A kaleidoscopic experimental CG short by motion designer Dirk Koy – photorealistic layering that’s a little bit Inception, a touch Cyriak and a tad Dr Strange .
Full screen for optimal effect.
Category Archives: Animation
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A new animation from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explains why. To wit:
Everybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors – and that our modern world can turn it into something that really hurts us. Why do we feel this way and what can we do about it?
Previously: Horrible, Horrible Mars
A short short by Aggelos Papantoniou and Nikhil Markale of Gibbon Animation studio in Melbourne.
World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros in the form of a hand-drawn, stop-motion short scrolling across the pages of a notebook by @KisaragiHutae6.
The latest in Pixar’s Spark Shorts series (you’ll recall ‘Purl’) – Brian Larsen’s tale of two ageing robots attempting to escape before they’re replaced by a new generation.
Freedom, however, does not come easy.
And here’s how they made it.
A very impressive LEGO fan film by Nukazooka, up there, in style and execution, with the current release itself.
In this short, a daring escape planned by two minifigs is thwarted by the arrival of a furry behemoth.
‘A Pearl’ by singer-songwriter Mitski.
Further enhanced by an elegant combination of CG and hand painted animation by Saad Moosajee and Danae Gosset of Art Camp.
A new animation by artist Jake Fried who builds up layers of ink and white-out liquid, changing and overlaying the same black and white drawing, scanning each new iteration into Photoshop (there are 1440 in total, filmed over seven months) then editing the whole sequence into a 60 second short, complete with music soundtrack.
Previously: Mind Frame
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt explores the many, many obstacles in the way of a functioning human base on the Red Planet. Lethal radiation, minimal energy sources, pesky dust clouds. Those kinds of things. To wit:
Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.
Previously: In Fareness
An atmospheric, beautifully lit GOBELINS film school graduation short by Parisian animator Arthur Chaumay in which a discussion between two boys on the shore of a deserted lake forces one of them to face the truth about himself.