Cool, distinct animation style.

The direction was specific—used slow motion to emphasize joy and synergy between all the anthropomorphic city items: awnings, gutters, manhole covers, street lights, as the rain began to fall.

The music introduced by the raindrops worked well for tone, and heighten the senses.

Amongst a sea of anthropomorphic black umbrellas on a busy street (I’m assuming set in Paris), the titular Blue enjoys its day in the rain when it peeps an adjacent red umbrella doing the same. After exchanging coy glances at each other, Blue embarrassingly flipped inside-out in front of its new crush.

The climatic separation was inevitable. Urging to see Red again, Blue magically floats away from its human, and is whisked across the city street. Blue’s city-item friends attempted a safe landing, but it was too late. Blue plummeted near a sad gutter. 😟

Blue’s human emerges, as does Red’s. The story ends with both humans, holding their umbrellas, enjoying a rainy chat outside the “La Parapluie Cafe,” “The Umbrella Cafe.”