Swedish art director/designer Joakim Ekstroem fuses his passion for skateboarding with magic realism in this short film exploring how the obsessive search for spots to skate “ultimately shapes the way you perceive the world.” [Watch]
Art director/animator Ignacio Osorio (who won an Emmy for his motion work on CNN’s The Hippie Trails doc), conjures a tactile ode to geometric abstraction in this passion project, an intriguing mix of handmade collage and digital tools. [Watch]
French animator and CG artist Paul Lavau (whose credits include Despicable Me 2 and Minions), teams with Paris studio Wizz to craft a trio of emotional vignettes capturing very personal memories of adolescence. [Watch]
In a welcome contrast to the reverent tone of much Olympic content, directors Jean-Yves Parent and Michael Moercant (aka 4pm) at The Mill in Paris celebrate the event with a lighthearted in-house short film cast with antique tin toy characters. [Watch]
Paris-based 3D artist Sylvain Gaussens, whose previous CG motion experiments we covered here and here, recently dropped a dramatic new short film called Dreamers that he describes as a “personal playground”. [Watch]
London-based director/music producer Emma Catnip just dropped her latest motion experiment, a short film/music video called Bloom she describes as part of her “ongoing exploration of how AI can complement human creativity in animation.” [Watch]
