Just before Christmas in 2012, London artist/animator Steve Cutts released “Man”, an ironically jaunty short film about the Anthropocene apocalypse in all its dark and ridiculous glory. [Watch]
From superdesigners in Moscow: “This is a PSA for a world where every bite of data is under surveillance. The glass samples are a metaphor, with the laboratory as a material embodiment of the soullessness of neural networks. [Watch]
An allegory about the dangers of following your deepest instincts, “Sous la Glace” (Under the Ice), a CG short film by six students at École des Nouvelles Images comes wrapped in the most sublime digital cinematography we’ve seen this year. [Watch]
It may only be 25 seconds long, but this animated micro-short called “Feed the Urge” from Amsterdam design and motion studio Woodwork delivers days of character and humor with a crisp, confident style. [Watch]
Moscow CG artist Sergey Maslov melds his childhood passions for film, astrophysics, and classical art with visual inspiration from Magritte, Escher, Rembrandt, Lynch, and Kubrick into an expansive three-act hallucination. [Watch]
UK motion designer, animator, and director Ryan Brotherston captures animated snapshots of the new routines that have emerged under life in lockdown with his young family in London. [Watch]
