Category: Animation
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Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2016
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 of the five day’s events at the Annecy International Festival of Animation. The emphasis is on 2D hand drawn animation.…
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Animation for Ma’agalim – Uri Lotan
Ma’agalim is a beautiful short animation (3:30 minutes) directed by Uri Lotan. It is the music video for the song of the same name by Jane Bordeaux. It portrays a mechanically animated wooden doll in the revolving scene of an arcade amusement, walking in pace as the landscape rolls beneath her feet. If you click…
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Forms in Nature
Forms in Nature is an animated short film (2 minutes) in which natural and man-made forms are compared and contrasted within a carefully constrained and artfully orchestrated set of design parameters. Largely focused on a central circle, the most basic of geometric forms, the images follow one another, often in shared screen transitions, in a…
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Mother
Mother is a touching and beautifully realized animated short (5 minutes) about the weight of maintaing a family and household. The film, done in a Japanese influenced style [correction: I’m told the style is Korean], was made by a group of third-year students at Sheridan College. The group, led by Stephanie Chew, calls themselves Studio…
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Lost Property
Lost Property is a touching and beautifully realized animated short (5 mins) — written, directed and with art by Åsa Lucande. [Via Katherine Trendacosta on io9)
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Batz
Batz is an animated short (6 min) by Max Maleo & Aurélien Prédal. The animation is done with a CGI process known generally as “cel shading” or “toon shading”, in which the normally 3-D appearance of CG animation is given a look more like 2-D hand drawing by the use of gradients and flat areas…