“Meeting Harry Smith” by Drew Christie
An animated interpretation of musicologist and filmmaker John Cohen’s first meeting with Harry Smith, the experimental filmmaker and …
An animated interpretation of musicologist and filmmaker John Cohen’s first meeting with Harry Smith, the experimental filmmaker and …
A speck of dust in a desk drawer finds himself sucked into a vacuum cleaner. Poussière (aka Dust) is a sweet little film made …
Denis Chapon has been animating twelve drawings a day–everyday–for the past four years. The resulting stream of conscious short feels …
For the past two years, SVA grad Ross Bollinger has been animating his own web series, Pencilmation, out of Charlottesville, Virginia. …
RISD grad and now NYC-based animator/illustrator Andrew Kaiko has completed his first self-funded short, Orbis Park. Says …
Serbian animation outfit GlossyRey came up with Be a Vegetarian, which if not particularly effective at making its case for vegetarianism …
A bittersweet childhood memory, beautifully recalled by German animator Hendrik Rost:
A beautiful example of pure visual storytelling. Gobelins students Chloé Nicolay, Manddy Wyckens, Anthony Lejeune, Gaspard Sumeireand …
If you are planning to buy the two sets of UPA cartoons that Jerry posted about, you would do well to also pick up the forthcoming …
Not qualifying for an Academy Award is this new Scrat short from Blue Sky. Directed by Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier, it’s more of …
Here’s the list of qualified shorts, screened this past weekend for members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch of the …
The Academy is considering about 45 films for this years Best Animated Short. We don’t have the list of what qualified, but here are …
For the past year Jesus Orellana’s epic sci-fi short Rosa has been winning awards at festivals and attracting attention in Hollywood …
While we await their CG Arthur Christmas and their clay-mated Pirates feature, Aardman tempts us with this superbly crafted short from …
Hand-drawn goodness by Rob Stevenhagen created for by Steffen Schaeffler’s The Emperor’s New Clothes. Where can we see the rest of the …
UPDATE: MARCH 15, 2012: Bla Bla won the SXSW Interactive Award. Is it a film or a game? Interactivity and non-linear storytelling have …
Let’s celebrate Halloween with the creepiest Disney short ever made: Jack Kinney’s “Duck Pimples.”
Jens Blank’s imaginative new film Don’t Swim After Lunch was created for a traveling art exhibition that started in London and went on to …
Clay animation can be a magical medium when the material is allowed to be itself and not dressed up to look like something else. This is …
Speaking of color scripts, I have to point out an interesting and visually striking film experiment by Dice Tsutsumi, whose Toy Story 3 …