Short Pick Of The Day: ‘The Flounder’ by Elizabeth Hobbs
One day a humble fisherman catches an enchanted fish. Can the fish help him and his wife improve their lot?
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‘Kill It And Leave This Town,’ The Striking Polish Feature That Was 14 Years In The Making (Interview)
Ahead of its Annecy screening, director Mariusz Wilczyński tells us how he made “the first feature animated art film in the history of Polish cinema.”
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Don’t Know What’ by Thomas Renoldner
A slapstick avant garde film…
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘American Totem’ by Theodore Tagholm
A film that combines video footage of the American West with digital effects.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Blow To The Head’ by Caleb Wood
Music video for Lightning Bolt’s song “Blow to the Head,” from their new album Sonic Citadel.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Twin Towers’ by Tony Comley
An animated film based on the poetry of Leke Oso Alabi.
How They Did It: Inventing A New Animation Technique For ‘The Physics Of Sorrow’
For his new film, acclaimed animator Theodore Ushev adopted a style of painting pioneered by Egyptians thousands of years ago.
Watch The Trailer For ‘Violence Voyager,’ The Strangest (Almost)-Animated Feature Of The Year
The film, by Japanese artist Ujicha, is made with a lo-fi cutout technique known as “gekimation.” It will be available for streaming on October 21.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘The Immortality Of The Crab’ by Giacomo Manzotti
An experimental animated short film shot on Super 8 film, made with in-camera editing and no post production.
How They Did It: Animating Hong Kong’s High-Rise Buildings In ‘Serial Parallels’
A new way of looking at Hong Kong through animation…
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Gyre’ by Florian Guibert
An abstract music video for Piloot’s “Gyre.”
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Attraction’ by Emily Scaife
Imagining the sensations of attraction and pleasure in insects, and the seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘The Bonds’ by Jonathan Gillie
An experimental piece by British animator Jonathan Gillie.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Sketches’ by Vladimir Tomin
Today’s Short Pick is “Sketches,” a funny piece of experimental cg from Russia.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Optics’ by Maxim Zhestkov
An experimental film that explores the behavior of artificial light and color in digital environments.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Bookanima: Martial Arts’ by Shon Kim
An experimental animation to give books new cinematic life.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Flow’ by Nobutaka Kitahara
Meditative abstract cg film made with Houdini.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘9 Ways To Draw A Person’ by Sasha Svirsky
By mixing abstraction, collage, drawing, and animation the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of potential of the animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.
Short Pick of the Day: ‘Outside’ by Vladimir Tomin
“So that’s what it feels like to go outside.” Film by Vladimir Tomin, 2018.
Nikita Diakur’s Groundbreaking CG Film ‘Ugly’ Is Now Online
At a time when digital artists are still grappling with the potential of computer animation, Nikita Diakur’s “Ugly” is an eye-opening dive into the medium’s untapped possibilities and a bold statement on where cg animation might still go.
