Wildly successful on the festival circuit (94 screenings and many awards), the short film “At First Sight” by Dutch artist/animator Sjaak Rood is finally available online in all its splattery, visceral, and emotional glory. [Watch]
To celebrate landing US representation on the Final Frontier roster, Brazilian animation studio Dirty Work unleashes their “massive-giant-robot-smasher-inner-beast” in this fun studio ID. [Watch]
Commissioned by FX Networks and based on Pamela Ribon’s acclaimed coming-of-age memoir, “My Year Of Dicks” earned Icelandic director/animator Sara Gunnarsdóttir a 2023 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film. [Watch]
Director/animator Michael Emry at IMAGE+NOISE in LA teams with UK director/visual artist Troy Browne for a bold spec motion piece built around the power and mystique of Air Jordan basketball shoes. [Watch]
Fresh from the playful mind of Berlin-based director/animator Merlin Flügel (who dropped this wonderfully strange short in 2021), comes the trailer for the 2023 edition of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film. [Watch]
Director Hannah Jacobs in London: “I had the pleasure of working alongside the humanitarian NGO International Rescue Committee to produce this short animation based on conversations with refugee children about their experience starting school after fleeing war and conflict.” [Watch]
