Kiwi is a kind of bird that couldn’t fly. Dony Permedi made an animation based on kiwi and it’s now very popular on YouTube. It doesn’t win because of the graphic quality, but it wins because of its meaning. This animation tells us that nothing is impossible, as long as you want to achieve it. Of course, you have to work for it too, not just tell yourself you want it and do nothing. The following is the summary of the animation, “Kiwi!”, taken from ISFAT. Not sure who wrote it though.

“Kiwi!” is an animation about a Kiwi – a type of bird that cannot fly, who spends its whole life working towards achieving his dream. The kiwi strived to create the illusion that it was flying over a forest as it soared down through the sky from the top of a cliff. Thus, the kiwi spent what must have been its whole life nailing trees to the side of a cliff. All this, to fulfil its one dream of flying, even though it was technically unable to. There are several powerful messages behind Kiwi, but mainly, it makes you think: no matter how absurd and seemingly out of reach your dreams are, what’s stopping you from achieving them? Kiwi’s had a huge online success, with currently over 1.75 million views and 9000 comments on the online video site ‘YouTube’ in approximately just 3 days. The animation has been recently featured on YouTube and currently ranks in at the #1 favorited video in the arts and animation category of all time. As I’m sure you’ll agree, “Kiwi!” is an inspiration to us all.

And the video of it after the jump.

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