A plantain promotion by Australian animator Julian Frost (he of ‘Dumb Ways To Die’).
Category Archives: Animation
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An accomplished short by Tom Teller in which a wistful robotic kitchen porter is promised a release from his drudgery.
An award-winning, appropriately seasonal 2013 short by Spanish animators Marc Riba and Anna Solanas about a boy isolated in a house besieged by a horde of stray dogs.
Not for kids.
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Michiyo Yasuda, former head of colouration at legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, has passed away at the age of 77.
Responsible for the palette and mood of nearly four decades of award-winning feature-films and shorts, Yasuda had been working with studio heads Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata since her youth, first as a rank-and-file colourist at Toei Animation, then joining the pair at their start-up, where she stayed until her retirement in 2009, after final film Ponyo.
An award winning short by Estonian animator Sander Joon in which a biker gagging for a smoke but out of cigarettes joins a race where he’s assisted by spectators with strange powers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWdP5DMdsM
While this and possibly other dimensions await the imminent release of Season 3 of Justin Roiland’s Adult Swim masterpiece Rick And Morty, enjoy this ‘fanimation’ (originally shown in animatic form at San Diego ComiCon) by tiarawhy, based on an actual, foul-mouthed, fully transcribed exchange that took place between Judge Bryant Durham and defendant Denver Allen at Georgia Superior Court last June. To wit:
Judge Morty’s life changes forever when he meets an inmate like no other.
Previously: The Trial Of Rick And Morty
(H/T: XCyberBladeX)
Based on an original work by Bulgarian poet Georgi Gospodinov.
Directed by Asparuh Petrov of Compote Collective.
Diarmuid Hayes writes:
A bit late in the year maybe, but we made a short animation about a little known story from 1916 that maybe you’d like to share.