From the team at Raxo in New York: “Scenes from an Urban Sunset is a study in lighting that uses the city itself as our main character – we worked with handcrafted 2D digital backgrounds and integrated 3D assets throughout the composition. [Watch]
Russian director/artist Sasha Svirsky, who originally graduated as a painter and then taught himself animation, just released his wonderfully eccentric, multi-award-winning short film “My Galactic Twin Galaction” online. [Watch]
UK 3D illustrator and animator AJ Jefferies, whose brilliant takes on silly animals you can watch here (horse) and here (goose), veers into the realm of very happy vegetables for his latest short film PEAS!. [Watch]
Using image and text prompts, ArtClass director Paul Trillo teams with Runway’s Gen-2 multi-modal AI system to explore memory and what might have been in this moody and melancholy new short film Thank You for Not Answering. [Watch]
CD Doug Alberts and his crew at Noodle in Chicago dial up the whimsy knob to 11 in this new in-house short combining 2D, 3D, and cel animation into a charming and cheerful exploration of pure fun. [Watch]
After a successful festival run, CalArts grad and Pixar animator Lucas Fraga Pacheco (Soul, Coco, Cars 3) just released his short film Sopro, a wonderfully told childhood drama, online. [Watch]
