The creative power-duo of Ash Thorp and Anthony Scott Burns team with venerable Amsterdam post and production company PostPanic to take you deep into their stark a-punk-alyptic future in this ominous proof of concept short film called “LOST BOY.” [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]
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]
When Donald Trump called Hilary Clinton a “nasty woman,” he unintentionally created a rallying cry for women voters and he also helped reframe how we see women struggling for respect in a world dominated by men. [Watch]
Check this frenetic animated blast of dark humor called “Mr. Anxiety Goes on a Date,” an over-caffeinated interior monologue completed in one day by 4inaroom, aka Alyona Ciobanu, Anna Florea, The Sandul, and Serban Ilicevici. [Watch]
Join Pixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj for a look into how they challenged current expectations of animation with their CG short film “Borrowed Time,” an emotional sledgehammer with music by Gustavo Santaolalla (“Brokeback Mountain,” “Babel”) and awarded Best in Show at SIGGRAPH 2016. [Watch]
