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Category: Animation

  • Negative Space stop-motion animation

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    Negative Space is a touching and beautifully realized stop-motion animated short by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter. It focuses on a father and son who bond over the way to properly pack a suitcase. My link is to the short hosted on Cartoon Brew, which is where I encountered the film. There is also a…

  • Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2018

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    Every year since 2006, I’ve been highlighting the brief (one minute or so) animations made by small teams of graduating students from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Gobelins School of Communications) in Paris to be used as introductions to each of the day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation. Like last year’s group, at…

  • Short Trip, Alexander Perrin

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    Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive animation by Alexander Perrin. The author calls it an “interactive illustration”, and the drawings are done in pencil. If you would like to be simply and delightfully amused for 5 or 10 minutes, turn your sound on, open your browser to full screen and play with it using the…

  • Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2017

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    As I’ve been noting every year since 2006, each year at this time, small teams of graduating students from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Gobelins School of Communications) in Paris create short animations (usually about 1 minute) to be used as introductions to each of the five day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation.…

  • X-Story, Vitaliy Shushko

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    X-Story is an animated short (roughly 12 minutes) by Vitaliy Shushko. At first, I thought this was a promo or incorporated animation for a game from a major company. Given the production values, length and level of accomplishment, I was surprised to find that this was an independent animation project. I checked Shushko’s blog and…

  • Bury It

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    “Bury It” is a very nicely realized animated music video for a song by Chvrches and Haley Williams — animated by Mighty Nice with a design direction established by comics artist and illustrator Jamie Mckelvie, who has worked with the band previously on poster designs. I’m not certain if Mckelvie actually directed the short or…