ADHD and Layzell Bros join their respectively unhinged forces to present a vision of a future where technology has turned us into socially dysfunctional morons.
AWK-ward…
Category Archives: Animation
An award-winning short from Evan Viera – inspired by his own father’s struggle with schizoaffective disorder – featuring a young girl who escapes into a dream world to escape her psychosis.
An exploration of two worlds – one medicated, the other unmedicated: powerful, affecting, beautifully rendered stuff.
An unhinged hand-made, stop-motion, action-western scifi by CalArts student Bradley Schaffer wherein a grandiose Texan lawman makes short work of an invading force of thumb-fetishising aliens.
And that’s just a sentence describing it.
A demo of the shape of game character rendering to come – courtesy of Activision R&D and an unspecified (but probably large) number of GeForce GTX680 graphics cards.
Not quite parfait. But getting there.
More examples here.
College Humor’s suggestions for everything you secretly want to happen on the televinternet’s favourite brutal Middle Earth fantasy series, but probably won’t, but really should.
A hydrocarbon-hungry Google Maps city goes on the hunt for sustenance in this short by Patrick Jean.
A trailer for ‘Zombie Island’ – the first episode of ADHD’s new animated series of Ethan and Malachai Nicolle’s Axe Cop, which premiered at Wonder Con Anaheim on Saturday.
Previously: Axe Cop: The First Fan Video
A festive short from Yukfoo about alcoholism, depression and a vengeful Easter bunny keen to steal a little of Santa’s celebrity for himself.
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Toronto based artist Spencer Duffy’s adorable mashup of two of the best cartoon series on TV.
Of this excellent 2011 short, all-conquering, Dublin-based, 2010 Oscar noms Brown Bag Films sez:
An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity College in Dublin when he studied under the enigmatic Professor Orit, the professor who was driven to madness by his obsessive pursuit of the unified theory. Convinced that the answer somehow lay in the relationship between the numbers two, three and five, Professor Orit’s obsession started the journey which has led his former student to the top of the world. Featuring the voice talents of John Hurt and Stuart Townsend, and produced by Colm Tyrrell, the film was scripted by Darragh O’Connell based on a short story by Austin Kenny. Nominated for an IFTA in 2012, the film was funded by under the Frameworks scheme with the Irish Film Board.
Full screen. Feet up.