From Freshly Baked Animation: “Freshly Baked is an international team, and right now its members are scattered over France, Denmark, and Ireland. Recently we had the chance to gather in a house in the French countryside and make Au Coin du Feu (By the Fireplace), a short film about the small things we can enjoy in everyday life with the people close to us. [Watch]
Art directors/motion designers Swann and Yoann Chesnel (aka Thanksbro) in Paris: “On lockdown, we took advantage of our free time to plunge into our old travel pictures. From them was born the idea to tell a story from visual universes.” [Watch]
Former Pixar animator Erick Oh (Finding Dory, Inside Out, Brave, etc.) breaks free from narrative logic in this six-minute parade of absurdist characters lead by Gunther, a mischievous sausage with an uncontrollable urge to dance. [Watch]
Director Ben Brand: “When my girlfriend told me the story of spreading her deceased grandmother’s ash over the sea (like a lot of people around the world do) I started wondering what actually happens to all that ash.” [Watch]
Artist/animator Case Jernigan in Brooklyn, NY: “The idea behind Stories in Place is simple: empower Vimeo’s community of creators to do what they do best (tell great stories) and shine a light on the small businesses they love.
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If your quarantine fatigue includes a growing aversion to be-nice-to-each-other messages, Swiss director/animator Lorenz Wunderle and the crew at YK Animation in Bern have the perfect antidote. [Watch]
