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Category: Animation

  • The Lighthouse Keeper

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    The Lighthouse Keeper is a beautifully realized short (3 minute) animation that won the award for “Best Graduation Film” from the 2010 Annecy festival. The film was created by a team of students (credits on the Vimeo page) graduating from the amazing Gobelins, l’école de l’image in Paris. (See my previous posts about Gobelins students’…

  • Un Tour de Manege

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    Un Tour de Manege (“A Turn of the Carousel”, if I’m interpreting it correctly) is another animated gem that comes out of Gobelins, l’ecole de l’image. Credited to Nicolas Athané, Brice Chevillard, Alexis Liddell, Françoise Losito and Mai Nguyen; the short (3 minute) animation deals with a young girl who is separated from her mother…

  • Thought of You (Ryan Woodward)

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    Thought of You (also on Vimeo) is a short animation by professional animator, storyboard and concept artist Ryan Woodward. It is a simple but beautifully done dance sequence, with suggestions of a story, but open ended enough for viewers to make their own interpretations. Elegantly animated, the sequence is set to World Spins Madly On…

  • Codehunters

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    Codehunters is a 2006 CGI animated short directed by Ben Hibon, who directed the animated sequence in the current Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie. Working with Stateless Films and Blinklink, Hibon worked to make the CGI images look graphic and closer to 2-D drawings than most CGI, and the film has a nice…

  • Out of Sight

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    Out of Sight is an absolutely beautiful short animation from Taiwan. it is about, among other things, imagination, sensation and the way input from our senses gradually expands our world. It’s also a sublime evocation of a point of view most of us haven’t experienced. This was done by three students from the National Taiwan…

  • Art in Flanders, animated view of Flemish art

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    Art in Flanders is an animation that serves as the introductory page for the Lukas image bank of digital reproductions of Flemish art. The image bank itself can be searched and browsed by theme, timeline, or style. The image previews are zoomable, though within a frustratingly small window. The animation, however, is larger. In it…