A monochromatic 2D short by Marie Opron for French animation studio Miyu Productions that tells the claustrophobic tale of one man’s inability to escape city life.
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R/C Drifter
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A very impressive remote control scale replica of a 1962 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Fiesta station wagon complete with built in chassis squeaks and engine noises, lights and an Arduino controlled active suspension that can raise and lower the car, allowing it to react to weight shifts and drift impressively.
A powerful short about perception and realisation by Sandralee Zinzen and Nicolas Nivesse of the PÔLE 3D School at Roubaix, northern France. To wit:
A teenage girl is staring at herself in a mirror. She doesn’t like what she sees; fat, skinny, ugly, she looks like a monster. Maybe she should just take a step back and realize she’s not that monstrous.
Musician Steve Cruikshank likes to take a well known song and replace the original harmony with the ’mirror’ or ‘negative harmony’, which can make for a curious but not entirely unpleasant cover: in this case, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound Of Silence’ (1965).
Actual and until now unreleased phone conversations between Canadian author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson, recorded in 2010 as Marynick researched his book ‘Charles Manson Now’, illustrated in suitably helter-skelterish psychedelic style by Leah Shore.
A nifty 3D effect created by game developer Matt Stark wherein pictures taken by a Polaroid Instamatic become portals to new environments.
Expect to see it incorporated in future games.
A film noir style CGI graduation short by students of Supinfocom Valenciennes in France. To wit:
After a heist that goes wrong, a frail robot who was the driver of a robot mafia ends up being in possession of some loot he shouldn’t have, a human heart. Tempted by the opportunity of being like his bosses, he grafts the heart to himself and discovers the feeling of being alive. But those brief instants of life have a price.
A hand-drawn short by Tim Rauch telling the day tale of two friends who fall asleep under a tree, after the burial of a pet frog, only to wake in a strange nightmarish world.
Ice Karting
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A satisfying POV sequence featuring Russian lads hooning about on an icy river in noisy little 250cc karts with studded wheels.
That is all.