A very satisfying short in which master printmaker Keiji Shinohara demonstrates the fine art of Japanese woodblock printing (ukiyo-e), at several points using oil from his face to help the pressing tool grip the paper.
Reads wouldn’t do that for you.
With a fourth and final installation of the Hotel Transylvania film series due out this Summer, Sony Pictures has released an appetite-whetting short in which Drac attempts to find a playmate for his gigantic puppy Tinkles.
For best results, be a child or watch it with one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcNlhZ8l5k8
A short by John-Louis Aeberhardt wherein we enter a world where dinosaurs have not only survived but evolved to the point where they are ready to face their greatest enemy: the asteroid.
A new shapeshifting short by Universal Everything and Hyundai Motorstudio in which – instead of the shifting textures and colours of previous work – light and energy are to the fore (presumably a metaphor for Hyundai’s efforts in green energy and sustainable design).
Previously: Transfiguration
A new surreal animated short from Argentinian director Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films (you’ll recall his insane extrapolated amusement park) wherein everyday activities and scenes are taken to other levels entirely.
A poignant critique of animal testing in the form of an occasionally funny but overall heartbreaking short for the Humane Society of The United States.
The ‘mockumentary’ features a day in the life of upbeat but ailing product-testing rabbit Ralph (voiced by Taika Waititi) as explained to an interviewer (voiced by Ricky Gervais).
A sample of the teeny-tiny delights on offer at the Journey To The Microcosmos channel – in this case a fascinating chapter called “Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything’ wherein we learn that light and microscopy create visions of teeny-tiny life that don’t actually look like that in teeny-tiny reality.
Hey, it’s no biggie.
A pleasing short by Daihei Shibata – and a gentle poke in the eye for binary thinkers – In which a series of hard colours and shapes transition gradually from one form to another. Daihei sez of it:
When we gradate the boundaries between two polarized things, the two become smoothly connected. By blurring the various boundaries, we can find complexity, diversity, and richness of information.
