Good Hunting is the eighth episode of Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots series. The short film is directed by Oliver Thomas, with animation by Red Dog Culture House.
Good Hunting is about a boy who is out hunting an evil sorcerer with his father. The boy finds the sorcerer’s daughter and hides her from his father. As the pair both grow up they must adapt to the world around them. The girl struggles to adapt as she can’t transform into the creature she is to feed and seeks help from the boy.
The animation for Good Hunting is similar to that of Avatar: The last Airbender and Legend of Korra. The animation, a more hand drawn almost like 90’s Disney style is mixed with a shiny more three dimensional design for modern technology and steam punk tech. It helps show the differences between two moments in time. The boy who is from an old village where new technology would be foreign and strange and the cars and machines of the future which stands out because that is where the world is leading.
The story of Good Hunting is probably one of the more complex of the short films so far. An example of