Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Don’t Know What’ by Thomas Renoldner
A slapstick avant garde film…
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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.
Short Pick of the Day: ‘Final_Final’ by Matt Greenwood
A freeform experiment playing with shapes and faces in animation.
Short Pick of the Day: ‘Adam’ by Emma Allen
An experimental animated portrait illustrating some of the underlying neurological processes and emotions associated with depression.
