From the team at Fern in Atlanta: “Twitter’s Safety Mode helps fight online harassment, an issue that impacts a small but highly-visible group of people (including celebrities, athletes, female journalists, and marginalized communities) by giving them a tool to automatically block spammy, uninvited, harassing, or abusive replies. [Watch]
Director and designer Somei Sun in Shanghai, China: “In 2019, Chinese video sharing website Bilbili launched the Small Universe Project to encourage students and independent animators to submit domestic animation short films. In order to discover more outstanding creators, this year, they announced that it would upgrade the project to a broader Light-Seeking plan for groups.” [Watch]
From the team at Buck: “Together with Coda, we dreamed up arresting combinations of animals, plants, and tools that represent the powerful mash-ups of productivity possible within a Coda doc.” [Watch]
London director/editor Riccardo Fusetti describes his newest personal short film Generation (a visceral mix of live-action, rotoscoping, stock footage, and AI) as “A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.” [Watch]
Director Kforce Chen and his team at K4s Motion Studio in Taipei mix together typography, minimalist illustrations, and snappy motion to create a stylishly quirky video promo for the annual Puppet Theatre Festival held in western Taiwan’s Yunlin County. [Watch]
From the release: Monarch Media, Point Grey Pictures, LYLAS Pictures, and Vancouver animation studio Giant Ant are teaming up to bring the acclaimed graphic novel Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me, by Sarah Leavitt, to the big screen as a feature-length animated film. Giant Ant principal Leah Nelson is directing. Trev Renney, […] [Watch]
