Meet Rene Fustercluck, one of two men left standing after the man-made apocalypse and the comic lynchpin of Sam Southward’s spectacular (and not altogether SFW) graduation film “After the End” produced at the National Film and Television School in London. [Watch]
Forty-four third year Bachelor of Art and Design students at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand turn the jet-black humor of Edward Gorey’s “Accidents, Blunders and Calamitiesis” loose on 30 unlucky CG creatures in this mini-masterwork of seamless VFX and beat-perfect comic timing. [Watch]
The genre of animal love triangles slips into murderous new territory in “Chaud Lapin,” the carefully rendered graduation film directed and animated by Supinfocom Arles students Géraldine Gaston, Alexis Magaud, Flora Andrivon, Maël Berreur, and Soline Bejuy. [Watch]
A full-on jolt of visual caffeine, Stash 117 adds another 31 stellar video projects to the Stash Permanent Collection – the planet’s largest online archive of design, animation and VFX, plus behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews. [Watch]
The bumper crop of student films from the 2016 CalArts Character Animation program includes “You Look Scary” by Xiya Lan and “Desert Critters” by Li Wen Toh – both demonstrate outstanding storytelling talents while using fully divergent styles, techniques and narrative structures. [Watch]
With the addition of issue 116, the Stash Permanent Collection now features 4,400 of the planet’s most innovative and inspiring design, animation and VFX projects – plus behind-the-scenes features and exclusive interviews with the creative and production talent behind the work. [Watch]
