Planet Two: a short animation by Andy Martin
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After the positive response to the mini animated short Planet One here is the second installment, aptly called Planet Two. ‘While spending some time on Planet Two we follow a day in the life of one of it’s typical inhabitants… ahh the rat race, a struggle people from all over the cosmos have to deal [...]
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Lily Vanilli’s Bakewell Tart: creative baked goods
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Remember that anatomically-correct heart shaped cake? Well, Lily Vanilli strikes again! In this playful short, the queen of creative baking displays her visual artistry with an animated bakewell tart recipe. Word on the street is, she’s got a new book too.
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Paperman: A heart warming animated short film
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When was the last time you sent a paper airplane love letter to a complete stranger? Well, maybe you should take a hint from Paperman and try it out. It seemed to work for him. Paperman is a short film that came about when director John Kahrs began to wonder if his interactions with strangers [...]
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Animation from Jake Fried made from ink, coffee, and white out
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Check out this incredible animated short film from the wonderful imagination of Jake Fried. It was created from hand-drawn illustrions drawn with ink, coffee, and white out. The texture of the animation is stunning.
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Brave New Old: an animated short by Adam Wells
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Brave New Old is my first animated short. The intention was to create a different kind of storytelling with 3D animation: a mechanical storytelling. It’s been great having it in festivals, but I have always been most excited about putting it online for the world to watch.
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WONDER 365: new short-film animations every day
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Animator Mirai Mizue is a key figure of the new generation of abstract animation in Japan. He focuses on cell animation, preferring to draw every frame individually. This year he has been creating a short animated loop everyday, which will then be made on a 365 second animation towards the end of the year.
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Sub!: an animated short by Jesse Schmal
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This is a ridiculously brilliant animated short film by Jesse Schmal. ‘An Italian piazza is invaded by an unlikely… invader’. Classic animation style, irreverent humor meets Soviet nostalgia.
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Stuart Goldsmith’s Comedian’s Comedian podcast
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I’ve recently been catching up with all the episodes of the Comedian’s Comedian podcast while I try and come up with ideas for new animated shorts. It’s required listening for anyone who is trying to write comedy and particularly so if you have aspirations to be a stand up comedian as in each episode a different stand up is interviewed about their writing methods and experiences from their careers. It’s put together by fellow stand up, Stuart Goldsmith, and features a wide selection of comedians in different stages of their careers, with varying outlooks on the same job. Hopefully some of the writing tips will rub off on me and my next short will be doubly hilarious as a consequence, fingers crossed!
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Ballpit: a new animated film by Kyle Mowat
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Some animations really hit you from left field. Ballpit is one of those. This experimental film was made by Kyle Mowat as his thesis while studying animation at Sheridan Collage. It’s unlike any other animation short I’ve seen recently and is being shown at various animation festivals, picking up awards as it goes along. I [...]
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Foxy: new animation by Stephanie Thandi Johnstone
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We’ve all had an embarrassing injury, or two, and Get Well Soon is a series of animated shorts produced by 12foot6 based around this entertaining theme. In Foxy, a woman recalls the distressing repercussions of contracting Appendicitis in her teenage years. My ideas for the animation were first drawn onto paper and then re-drawn into [...]
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Sticky: a short animated documentary by Jill Rose
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I was possessed this year by the story of Lord Howe Island’s stick insects; it’s so gripping I’m compelled to tell it to everyone. Since I’m an animator, once I ran out of people to tell, making a film was the obvious next step. The result? Sticky! a short animated documentary, and a love song [...]
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A Cautionary Tail: an animation about a girl born with a tail
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A Cautionary Tail is an animated short film starring Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Barry Otto. It was directed by Simon Rippingale and written by Erica Harrison. It’s a dark, funny fable about a little girl born with a tail, and the story is told using a striking collage of 3D animated characters and hand-made [...]
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The Last Train: a gorgeous animated short by Giant
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I met these boys a few weeks ago in a creative meeting talking shop. Four Irish lads with far too much animation talent for a country of only four million. They call themselves simply Giant. Check out their gorgeous animated short, The Last Train, which to me just reeks of future success on all levels. [...]
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VIRAL VIDEO: Dock Ellis and The LSD No-No
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What’s that you say? Former major leaguer Dock Ellis pitched an LSD addled no hitter and narrates the tale with relish in No MAS and James Blagden’s animated psychedelic short? Yeah, you’ve got that right.
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No Robots: an animation about robots, kittens, and violence
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This short film by two San Jose State University students, Kimberly Knoll (USA) and 張永翰 Yunghan Chang (Taiwan), is both touching and beautifully animated.
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