Tagged With: Short Films
‘My Dad’ Wins Slamdance Animation Prize
Director Marcus Armitage wins the jury award for short animation for ‘My Dad’; Josh Shaffner receives an honorable mention for his short film ‘Flaws.’
U.K. Short ‘Edmond’ Wins Top Animation Award at Sundance 2016
Short Film Jury Award in Animation goes to the U.K.’s ‘Edmond’ from director Nina Gantz; U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing is given to Penny Lane and Thom Stylinski for animated documentary ‘NUTS!’
NFB Announces Hothouse 11 Participants
For the first time, Hothouse animators will be able to work with NFB’s Oscar-winning Animation Studio via their closest NFB production center.
Interstate Welcomes Directorial Duo TOMAT
ABC Sets Valentine’s Day ‘Peanuts’ Specials for February 12
2002 Peanuts special, ‘Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown,’ along with the classic 1975 ‘A Charlie Brown Valentine,’ set to air on Friday, February 12.
GIRAF Announces 2015 Winners, Opens 2016 Call for Entries
‘Le repas dominical’ by Celine Devaux named best international short; ‘Tarboz’ by Chad VanGaalen wins best Canadian short; Seth Boyden’s ‘An Object at Rest’ wins audience award.
GLAS Animation Festival Announces Special Guest Henry Selick
GLAS Animation Festival announces inaugural competition jury members, including Jeremy Clapin, Hisko Hulsing, Kirsten Lepore, Nobuaki Doi, Sara Gunnardottir, Gerben Schermer, Rachel Ho, Brooke Keesling, Linda Simensky, Tom Brown, Tom Fulp and Peter Millard.
Motion Picture Sound Editors Announce 2016 Golden Reel Nominations
‘Anomalisa,’ ‘Hotel Transylvania 2,’ ‘Inside Out,’ ‘Minions,’ ‘Shaun The Sheep Movie,’ ‘The Good Dinosaur’ and ‘The Peanuts Movie’ nominated for best sound editing in an animated feature film.
Stop-Motion Short Celebrates 350 Years of The London Gazette
U.K. production company Lambda Films collaborates with animator Eleanor Wright to produce a stop-motion animated short film celebrating the 350th birthday of the longest-running English print newspaper.
Nominations Unveiled for France’s César Awards
Best Animated Feature contenders are ‘Adama,’ directed by Simon Rouby; ‘April and the Twisted World,’ directed by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci; and ‘The Little Prince,’ directed by Mark Osborne.
Frankie Powers The Master Chief’s Inaugural Adventure in ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach’
The Sequence Group taps Cospective’s cloud-based review and approval toolset to create a 3D-animated cinematic for AAA game franchise.
O2 Filmes Grades Virtual Reality Music Video with DaVinci Resolve Studio
Brazilian production and post house uses DaVinci Resolve 12 Studio to color grade Ivete Sangalo’s new virtual reality music video, ‘O Farol.’
CG-Animated Sci-Fi Short ‘Empsillnes’ Now Online
HAFF Announces World Premieres of ‘Ticking Away’ and ‘Löss’
Dutch shorts ‘Ticking Away,’ by Michael Sewnarain, and ‘Löss,’ by Yi Zhao, join Igor Kovalyov’s ‘Before Love’ in the Holland Animation Film Festival 2016 international shorts competition.
‘Giant’ Delivers Cinematic VR Experience at Sundance
Five-minute VR film experience created by developers Jack Caron, Todd Bryant, Omer Shapira and Uros Otasevic and shot in 6K is rendered using the Unreal Engine 4 game engine accelerated by NVIDIA Quadro M6000 GPUs.
Aaardman Creates Stephen Hawking Short, ‘Inside His Head’
A visual kaleidoscope celebrating Hawking’s journey, short film is brought to life with stylized imagery and scientific diagrams to accompany the renowned scientist’s lecture about the theory of black holes, ‘Hawking Radiation and Thermodynamics.’
‘Don’t Hug Me’ Directors Becky & Joe Help Save Lives with ‘Nursery Rhymes Inc.’
Directorial duo designs, crafts and puppeteers new PSA campaign for St. John Ambulance to help make baby CPR as easy as remembering a nursery rhyme.
ShortsHD Sends 2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films to Theaters on January 29
World’s only short movie channel to showcase famed Oscar shorts release with theatrical premieres of live-action, animated and documentary short categories.
New York Int’l Short Film Festival Wants Your Shorts
The New York International Short Film Festival is now accepting submissions of live-action, documentary and animated short films and videos; the deadline for entries is February 13.
New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival Previews 2016 Feature Slate
Running Feb. 26-March 20, animated feature slate includes special preview screenings of Funimation’s ‘The Boy and The Beast’ and Mark Osborne’s ‘The Little Prince.’
Blacklist & Studio AKA Tell the Sweetest Story Ever Told About Salt
Blacklist and Studio AKA craft a 90-second short film for Morton Salt that provides a dog’s eye view of the changing winter landscape and how it affects family pets and their backyard best-friendships.
MPC Creative Creates Faraday Future Film and VR Experience for CES 2016
MPC’s content production arm produces a film and VR experience for CES 2016 highlighting the performance of Faraday Future’s technology platform with the FFZERO1 high-performance electric dream car.
HAFF Unveils 2016 Feature Film Competition Selections
2016 edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival to include the world premiere of Igor Kovalyov’s short film, ‘Before Love.’