Having wrapped a stellar festival run (including a Jury Award at SXSW and being shortlisted for an Oscar), artist/animator Elizabeth Hobbs has released her eight-minute hand-made surrealist fantasy The Debutante into the wild. [Watch]
Writer/director/illustrator Danny Sangra takes a poke at the creative industrial complex (and makes his Stash debut) with this snappy two-minute animated parable about selling out and selling yourself short. [Watch]
Leveraging an array of motion techniques, CD Will Johnson and the Scholar crew unleash their inner characters in this in-house short film “enhancing behavioral type in literal and metaphorically kinetic ways”. [Watch]
Conjuring a cast of whimsical characters, Brighton studio Form Play stages a series of gently comic vignettes (in the spirit of Saul Bass) for the title sequence of the 2024 Playgrounds, The Art Department festivals in Eindhoven and Berlin. [Watch]
Paris prodco Jungler teams with director Will Studd and the stop-motion mavens at Aardman to frame up a slap-stick proxy burger battle for McDonald’s in France thru agency TBWA. [Watch]
In their latest in-house animated short film, director/designer Eric Edwards and Seattle prodco The New Blank drop a mischievous two-minute jab at the shortcomings of AI and the “commoditization of ideas and creativity”. [Watch]
