This was an amazing production!
I knew about it when the community was working on it, but never watched it until now. Frankly, just like I feel about some big studio animation industry features, I felt that it wasn't my cup of tea for character design when I saw the promos so that's why I kept a distance, but had always been impressed by the level of the whole project for the time.
Now to finally watch it, I'm amazed at how well it was done. It is an excellent short film and surprising what they were able to do with their resources at the time.
It looks as good or better than some of the best TV CG that comes out today. I feel the aesthetic quality falls a bit short of cinema feature CG studios like Dreamworks, Pixar, etc... but not by much, considering the relatively small budget and that blender was still in its early youth, it kind of blows those big studios out of the water in terms of innovative resourcefulness, also the narrative and comedy was classic!
That allows this short feature to stand on its own and now I want to look into more projects completed by the community.