CRACKED: Animated Short Film 

Creators: Kyle Matthew Collantes Sophia Jane Talastas Animation Students

I knew someone who was treated like a “Golden Child”, poor guy after finally leaving high school faced a bitter cold reality that his gift was nothing but a mere illusion created by his parents and the school. I heard from my friend he fell into a bad depression, alcohol and drug abuse then disappeared from everyone’s lives, stopped contacting his friends and never heard from him again. He was really talented but was overly praised, put on a pedestal every day of his life, feel bad since he watched his other two friends succeed only for him to fall behind

This is amazing! I know what’s it like to try to be perfect. But really… No one’s perfect. We’re humans, everyone makes mistakes. Edit: Hey not trying to be rude I’m enjoying your replies but I don’t really like when my comments have too many replies it’s just I have social anxiety and I prefer if I had 1 or 3 replies I’m not trying to be rude just letting you know.

For humanity, imperfections/abnormality is perfection/normal. Really, they both cancel each other out.

As a Gifted Kid who’s suffered with Gifted Kid Burnout, this is incredibly relatable to me. It all starts staying up late, then having trouble paying attention because you’re tired, then seeing a bad test result and that taking a big hit on your self esteem, so you try to push harder but you keep on failing. I remember struggling to keep myself awake in class because I was so tired. I’m happy you made this amazing animation and I can connect to it a lot.

I looked up the meanings of the names of Faccia and Hannan out of curiosity, turns out Faccia means "Face" and Hannan means compassionate, I really like the name choices because it describes the characters! (Faccia has a cracked face, while Hannan showed empathy for Faccia)

I wish parents would see this, they need to understand the pressure alot of today's kids are facing

As someone who has lived and experienced what Faccia and Hannan have, I applaud the creator! 🥰 Marvelous job!!! 👏🏻

Its not the end once you grow up youl learn from your family mistakes and correct them by giving your future children love and support and not treating them like objects.

I'm happy when my children succeed, but I'm not upset when they don't. Ultimately I just want to see them happy. For me this is the main thing ❤

If you liked this, try "twins in paradise" (about perfection pressure effects). Or "stupid dinner" (about feeling like an imposter all the time) from VEWN.

This film…I just got recommended this and now, now I feel like I can keep going, I’ve been struggling with this perfectionism and I believe I started developing Atychiphobia the fear of failure and turning it into a film, this film may be new but it deserves a reward, this gave me a Will to keep making my film and maybe people will notice it I also really hope you get an award for it

You got me “cracked up”! But this film was beautiful and very well made and I really enjoyed it

No one is perfect. You're brave, kind, smart and funny. Just embrace your imperfect self.

My dad just ignores when I get all A's and any accomplishments I have

Once that first crack appears, if not treated properly, it will grow until you shatter.

If anyone was perfect there'd be nothing to look forward to, no reason to wake up in the morning and doomed to stagnation. Evolution would stop, you've proven beyond any challenge and there's nothing you don't already know.

Thank you very much again for watching everyone. We appreciate the feedbacks and reactions.

My mom said to me “GO DO YOUR FFFFFFUCKING HOMEWORK” like bro I was like 7 years old I didn’t even know how to multiply 😂😂😂

Instead of giving her Daughter sympathy the Mom got mad at her

This was... so beautiful to watch. I wanted to cry at the end.

Am I the only one who chose themselves and not some none-existent perfection since childhood?

Parents only understand When it's too late 😞💔

To be perfect is to be flawed

i love your animation! your story comes across flawlessly showing the awareness and the burden of perfectionism.Keep up the good work and if u mess up remember nobodys perfect😁

Too much pressure and not enough fun. 😢

woah woah I don't expect it's gonna be this dark

Man if I was in this universe I'd look like a 250 year old porcelain doll that's sat in an attic or been thrown out a moving car 50 times.

Damn.... This story told that almost all children experience this......

Man always fall in love with indie animation film, story just always simple but really nice.

I wish more people realized this.

wow ! There are many parents who put pressure on their children just for the sake of studying and winning a passport just for the sake of fame or reputation Also, an intelligent child who suffers from resentment towards his parents may fall ill due to fatigue or become psychologically ill due to the pressure and threats he receives from his parents. Also, if this intelligent child loses his grade or fails, he will receive a lot of trouble from his parents For example, parents say things that hurt feelings, hit their child, or put pressure on a child more than before, and because of all of this, the child can become crazy and do abnormal things or fall into depression and commit suicide. There are also parents who prefer their intelligent child over their less intelligent child, and this makes the less intelligent child lose self-confidence and He feels that he is a stranger to people or that he has no benefit in this world, and sometimes parents are very cruel to a less intelligent child and harm him psychologically and physically A less intelligent child can be so sad that he falls into depression and commits suicide .I hope this misfortune ends and they leave their children comfortable and happy

It would be relatable detail if the mother appears to be secretly cracked too

Can we all agree how relatable this is?

It’s good to achieve but when you try to be perfect you’re just gonna crash and burn.

