in a short time.subtle but complex, like whipped cream made with moose milk....

Beautiful animation. Having done CGI, I can tell you, this was a huge effort. Little details, like when he's pushing the cart, and it hits a low grate in the sidewalk are very well done! The plot was somewhat confusing, but here's my take on it: At first I thought he goes to his job every day, selling ice cream to 3 children (at 8:00 in the morning for some reason). Then the little girl gets injured (but he can only perceive it as 'she stopped working'). He takes her body back to his house and 'fixes her', and we see the picture of her sitting on his knee, indicating that she's fine, and can keep having ice cream for breakfast. But after seeing the end, it seems he goes to his job every day, selling ice cream to 3 ROBOT children (at 8:00 in the morning for some reason). Then the little girl DOES stop working, because she's broken. He takes her back to his house and 'fixes her', and we see the picture of her sitting on his knee, indicating that they're all insane robots who eat ice cream for breakfast. I assume he built the robot children after the world was destroyed, to give his life meaning. Or maybe because he needed someone to eat his leftover ice cream...

Pulls you in, and then makes you a part of it. A charmer.

It kinda make one feel bad for him, poor robot. ;)

Grate film as always makes you think

Please--where can I buy this piano intro? Anyone?

Brillant and Beautiful!

Fabulous animation, thanks for sharing

Great job.

These are amazing and inspiring story’s. Bless you all

Excellent work

Beautiful.

Oh man, so sad and bleak.....But very well made video.

sooooo good! deep message!

MY DADS NAME IS BIBO!

very good.

Great

Nicely done...

why don't you make a long film, I think your work is very good

Sad😢😢😢😢

The ten thousand year robot.

I watched this at school

A steam engine with a 10,000 year warranty? Impressive. :)

I thought the graphics were good, the story leads one to wonder. I love ice cream.

A bit predictable but well made and nice. Reminded me of "Gris", the game.

Where did he get the firewood?

This is a nice robot animation

A sadder version of wall e

Beautiful.. okay so did he finally find a friend then at the end of time with that little girl robot? I think that's what happened. I will guess that for me for a happy ending I was really depressed watching this.. I hope he has a friend now..but I didn't see her at the end but hopefully one day he can fix her? Idk..ugh..😫🤖👧🏼

Nice adaptation of The Dairy-Cart Horse, a poignant story passed down from the 19th century, probably grounded in a real event somewhere. It explores how intention, function, and purpose can be separate things, but each can still have its own value. The original story would make a good short film of its own, actually, but it isn't really sci-fi.

Animation was good it talked to you with out saying a word

BIBO VERY GOOD

It shares the same audio at the start has JT machinima's Titanfall 2 rap

Relaxing, think I'll leave it at that.

Well done, thought provoking & poignant.

Why? Nearly all sci- fi short films ir other short films have negative contents or no or a bad ending! Are all makers depressive? I cannot understand how this will attract people to watch more short films!

That's kinda sad. Still, I would think Bibo would have the time to build a spaceship or a vehicle so he/she/e can move on.

It's kind of like an animation short film

I really enjoy the robot clips. Maybe it the human characteristic they portray in the clips. A different quick film has two motorized devices on a planet. Trying to find areas to test bean sport growth. Its really good..

This is still a pretty nice robot video

To nas czeka, zostanie po nas tylko sztuczna inteligencja!

molto bello...atmosfera carica di tristezza e speranza ..😢

Owesome creation good job all the best

Reminds me of Waiting for Godot

Red's cousin robot. No wasted views. Not sure how long he can hang on... Getting less possible to find good videos at Dust... apparently I've watched them all :(

is this a steampunk world?

It Looks Like the animatoon of Blue Sky’s Robots

Tutti fruiti please!

I don't know. I just fell sad.

Beautiful thanks.

Steam and gears -- life is good; well . . . almost.

Nice

so sad :(

Wonder where the robot cow is to supply the cream and the robot cone maker?

This was a bit depressing.

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Beautiful & poignant

So sad

When i am in the age of 70 year..me and my Children's

Keep posting nice

4:23 wtf

This video may help u learned something

Very sad.

A lot of work went into it, and it was beautifully done. But the story just didn't interest me, despite the artistry put into it.

Ice cream robot is depressed as hell

It’ll be a big let down for Dust if us humans don’t all end up dead somehow.

Thank you, a fine vignette. Too subtle for some viewers it seems, their loss.

Bilbo.

Can somebody explain me that short film, cuz I don't understand it.

Captions were unnecessary in a piece with no dialogue, and were overly-simplistic and intrusive.

10.000 year first sence

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