37th Student Academy Award Winners

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of the 37th Annual Student Academy Awards competition, and …

Above Then Beyond

In 2005, a group of students at ESRA made a short film called Above Then Beyond. It has just surfaced on the internet and is worth a …

A Bear Film by Kris Anka

A Bear Film is a third year CalArts effort that looks like an animated version of a Lou Romano colorscript. It’s created–entirely in …

Cartoon Brew TV Student Animation Festival

It’s the time of year when lots of students are adding the finishing touches to their films so it’s a perfect time to announce Cartoon …

Most Unpaid Internships Are Illegal

A piece about internships in yesterday’s New York Times has been making the rounds, and it’s worth a peek for all animation students. It …

Elk Hair Caddis

Elk Hair Caddis is another mini-masterpiece from those crazy kids at Denmark’s Animation Workshop: Peter Smith, Alice Holme, Anders …

Volgens de vogels by Linde Faas

I woke up this morning (this afternoon, to be honest) hating animation. Blame it on last night’s interminable ASIFA-East screening of …

A Leg Up by Bevin Carnes

Speaking of the Oscars (isn’t everyone?), when I attended the Academy Feature Animation Symposium the other night I briefly met Bevin …

Out of a Forest by Tobias Gundorff Boesen

Tobias Gundorff Boesen’s Out of a Forest is a stop-motion effort out of Denmark’s The Animation Workshop, the same school responsible for …

Vegeterrible

Animation students Henril Sonniksen and Benjamin Neilsen made Vegeterrible in their third year at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, …

Electropolis

Electropolis is “the product of roughly 7 months of work from 13 students in the 3rd year of the BAA Animation program at Sheridan …

Pellet Gunn by Tim Beckhardt

I saw Tim Beckhardt’s Pellet Gun in Ottawa a couple weeks ago. It’s a student film from RISD. I liked the crisp linear style and it made …

Cardboard by Sjors Vervoort

A graduation film by Sjors Vervoort of The Netherlands, with sound design by Steven Aerts. While I would have liked to see the interplay …

“Meatwaffle” by Leah Shore

Leah Shore just graduated from RISD. This is her thesis film. This is either genius or nonsense. I’ll let you decide. It’s NSFW.

Insert Coin by Vurup

Vurup is a team of animation students working together in Buenos Aires, who have created their first short film called Insert Coin. The …

My Day by Eamonn O’Neill

My Day is a short about personal space. It’s a third-year project by Irish animation student Eamonn O’Neill. It was made at IADT Dun …

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