Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants

Setting: Picnic Park and Ant Hill

Characters: Ladybug with torn wing Black Ant Army of Red ants Lizard Frog Human couple

Directors: Thomas Szabo and Helan Giraud

Story:

It tells the journey of an ant and a ladybug. Who became friends. There is no dialogue or spoken words of any kind beyond the squeaking of insects but it is not needed.

 At the start a human couple is eating a picnic when they must go to have a baby leaving their lunch behind including a box of sugar. It is of course discovered by our ants and a ladybug who has a torn wing.

 

They then go on a journey to take the tin of sugar to the ant hill but encounter a lizard, frog and an army of red ants. 

In a great scene they must navigate the box through a river with the red ants in a pop can following them.

Then the movie takes a turn and becomes a war drama that is quite compelling with the hoards of red ants gathering to attack the smaller black ants.

The ladybug then goes to get more matches and faces off with a spider who proves to actually be a friend. 

The spider kind of looks like the coal creatures in Spirited Away but other than that it is an entirely original design

It is so creative how they use implements available to an ant to battle each other and I got into the story.