Category Archives: Animation

German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explore a conflict old as time that shows no sign of ending. To wit:

Every day billions of soldiers fight a merciless war on thousands of fronts, that has been going on for over one hundred million years. The world war of the ants.

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A graduation short by students of Supinfocom Rubika Valenciennes telling the strange tale of Finn – a kid with glowing ‘stains’ on his body who finds common ground with a group of fellow outcasts.

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A short by Slovenian animator Dusan Kastelic that takes the phrase ‘to think outside the box’ and reverses it. To wit:

This is a film about such a box and the flat-headed creatures that live inside of it.

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‘Weird is relative’ in this stop-motion short by animation studio Mighty Oak. To wit:

On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty nuns and everything in between…

Warning: contains felted wing-wangs, plushie hoo-hah action and wanton puppet situations.

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The result of an attempt by Canadian animator Yves Paradis to create one unscripted, improvised scene every week over the course of a year.

Pleasingly rendered in modern minimal style, the simple concept of a character pushing a big cube through the desert transforms into an increasingly complex sci-fi adventure.

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