Director/animator/illustrator Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa, who co-directed this bitter-sweet grad film at Gobelins in 2021, just dropped a very intriguing trailer for a nightmarish animated series called Playground. [Watch]
If you love character design and animation, you’ll find the ultimate blend of both in the incredibly diverse shorts programs just announced by the always-fabulous Pictoplasma Festival which takes over Berlin May 3–7. [Watch]
On March 23, the new HBO Max original series Only You: An Animated Shorts Collection went to air featuring eight films created by 12 underrepresented artists responding to the prompt “What’s a story only you can tell?” [Watch]
Sergio Saleh, CD at LUMBRE studio in Buenos Aires: “No brief. No feedback. No deadline. We created this Tiki series for ourselves from ideas we had floating around mixed with various whims that popped up in the process.” [Watch]
The latest CG short film from Athens-based director and 3D artist Dimitrios Sakkas visualizes the struggles of life as a series of obsessively detailed natural vignettes in a very personal project titled Reborn. [Watch]
Wildly successful on the festival circuit (94 screenings and many awards), the short film “At First Sight” by Dutch artist/animator Sjaak Rood is finally available online in all its splattery, visceral, and emotional glory. [Watch]
