Category: Animation
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An Object at Rest
An Object at Rest is an animated short (5 mins) by Seth Boyden that chronicles the eons-long life of a stone as time, and human activity, goes on around it. In this and some of his other animated shorts, Boyden has combined animation done in the TV Paint application with backgrounds painted in traditional watercolor…
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Distance
Distance is a short (3 minute) animated film by students from the Gobelins school in Paris. It portrays a psychological mini-drama of fear within the mind of an introverted high school girl as she tries to traverse the distance between her hall locker and that of a boy she likes. Please see the page on…
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Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2015
Each year the graduating animation students from Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris are divided into five teams, who produce short (about 1 minute) animations that are used to introduce each day’s programs at the Annecy International Festival of Animation in mid-June. Each year, the Goeblins students refresh my faith in…
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Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux, Gwenn Germain
Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux (“Girls and Guys from Summits and Skies”) is a remarkable short animation (two and a half minutes) that is the senior project of Gwenn Germain, a student at the French art school Créapole. The film is an overt homage to the work of the brilliant Japanese animator Hayao…
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Yoshiharu Sato’s Studio Ghibli style TV commercial
I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of CGI special effects in television commercials. Some years ago, I was an enthusiastic fan of CGI; now I’m weary of the way computer generated effects saturate almost everything. often as a substitute for story or characterizartion. What a refreshing change it is to see something…
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Playground
Playground is a wordless animated short by Ryosuke Oshiro from the Tokyo Unniversity of the Arts, about a loner schoolboy who finds release from his drab life in school in his fertile imagination. He encounters another, and they have something of a battle of the imaginations. Animated with a soft touch, it puts emphasis on…