IADT National Film School student Connor Finnegan created this amusing tale of one cloud’s misadventures by mixing stop-motion, live action and hand drawn animation - the graduate film was shot in Finnegan’s attic using a collection of DSLRs borrowed from friends and family.
The collaborative animated film and web project known as Coalition of the Willing is now fully complete. Directed by the Knife Party, written by Tim Rayner, and animated by network of 24 artists, the project encourages all to utilize the power of new Internet technologies toward online activism in the fight against global warming.
Watch Coalition of the Willing
27 year old French filmmaker Yoann Lemoine has directed a new short film for Vogue Italia and Asvoff Milano. The spot experiments with dark and light as well as focusing on mortality. All post was done by One More Production in Paris.
Watch: Lights
Behold, the first episode in a series of shorts about the giant kind from young directing duo Celine&Yann - last seen in Stash with Gary. Each short will feature a new moment between the massive ones and their conflicts with humans. Sound design: David Kamp. Visit the director’s blog for a preview of what is yet to come.
Watch Giant Army Ep. 1
There’s so much to love in this electrified animated short from director Maxime Paccalet. Bawdy and fantastic, this one won us over with the opening shot of a doodle gone dirty. Production: Kawanimation.
Watch “Café Allongé”
Stunning new CG short by David Viau and those talented kids at Superfad – built on a poem by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda.
Thanks to Alba for the tip.
Commissioned by Dublin’s Darklight Festival 4 Day Movie project, this quirky short shows the stark contrast between the real and virtual lives of four online gamers. Mo-cap was used to place the in-game identities within the mundane day to day reality of their real selves. Production: Piranha Bar.
Watch “Avatar Days”
Here are the second series of stylish branded films from Sheffield based design lord Matt Pyke of Universal Everything. Created for AOL and launched at the New Museum in New York they can also be seen popping up as web video and on outdoor LED displays.
Commissioned by Wolff Olins NYC. CD: Matt Pyke, Animation: Chris Perry (Universal Everything), Michael Merron (Analog Studio). Sound: Simon Pyke at Freefarm.
Watch AOL Phase 02
Now presenting Fly and Blind Date, two new shorts directed by Alan Short and Nigel Davies respectively created under Aardman Animations self-funded short film programme.
Short on Fly; “This set up is the premise for a series of silly gags, in the style of a homage to such animation greats as Tex Avery and Chuck Jones.” Davies about Blind Date; ”I set the film in a timeless place where there are Victorian piers, wind farms and lighthouses still inhabited by people who dress for dinner and have broadband internet connections.”
Watch Fly and Blind Date
Reaching into three years of digital scrapbooking for inspiration, graphic design studio FIELD have open the flood gates for this striking experimental short titled Muse. Led by designers Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn, the work is inspired by Evernote, the field.io/process blog, as well as favorites tagged in Google Reader and Flickr realized into this sea of color and sound.
“With Muse we would like to touch on the controversial nature of the internet’s sharing culture. By using other people’s work in our film we acknowledge the impact of referencing and mimicking on the creative process, while originality, authorship, and crediting remain sensitive topics in a world where images spread like chinese whispers.”
Commissioned by Netfilmmakers Gallery, Copenhagen
Soundtrack: David Kamp
Watch “Muse”
Powerful new short film from UK director/animator Matt Frodsham. You may remember his project “Blokes” from last year which was the winner of the Shortcuts Film Festival. “Basically, I shot footage of myself for the motion capture then edited and exported to an image sequence and traced away in Photoshop any spare minute I could get with a Wacom tablet doing a black and a white layer… back into After Effects, lots of blending modes and a few keyframes and not a lot to the compositing…”
Watch “Two Inches to the Right”
Quickly racking up the views on YouTube, “Love & Theft” is currently competing for the top prize in the National Film Board of Canada’s 6th Online contest. Directed by German animator Andreas Hykade, you’ll spend most of the 7 minutes of this morphing loop animation trying to spot iconic animated characters from the likes of Disney, Fleischer, Larkin and Plympton.
Watch “Love & Theft”
Armed with $5k, a RED camera and a faithful crew of believers, Ricardo de Montreuil sets out to make a dent in Hollywood with The Raven a sci-fi action short he also co-wrote, co-produced and edited.
“The Return of John Frum” is Christian Schlaeffer’s exceptional thesis from The University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, Germany. You can almost see the blood, sweat and tears that Christian put in to this film, and we are absolutely blown away by the brilliance of this work and really excited for this young director’s future. Bravo Christian!
Watch “The Return of John Frum”
