South Korean director/animator Deekay Kwon reveals the illustration and rigging secrets behind his new looping short film “Virtual Game” – continuing his signature mix of cute characters, snappy animation, and sharp social observation. [Watch]
3D artist/animator Greg Cooper in Melbourne, Australia:”Conceptions is an excursion of the fundamentals that underpin creativity. Three kinetic sculptures represent the development of ideas as they converge from noise to pattern. [Watch]
Director/animator Levent Lee: “This is a personal project I did in my spare time working about 3-5 hours every night for six months. The background of the story is that when you become the last AI creature that will disappear, you accept the change and become a completely different version of yourself, or return to your original life.” [Watch]
Ordinary Folk in Vancouver: “If you have a half-hour to kill, try saying ‘flibbertigibbet’ three times fast. If you only have 20 seconds, watch this film and listen to each of us trying to say it once.” [Watch]
For the 11th year, the Australian mega-conference Pause Fest was the catalyst for a series of short films called Pause Originals where artists “regain creative control, experiment, collaborate, and gain valuable industry exposure.” [Watch]
If you find the pretense of impossibly pristine CG architectural visualizations growing a tad thin, you’re going to love the twist in this new film from directors Ezequiel Pini and Sebastian Baptista at Six N. Five in Barcelona. [Watch]
