Los Angeles freelance art director and designer CJ Cook reveals the design and motion process behind “Totems,” his personal experiment with “colors, camera moves, and different kinds of animation.” [Watch]
Jumping confidently between animation techniques including stop-motion, UPA-influenced 2D, and golden age black and white, 2nd year CalArts student Mathieu Libman ruminates on life, love, and small blessings in disguise with “Pinky Toe.” [Watch]
American feature film directing icon John Carpenter takes us back to a log cabin in Kentucky and unfolds a formative childhood memory in this wonderful film by Barcelona’s Device for the Primavera Sound festival. [Watch]
Cartoon Network’s Gumball and Darwin Watterson face nonstop peril and pandemonium in this skateboard sequence courtesy of London animator Simon Landrein (aka half of Passion directing duo McBess and Simon). [Watch]
South Korean animator/illustrator Seoro Oh takes the head-nodding battle against ill-timed drowsiness we all know well to it’s logical extreme in his 2D graduation film “Afternoon Class” [Watch]
Moonbot directors Limbert Fabian and Brandon Oldenburg combine CG and a 30 x 40-foot practical model to create “Escape,” a five-minute animated brand film for Dolby “about the world-changing power of invention.” [Watch]
