Apnée by Claude Chabot

I’d heard good things about Claude Chabot’s Apnée but unfortunately missed its screening at Platform. Luckily the film is posted …

Cupcake Hitler

What if Hitler were a cupcake? For those who were wondering why they don’t make World War II propaganda cartoons like they used to, …

Boris Kolar’s Woof, Woof!

I love the work that came out of Zagreb Film in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. These years were responsible for some of the funkiest and most …

Notes from Annecy

Another edition of Annecy has wrapped and the winners have been announced. The top short film prize, the Annecy Cristal, went to Suzie …

New Gobelins Shorts

The latest batch of six student shorts from the French animation school Gobelins have been posted online HERE. All these films debuted on …

Where Are the UPA Shorts?

If there’s one question I’ve received more frequently than any other since the release of Cartoon Modern, it’s “Where can I see the UPA …

2007 CalArts Student Films

Last week I checked out the CalArts Producers’ Show, the year-end screening where the best student films from the school year are …

Calvin and Hobbes Animated!

We may never see a Bill Watterson-approved animated version of Calvin and Hobbes but the following student film from Italy is a nice …

Len Lye’s Post Office Films

Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …

Psst! Pass It On

Psst! Pass It On… is a collaborative filmmaking experiment in which three different creative teams work together to create a 90-second …

Your Feet’s Too Big by Nancy Beiman

What a great way to start the week! Your Feet’s Too Big (1983) is a beautifully drawn short by animator/author/teacher Nancy Beiman, set …

Madame Tutli-Putli

The indie animation blog Hydrocephalic Bunny informs about a very interesting looking new stop motion short out of the National Film …

Doop Doop

Disney animator Rob Corley (Mulan, Lilio and Stitch) has posted this fun little (80 second) pencil test he made around ’94 or ’95, …

Men in Black

Working on a tight budget? The piece below is a beautiful example of how great artwork combined with creative compositing can be just as …

Stop, Look and Listen (1967)

A quick follow-up to my earlier post about the pixilation shorts of Chuck Menville and Len Janson: another one of their shorts is also …

Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi

Today’s post about the pixilated shorts of Chuck Menville and Len Janson makes me want to point out a more recent short in a similar …

99 of 100