SHOWCASE
SHOWCASE
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Tundra by Picturesmith Studio
Our latest pick is a paper-cutout piece from London’s Picturesmith studio. We recently sat down (digitally) with animator Christian Hopkins to hear about the production of “Tundra.”
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Waste Away by Elly Stern
“Waste Away” is the BFA thesis film of Elly Stern, a BFA student at Massachusetts College of Art & Design. With a haunting Musical score by Daniel Hass, the piece is a dystopic short with timely social, environmental and public health themes.
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Intro to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: Home Edition by Lawrence Becker
As quarantine projects go, making the new intro for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: Home Edition likely trumps most people’s sourdough loaves and garage make-overs—especially if you’re an animator. For director Lawrence Becker, who has been using felt-cutouts as his trademark style since 2016, it was certainly pretty exciting when the Cartuna team approached…
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I’m OK by Lizzy Hobbs
The film is about the artist Oskar Kokoschka at a dramatic period of his life. His lover Alma Mahler had ended their relationship and sent him off to fight in the First World War…The film is about that little period of time around 1914, when there was plenty of passion and drama in his life.…
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Rebooted by Michael Shanks
It’s not easy for a movie-star to age – especially when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton monster. “Rebooted” tells the story of Phil–a Harryhausen-esque Stop-motion-Animated Skeleton, who is struggling to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out of date special effect.