Tagged With: Short Film
Brighton International Animation Festival 2024
The 3-day international animation festival, running April 5-7 in Brighton, England encompasses a global perspective and provides an accessible venue for everyone to learn about animation.
Athens Animfest 2024
The oldest Greek animation festival returns virtually for its 19th edition March 28 – 31.
The CLU Animation Career Training Program Graduates its Third Class
Alongside celebrating commencement, the growing animation training program for neurodiverse adults announced festival screenings for ‘Willow’s Tale’ and new project slate for its affiliated animation studio Brainstorm Productions.
Academy Software Foundation Launches Digital Production Example Library
The ASWF kicks off the ‘Open Source Days’ event at SIGGRAPH 2022 with the announcement of its new DPEL, which encourages, curates, and publishes production-grade sample assets with a vendor-neutral platform.
‘Automaton’: The Beauty and Fury of the Elements Explored
Led by director Krzysztof Rost, a team of Pixar effects artists worked on their own time to produce an abstract, experimental CG short film depicting a field of grass destroyed by a brushfire, only to be reborn.
‘Bad Seeds’: Award-Winning Filmmaker Claude Cloutier is One to Watch
The Canadian filmmaker, known for films like ‘Carface’ and ‘Sleeping Betty,’ brings us a powerful tale of rivalry and greed, deftly played out with carnivorous plants.
‘Freebird’: Changing Hearts and Minds on the Realities of Down Syndrome
Writer/director Michael McDonald talks about the breakthrough animated short film that uses simple means for a powerful purpose.
Cartoon Network Debuts ‘Circle Time with Miss Ruby & Jessica’ Interstitial
The short features an animated Jessica from ‘Craig of the Creek’ talking to Ruby Bridges, civil rights icon and activist, about her experience as the first Black child integrated into an all-white school, and asking what kids can do to be peace makers.
New Animated Short Challenges Misconceptions About Down Syndrome
Intellectual disability charity L’Arche, animation studio Tonic DNA, and musician Jordan Hart’s powerful new 2D film, ‘Freebird,’ asks the important question, “Why does the world assume that a disabled life is not profoundly beautiful?”
Gritty, Visceral Noir: The Foo Fighters’ ‘No Son of Mine’ Music Video
Inspired by Frank Miller’s ‘Sin City’ graphic novel, Emlyn Davies takes audiences on a hard and fast ride, charting the spectrum of lusts – blood, money, drugs, and alcohol – while poking fun at self-righteous hypocrisy.
Real-Time Gaming Tech Shines in Heartwarming ‘Windup’ Animated Short
For Chinese director Yibing Jiang, Unity’s real-time tools enabled a small global team of artists to work quickly and efficiently, in parallel rather than sequentially, to produce a beautiful and touching film about the bond between a father and his ailing daughter.
Translating Simon Stålenhag's Art to the Screen in Duvchi's ‘Geronimo’ Music Video
The famed Swedish artist and Jens 'Duvchi' Duvsjö, with support from Staffan Linder and Goodbye Kansas Studios, discuss their collaborative creative process in depicting a mesmerizing VFX sequence that awakens prehistoric creatures.
Bomper Studio Announces Animation Contest
Studio challenges aspiring character animators to create their own 10-20 second animation; entry deadline is August 15, 2020.
‘Animation Show of Shows’ Now Streaming on Vimeo
With theatrical release on hold, four editions of beloved annual animation anthology, totaling 56 films, now available in special online presentations.
The 49th Edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam Coming January 22 - February 2, 2020
IFFR returns to Rotterdam with its commitment to support and promote independent filmmaking by talented new artists.
Fresh Takes: The Psychedelic VFX of ‘Dog in the Woods’
Directing duo Christian Chapman and Paul Jason Hoffman’s micro-budget film, their debut narrative short and first use of visual effects, envisions the wild sensory experiences of a German Shepherd’s late-night forest prowl.
Aggregate Animated Shorts OPEN CALL - Third Annual International Experimental Animated Short Film Festival
ASG is pleased to announce our “Third Annual International Experimental Animated Short Film Festival”.
WATCH: Disney Junior Releases New ‘Fancy Nancy’ Animated Nursery Rhyme
AWN readers get to watch ‘A Tisket, a Tasket’ ahead of its August 13 premiere, the latest addition to the growing short collection aimed at the network's youngest fans.
Pictures from the Brainbox: A Weekly Dose of Indie Animation - 'Symphony No. 42'
Pictures from the Brainbox: A Weekly Dose of Indie Animation - 'Six God Alphabet Peter'
Every Monday or so, Chris Robinson asks an animator how they made a particular film. Today, Peter Millard answers some brand new Brainbox questions whilst sharing intimate words, thoughts and feelings about his film, 'Six God Alphabet' (2017).
Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2018
Edinburgh Short Film Festival - Submissions Now Open for 2018!
Screening the best in International contemporary short film across 8 nights in Edinburgh each Autumn (& programming for other festivals across the UK & Internationally) the ESFF is now open for submission for short film-makers globally!
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Calls for Entries
European Animation Awards Nominees Announced
‘The Thief and the Cobbler’ director Richard Williams will receive the inaugural Lotte Reiniger Life Time Achievement Award.
What are all those paint men digging? - 'Garden Party'
very Monday or so, Chris Robinson asks an animator how they made a particular film. This week: the French student hit, Garden Party (2016)