Tidy Monster

Added: Sep 10, 2007

From: tcmarchant

Duration: 5:1

Divx Version at tcmarchant.com http://www.4mations.tv/tcmarchant The descent into an insane mind of an unseen character. A room is all there is in his world, and we watch as he struggles to keep it tidy. Ultimately, what is happening to the room is up to you.

Channel: Film

Tags: 3d  animation  cgi  drugs  experimental  film  lsd  marchant  monster  room  scary  short  talking  tidy  tim  trippy 

Rating: 4.48 (1599 ratings)    Views: 311043' favoriteCount='2552    Comments: 25

tomsquibz Says:

Oct 22, 2008 - this is amazing. purely amazing. keep em coming! :]

tomsquibz Says:

Oct 22, 2008 - is 'tidy' a metaphor for something?

123spasser123 Says:

Oct 22, 2008 - great stuff!!!

hellmelon666 Says:

Oct 24, 2008 - i have a thought about what the tidy monster actualy is, supposing that what the video portrays is true and our homes are occupied by 'another force' then maybe the tidy monster is an entity that prevents this kind of thing from getting out of control, it also realy resembles submachine in that theres a room and this room is the only space in that region, in the same way the room shatters to reveal... nothing at all, prehaps this is murgrauh talking,

hellmelon666 Says:

Oct 24, 2008 - and another thought , prehaps the end part is what happens when your switching 'places' in the submachine navigating craft and you go missing. IN FACT , that could explain submachines barren and barely has any indications of life at all, OR MAYBE you ARE the tidy monster clearing areas of undesired items , or maybe im just obsessed with the submachine games. any of those. either way this video is amazing, at my school we use quotes as catchphrases, 'this time we make this time we manufacture'

jni34108 Says:

Oct 25, 2008 - I think that the room illustrates our mind and the strange events are our thoughts. When we think strange thoughts we try to think of something else. We try to "TIDY UP." Sometimes we can't "TIDY UP" so our thoughts run rampant and we overload, like in the animation. We loose control.

tomsquibz Says:

Oct 26, 2008 - thats a good interpretation :]

mmmorphinebby Says:

Oct 27, 2008 - this video is pretty whackk

andyrusty Says:

Oct 29, 2008 - how is that anything i mean wtf??

rosyyaoi2 Says:

Oct 30, 2008 - but what could be considered a strange thought?

mixedupkindofguy Says:

Oct 30, 2008 - Very nice video indeed! Could you plese tell me what microphone you used to record the voice over?? Thanks!

jni34108 Says:

Oct 30, 2008 - In the animation, the floating chair represented a strange thought. In reality a strange thought may be anything ranging from thinking of a chair that is able to float to thinking of committing murder. Who knows ? ? ? I suppose strange could be just about anything depending on who you ask.

bobafooz Says:

Nov 9, 2008 - "Ultimately, what is happening to the room is up to you." But surely you had something in mind as to what is happening...?

exhibitAfilms Says:

Nov 10, 2008 - acid trip?

veefwoar Says:

Nov 11, 2008 - I think he means that you can interpret what is happening however you want...because there's isn't a concrete story arc, you are free to overlay whatever interpretations you like...very clever i thought.

shippo72 Says:

Nov 11, 2008 - Maybe it has no interpretations and it was just some guys messing around with drugs, and thought of this.

veefwoar Says:

Nov 11, 2008 - Brilliant! That's exactly how things work in my mind sometimes...just random splinters of meaning and conversations...I'm glad I'm not alone!

veefwoar Says:

Nov 12, 2008 - Maybe...but this kind of work takes months of dedication, concentration and hard work. I seriously doubt that someone messing around with drugs would possess that kind of commitment. Anyway, why is it that when someone comes up with something fresh and original that people have to attribute it to drugs? This guy is talented and hard working. This vid simply wouldn't exist otherwise.

bobafooz Says:

Nov 13, 2008 - I know that. But I'm saying that he must have had an idea as to what is happening, and I want to know what that is.

dotdotdotLOL Says:

Nov 16, 2008 - The tidy monster is an amazing video. IT shows somehting so incredibly human (tidying) become obsesive which turns the human into a monster.The human says that his obsession is okay and ignors things that tell him its not. The "man who keeps it tidy" is so ironic because he is becoming a monster as he claims he is the MAN who keeps it tidy. He says he is incharge of his obsesion but that "that kind of thing just isnt me" (i believe that is what he is saying. ANYWAY I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!

dotdotdotLOL Says:

Nov 16, 2008 - my other comment was just my oppinon on this and one way i have interperted it throgh the many times i've watched this video thanks

shostetter06 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - for some reason i really wish the character wouldn't used a double layered voice when his voice gets deeper... I like the video, but that voice layer is so predictable to create a creep feel that it didn't exactly work, i felt more uncomfortable with just the single voice.

lolwriter Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - I see it as a series of hallucinations(possibly from a psychoactive disorder?) which frighten the speaker and his attempts to tidy them up send him deeper and deeper into fear as he loses control of his mind... probably to regain it again and go through the cycle over and over and over...

skinwalker1731182194 Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - ur a freak

13percentDEPP Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - OCD paranoid schizoid monster... Interesting. Well done!