Category: Animation

Each year students from the graduating class of the remarkable Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris are divided into teams that create short animations to be used as introductions to each day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation. Each year in their minute to minute and a half segments…

The Night of All Fears is wonderfully designed and realized short animation (1 minute) that was the winner in last years’ “B-Movie” challenge on CGSociety. Theme of the challenge was to bring to life a classic B-Movie, or to suggest one that didn’t exist. An example of the latter approach, The Night of All Fears…

Sometimes the Stars (Vimeo link) is a short (4½ minute) animation produced by Luke Jurevicius and directed by Ari Gibson and Jason Pamment (for full credits list, click on the “Description” link under the animation on the Vimeo page). Elegant and understated, deftly realized in tones of gray, the wistful and somewhat enigmatic short follows…

Drawing Inspiration (Vimeo Link) is animated short from the UK, directed by Tim McCourt and Wesley Louis, aided by a group listed on the Vimeo page and on the Drawing Inspiration blog. A park denizen’s routine of sitting on his regular bench and drinking is interrupted by the discovery of a mysterious drawing of him,…