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Berardini spent... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-indie-animated-horror-short-about-parenthood-is-incredible-ramsonp7g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rAmsOnP7G.png og:image:alt: This Indie Animated Horror Short About Parenthood Is Incredible og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This Indie Animated Horror Short About Parenthood Is Incredible **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Monitor is a two-minute indie animated horror short by Michael Berardini that opened this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Berardini spent a year and a half making it in Blender, which he taught himself along the way. Music was composed by Batu Sener, with sound design by Jérémy Ben Ammar. The film explores fears of early parenthood, and Berardini, a father of two, says no generative AI was used: 'the end product is not the point, art is about the process.' ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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