So cute! I almost cried!! 😢😢💗💗

gotta love the animal sim music 😂

this is relatable and i really enjoyed the storytelling. more ppl need to be understanding and not push so hard

AWWW THIS IS SO CUTE 😭

If i could change one thing about this, it would be the mother removing her makeup and showing her daughter she had cracks too. That it was ok not to be perfect.

This is amazin’,I really luv this film,is break me heart how ppl put a lot of pressure of younger souls when minors deserve 2 bee children n’ make mistake 2 learn that 2 get success we have 2 fail cause nu body is perfect n’ we all make mistakes n’ that oki…nu body deserve 2 treat badly,compare others ppl or put pressure just because 2 bee a “better” or bee “intelligent”

i know what it's like to try to be perfect and fail miserably, my family wasn't the most loving and because of that, even when i try to be nice as possible, i slip and say something that deeply hurts others, my grades have not been as good as i want them too. But i have to go on regardless because that's just how life is.

Couldn’t believe how heartless the mother was wanting the daughter to be perfect and not letting her have a life. You could feel the emotions.

You made me cry. This is beautiful!

As I watched I noticed it just relates to me I try and be perfect but realize I am not,realizing everyone is not perfect.

The thing the word prefect isn’t really a word, it’s more of a want that only some have. Prefect is just a unrealistic goal no human will ever reach; no one will ever be strong enough, no one will ever be pretty enough, only things that could ever reach that is nature because nature makes it imperfections, such as humans, into great things to what we are!

IT MADE ME CRY!!!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Looked adorable!

I love it!!!!! 8 minute animations are hard!! These are Lovely

Why'd u have 2 me me cry bro *Sobs uncontrollably*

This almost made me cry, I am exactly like the girl, except the mom part. I press myself.

The title made me think the film would be about drug addiction lol.

This was awesome!!!

The wah parents destroy a child's self-esteem is the worst.

Oh, so cuuuute! Amazing messege

this was all done by two people, I'm very impressed! the message comes across clearly and everything as well. excellent job!!

This was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes. Cracked is going straight to my touching videos folder, I love the animation Cracked

That was the saddest story I even cried watching this 🥹

Wow what year are you all? This is great! Very emotional.

Yeah i get this... growing up, i was expected to get A's in everything and even if i did, i was never praised for it. My family considered that to be "standard" or "average". The only time my report card received attention was when i got a B... then it was "what did you do wrong?" "Why weren't you paying attention? "put your video games down and study". It all lead to me having a very warped sense of self worth later down the line - parents really need to think about how their expectations affect their children...

That was amazing! Beautiful message, great animation, just shows that even if you don’t meet up to everyone’s standards, it doesn’t mean you’re a failure. This was beautiful.

This is so amazing! ❤

"There's no such thing as perfect. You're beautiful as you are, Courage. With all your imperfections, you can do anything."

This made me Cry, This is Awesome!

Who actually is behind this? The credits only say whatever music library they used!

To be honest, this video is literally golden because you can notice how they worked on the shades, the light, and the well written story that they made into a simple video that children can see and learn about mental health it's truly impressive how they putted every detail in this video it's complicated yet simple at the same time , great jop (o⌒∇⌒o)

If you aren't perfect..its alright you don't have to be perfect.. your beautiful just the way you are!❤

This is best animation I have seen I even cried while watching❤..

This is beautiful

I cried😢

I cried a lot while watching this :((

This was beautiful

That made my day gray... the notes of that short film just made me feel gray.. :c

This is great I know exactly what it’s like to try and be perfect but no matter how hard you try you’ll never be perfect but that’s life ❤

Work of art❤

aw man i wish my father was like this, hes just excpecting me to do stuff perfectly, when its possible for me to either not really do the thing perfectly or make a mistake. maybe because my father is too drunk, i sometimes talk about my mother about that and we need to make something to make my father stop yelling for not being perfect and drinking alcohol almost everyday :(

This is amazing!

People aren't perfect and so is the animation

Hey, very interesting short. I wanna say that your animation it's kinda good, I'm sure you will improve a lot in some time!

An apologizing parent. How rare.

I hate parents who put kids on pedestals, like they think doing that is- praise might be good for some occasions but not 24/7. I really don't like being praised because it just feels wrong.

Bruh, I don't know if it's because of how I was raised but at 7:41 I thought he was going to slap his daughter :v

5:15 this was so smooth

Did anyone else cry or is that just me 😢

The people who cried from this story ⬇

wow this is amazing

Is this made with flipaclip?

No one is perfect in this world to be considered beautiful, flaws is what makes someone beautiful and unique

Very well done how did you make this and do you take request because I had an idea for another you can make.?

Beautifully done

So true💔

i cant read the title without thinking of fortnite memes 💀

looks good

This is kinda sad almost made me cry 😢but still it teaches everyone that not everything must be perfect 😊

This reminds me of the one cat animation where a cats skin starts cracking like a infection and their family catches it too and they all pass sadly

Ayos pala po to, maganda ang animation, nagustohan ko to 🎉🎉

I almost cried because of this 😭❤️‍🩹

Kids at China be like 😢

I love this so much. You've done a very good job.

I wanna show this to my mom...but nvm