After watching both the feature length film and the short film versions of 9, I've been able to notice some big differences between the two. The obvious ones being that the story is more drawn out and explained and the feature film has voice acting. These are obvious changes that would come with having more resources working on the film. Although they are seemingly surface level changes, they can lead to other changes. For example, the characters are easier to get attached to with the voice acting. I expressed during my look into the short film that I wasn't very invested in the chase scenes due to not being invested in the characters. While the characters' voices aren't the sole reasons for this, it plays a role. Speaking of characters, there are a lot more in the feature film than in the short. In the short, we only see 9; 5,presumably; and the robot dog for most of its runtime. This made it all more confusing when we saw more characters exit from the device that 9 opens at the end. In the feature film, we see a lot more characters. We see 9, 5, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, the twins, the dog, and an even bigger villain. Other than having more characters to develop and get the audience attached to, the increase in character roster also allowed the film to explain why those characters were inside the device from the short.
The short doesn't do many things better than the film. The only thing I could think of is that the short didn't overuse the trope where a character is almost killed before the enemy is distracted by something else. This, however, is mostly due to the short having a shorter runtime and, in turn, less opportunities to do so. It's not surprising to say that the feature film did a lot of things better than the short. It's almost unfair to compare the two, actually. However, it is nice to see how far the story has come in the 4 years between the short and the film's releases. In the end, both were done really well in their own ways and can both be commended by its animation work.
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