A young painter falls into a surreal world as he strives to capture the eyes of his subject.
A multi award-winning student animation inspired by the work of Italian surrealist Giorgio De Chirico and directed by Rositsa Vangelova, combining live action with animation.
A very pleasingly rendered fantasy about loss, separation and a one-armed astronaut by Nicolas Menard – a masters student at the Royal College of Art. Menard has a background in print – hence the colour palette and economy of the animation style.
An illustration from They Never Think Evil Thoughts – a 1991 interview with animators David Silverman and Wes Archer in the first edition of Simpsons Illustrated comics – using Lisa’s face as an animators’ guide to facial expressions in the early years of the show.
Ruby – a stop motion short by London based animator and body painter Emma Allen, created in five days and featuring the artist’s face cycling from one form, through death and decay, to the next.
Youtuber SafetyHammer (animators Doug Bayne, Ben Baker and Trudy Cooper) sez:
The Elegant Gentleman’s guide to Knife Fighting is an Australian sketch show- they came to me and said “you love Terry Gilliam, right?”
Yes. Yes I do. I made them a bunch of animated bumpers, these are some of my favourites.
(H/T: Rachel Wynne)
An animated 8-bit game style history of London’s Barbican Center – based on an article by Peter Ackbourne – from Roman era fort to contemporary performing arts venue by UK digital animation studio Persistent Peril.
In a new episode of the PBS Blank On Blank animated interview series, the late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead talks to Joe Smith in 1988 about the early days of the band, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey and the infamous ‘acid test’ parties of the late 60s.
Previously: ‘I Didn’t Know Until This Year That The Name Cobain Was Irish’
https://vimeo.com/78280464
A visceral take on the spirit of competition, where sprinters transform into their aggressive animal counterparts to survive and win.
Directed by Jérémy Delbos, Raphaëm El Khaddar, Camille, Marjoux, Laurent Maynard and Cécile Terrillon of the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques de Toulouse
Mike McGrath-Bryan from Cork-based animation studio Gobstar Film writes:
We have a short film coming up in the Cork Film Festival, on November 13th, called ‘The Scumbagnetic Effect’. A 3D animated short about bad behaviour, The Scumbagnetic Effect satirises both ASBO culture and self-styled bad-boy bankers in equal measure, and was completed in four months on a budget of zero euro.
