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Category: Animation

  • The Gold Sparrow

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    With an imaginative use of color, artful rotoscoping and beautiful production design, The Gold Sparrow (Vimeo link) is a visually appealing animated short that has garnered numerous awards. The 12 minute film was directed by Daniel Stessen, with director of animation Michael Garza and music by The Brothers Lit. There is a website for the…

  • Fallin’ Floyd

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    Fallin’ Floyd is an 8 minute animated short from the Netherlands, written and directed by Albert’t Hooft and Paco Vink. It chronicles a romantically jilted jazz musician, and his struggle through the resulting bout with depression, as portrayed by a little demon figure. The film is well realized, and effectively changes color palettes to create…

  • Mr. Hublot and the sculptures of Stéphane Halleux

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    I’m usually not one to watch award shows; I would rather (quite literally) watch paint dry. However, in the case of the Academy Awards, I usually will take note the day after of mentions in the category of Best Animated Short Film. This year’s winner in that category, Mr. Hublot, a CGI animated short directed…

  • Il Duomo: Daring Design

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    Il Duomo: Daring Design is a short animation by Fernando Baptista. It serves as a brief introduction to the marvel of architecture, engineering and design that is Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome for the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. Though it doesn’t go into great detail, it hints at the amazing accomplishment of Brunelleschi’s…

  • Mirage

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    Mirage is a three minute animated short with animation and music by Frederic Kokott. Less a story than a short audio-visual poem, it was made with vector graphics in Illustrator and After Effects, using the “2.5D parallax effect” that has become popular in making animated art images lately. Kokott has posted some making of videos,…

  • The Flight, Inbal Breda

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    The Flight is a beautiful animated short by Israeli concept artist and animator Inbal Breda, done as her graduation film for the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design this year. It obviously draws inspiration from, or is a homage to, Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Castle in the Sky, but Breda takes the notion her own way…