If Hikari Toriumi’s poignant 4th year Calarts film “Polaris” (about a young polar bear leaving home for the first time ) doesn’t make you tear up, seek help. [Watch]
First year CalArts Character Animation student Chalky Wong combines prodigious drafting skills, an organic feel for visual storytelling, plus careful attention to the emotional quotient of his characters. [Watch]
CalArts Character Animation student Chia-Hsin Lee takes the road less travelled by restricting the lead character of his short film “In an Empty Wood” to the role of narrator. [Watch]
Both striking and surreal, “Hypertrain” was completed by Etienne Kompis and Fela Bellotto as their graduation film while studying 2D-animation together at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. [Watch]
Painstaking detail and careful rendering elevate this sweet CG film about the courtship and reunion of two model trains created by Fabien Meyran during his fourth year at French animation school Supinfocom Rubika. [Watch]
What do two hours of motion brilliance look like hyper-compressed into just two minutes? Correct, exactly like this trailer for Stash 128. [Watch]
