Los Angeles freelance art director and designer CJ Cook reveals the design and motion process behind “Totems,” his personal experiment with “colors, camera moves, and different kinds of animation.” [Watch]
Jumping confidently between animation techniques including stop-motion, UPA-influenced 2D, and golden age black and white, 2nd year CalArts student Mathieu Libman ruminates on life, love, and small blessings in disguise with “Pinky Toe.” [Watch]
If you caught Kibwe Tavares’ short film “Jonah”, you know his talent for story craft enhanced with magic realism VFX work is second to none. [Watch]
South Korean animator/illustrator Seoro Oh takes the head-nodding battle against ill-timed drowsiness we all know well to it’s logical extreme in his 2D graduation film “Afternoon Class” [Watch]
It may look like it was hand painted by a mischievous Van Gogh in grade school but this new Motionpoem, by Method Studios for “Monsters” by Dorothea Lasky, hides a complex workflow beneath its lighthearted surface. [Watch]
Perhaps because each student creates their own films (rather than in teams), graduation season at the California Institute of the Arts always produces a wide and intriguing array of short animated films. [Watch]
