In this graduation short by Mehdi Louala, Geoffrey Godet, Nicolas Lejeune, Céline Hermann and Simon Legrand of the all-conquering French animation school Supinfocom, a giant blue man roams the surface of an alien planet, controlled by the robot chickens in his mind.
Now that’s a premise, right there.
ADHD‘s discouraging pre-Fourth of July ‘celebration’ with statistics drawn from the CIA World Factbook.
http://vimeo.com/98163942
A conversation between Brian Wilmoth and his brother Mike animated by The Rauch Brothers for StoryCorps.
Bryan, Mike and their six brothers and sisters were raised in a strict, religious home from which Bryan was banished when his parents found out he was gay. It took many years, but eventually, they would all reconnect.
Mark Baldwin writes:
Yo dudes, I’ve made another cartoon, this one is called Festival Girl
It’s only 30secs so give it a click sure
Animator Alex Glawion’s atmospheric graduation film for the Freie Hochschule für Grafikdesign und Bildende Kunst school features an alien in an unstable world who is granted a vision of what might happen if he/she alters future events.
A slick CGI short from French VFX artist Julien Vanhoenacker featuring a hovering cube roaming the surface of a dystopian world – “a visual metaphor of the positive and negative aspects of humanity and its path on Earth.”
Way to wreck the buzz there, Jules.
(Brief NSFW imagery).
An impressive Blender-generated short by animator Daniel Houghton telling the bittersweet love story of:
.. two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper that magically transform into paper people as they are spit out of a malfunctioning printer into a recycling bin.
Three years ago, Dublin based physics student David Whyte started a Tumblr called Bees and Bombs where he posted gifs he’d created.
Since then he’s become adept at the open source programming language Processing which, combined with his physics and maths background, has resulted in an ongoing series of striking, minimalist loops.
Miguel Jiron’s vibrantly coloured, elegantly phrased short tells the story of a young boy who travels to Nicaragua with his family and faces the first of many cultural challenges – rolling his r’s to pronounce the name of the country correctly.
Previously: Paintstorm
