A promo video featuring seven surreal CGI-enhanced vignettes by director Dan Kokatajlo and a team of creatives for the launch of the album Floating Metal Key by London-based electronica musician Mathew Wilcock.
Artist Digitally Warps London For EP Teaser (The Creators Project)
Russian artist and animator Natalia Mirzoyan’s adorable short (made using different varieties of tea-leaves, if you don’t mind) about the life, times and grand designs of an independent-minded ant.
Go full frame and enjoy this looping stop-motion film by Kijek and Adamski which was originally made for projection onto a 20m wide space at the Motion Factory Exhibition in Paris.
Animator Marty Cooper combines traditional cel animation with photos and videos he takes on his iPhone, using transparent layers to build up the interaction in stop motion.
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Animator Tyler Hurd sez:
BUTTS is a profound 3D animated cartoon about anxiety, depression, and lending a hand to those in need. Perhaps the most important film of the decade, ‘BUTTS’ is a reminder that no matter how strange something may seem, people can still make a difference in their own unique and beautiful way.” I worked on this on and off in my spare time over the past 18 months. I handled everything visual, and I had help with sound. It’s my most profound and stupid work to date.
You may or may not be reminded of this little beauty.
An incredibly impressive graduation film by students Régis Aillet, Alexandre Bass, Clément Chaudat, Etienne Devillée and Maxime Moreira of ESMA Montpellier wherein an empty-netted old salt attempts to impress a young chap on the dockside with embellished yarns about his adventures at sea.
Best in fullscreen.
Director Drew Christie’s hand-drawn animation tells the story of a homeless teen, the challenges he faces and the triumph of his creative self.
Made for the Seattle University Film & Family Homelessness initiative.
A charming ‘little story about love and adventure’ by graphic designer Cesar ‘El Diablo’ Martinez.
Music Heaven by I, Monster.
The internet is dead. Long live the internet.
Created from this Vine by Televandalist using a Flipbookit.
A new animation from Jake Fried, who uses ink, gouache, white-out and coffee to build up the ‘frames’ of his animations as layers, invariably resulting in a completed canvas several inches thick.
Previously: Down Into Nothing
