goodbye mr. de vries by halberstad
2013-12-25
Another gift lands on our doorstep with this subtle and powerful piece of filmmaking from veteran animator and director Mascha Halberstad. Inspired by a real person, the touching and exquisitely crafted short has skated around the world’s film circuit, taking winner’s place at the International Short and Animation Film Awards at the Schlingel Film Festival,
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2013-12-10
Christmas has indeed come early this year. The excitement mounts as Laika releases a tantalizingly gorgeous peak at the behind the scenes art construction and animation wizardry of their upcoming feature “Box Trolls”. The film uses Dragonframe and releases September 26, 2014. It is more than kind to provide a look into this box. Blog
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2013-12-10
Amazing cardboard control meets good clean fun in Edu Puertas‘ bathroom adventure, “Foamy”. We can’t wait to see what smoothly mischievous animation Puertas and the team at Citoplasmas whips up next.
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the cycle by ashman
2013-11-20
Jessica Ashman, at the RCA, gives us a miraculous lesson in biology with “the Cycle.” It reads like an awesome mashup of Brazil with a 70’s educational film, also calling to mind Japanese director/animator Katsuhito Ishii‘s sweet and strange organic twistiness. This poor girl’s parts may not coordinate very well, but Ashman’s film certainly does.
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the bear & the hare by blink
2013-11-15
Blinkink delivers yet another masterfully executed production, this time mixing 2D hand drawn animation with stop motion. This is part of their ongoing series of commercials for John Lewis Insurance in the UK. Blink here employs both Dragonframe and the Arc Motion Control VOLO crane. Beautiful lighting and richly detailed sets in this spot, that’s,
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