The 2016 STYLE FRAMES design conference opened in spectacular fashion a few hours ago with this luminous title sequence lovingly designed and animated by Hornet director Eran Hilleli with music and sound design from Disasterpeace. [Watch]
Inspiring and surprisingly emotional compilation of thoughts and rants from writer/director Brad Bird (‘The Iron Giant’, ‘The Incredibles,’ ‘Ratatouille’) on his creative process and why animation is not a genre – assembled by Kees van Dijkhuizen Jr., a young film editor from the Netherlands. [Watch]
And the award for the best animated interpretation of classical music in a short film goes to “Preston,” a visceral mini-masterwork of pugilistic excess set to Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 – created by students at French animation/VFX school ISART Digital as their graduation project. [Watch]
With US voters divided like never before, We Are Royale pull out all the stops, using 80’s airbrush and electro voodoo to summon Neil Patrick Harris for inspiration in an effort to unite the country while it chooses the next leader of the free world. [Watch]
The off-kilter but meticulously drafted characters of illustrator Eran Mendel pop to life in a trio of darkly comic shorts animated by Oren Mashkovski and held together by the music of composer Pablo J. Garmón. [Watch]
São Paulo designer/illustrator/director João Lavieri unleashes “a collection of weird loops animated without sense” as a promo for the Fair Des.gráfica, a cultural event “focusing on publications and visual experiences that are conspicuous by their daring and experimentation in the field of comics.” [Watch]
