“Pythagasaurus” by Peter Peake
While we await their CG Arthur Christmas and their clay-mated Pirates feature, Aardman tempts us with this superbly crafted short from …
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 …
Nightingales in December is a hauntingly beautiful three-minute short by Theodore Ushev (Lipsett Diaries, Drux Flux). The film’s …
Interesting hand-drawn (on Cintiq, using TVPaint) film by Erick Oh (Student Academy Award finalist, Heart). Oh is a Korean animation …
This very short short by New York animation legend Candy Kugel and Rick Broas serves as a great summary of the Occupy Wall Street …
During last Sunday’s keynote speech at MIP Jr, Sam Register, the exec vp of creative affairs at Warner Bros. Animation, revealed that …
The inevitable has happened: CG provocateur David OReilly has partnered with Taiwan’s Next Media Animation, whose mocap news reports are …
Today is World Alzheimer’s Day, which gives us the opportunity to share this 2010 stop motion film by Carla Veldman, who made it while …
A bunch of rolls of tape and a glass plate don’t sound like the ingredients for a captivating piece of animation. That is, unless you’re …
Make sure you have tissues handy before you watch these three 9/11 shorts directed by the Brooklyn-based Rauch Brothers Animation. Each …
Immerse yourself in the expressionistic atmosphere of Takuya Hosogane’s Assimilation. It was made using After Effects, Cinema 4D and …
The ninth selection in our Student Animation Festival, Sheared, was created by Nikolas Ilic, a recent graduate of Canada’s Sheridan …
The Brothers McLeod decided to enter a film into the DepicT! mini-shorts competition. They gave themselves the added challenge of …
Seattle-based Michael Langan emailed to let me know about his latest film, Heliotropes, which “documents the parallel goals of man and …
Don’t miss: tonight at 8pm is “Back to School” night at the Cinefamily. That means not only a program of rare industrial films, including …