Short Pick Of The Day: ‘The Comet’ by Christian Stangl
An animated short based on photographs from the Rosetta space probe.
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Short Pick Of The Day: ‘The Tesla World Light’ by Matthew Rankin
Winner of the Canadian Screen Award for best animated short, “The Tesla World Light” makes its free online debut today.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Frustration’ by Milán Kopasz
Our Short Pick of the Day, a striking mix of pixilation and collage, comes from Hungary’s MOME animation school.
‘Going Fishing’ By Guldies
An animated short made with 2,500 still pictures.
‘Dead Reckoning’ by Paul Wenninger and Susan Young
Death is always there, right in front of us.
‘Imagination’ by Marc Donahue
As children, we viewed the world through the lenses of our imaginations. The carpet became lava, the shadows formed monsters, the family minivan was a spaceship…
An Appreciation of Twitter’s Vine Format
Twitter’s six-second looping video platform, Vine, is not revolutionary, but it is an important evolutionary development in online video. …
“Trim” by Peter Simon
Reverse beard pixilation is done so often it’s almost an animation meme, but there’s always room for one more, especially when it’s as …
Stop-Motion Saturn
Designer Chris Abbas downloaded a public domain archive of still images captured by NASA’s Cassini Solstice Mission and composited them …
“Milk Crate Sea Dragon”
Been meaning to post this for months – a fun little animated promo for Australia’s Awesome Waste of Time contest website. If anyone knows …
“Bow Tie Duty for Squareheads” by Stephan Flint Muller
Berlin-based Stephan Flint Müller has made plenty of films in his young career, but my favorite remains his 2004 short Bow Tie Duty for …
“FIVE” by Moritz Reichartz and Andrea Éva Györi
Memorably surreal images–alternately beautiful and disturbing–populate the world of FIVE (FÃœNF), a pixilation short by Moritz …
“N.Y.C. (No York City)” by Rick Liss
“N.Y.C. (No York City)” by Rick Liss is a deliriously energetic pixilation tour of early-Eighties New York, where crime was rampant and …
“Hotcorn!” by Juan Pablo Zaramella
Another simple and well-executed visual idea by Juan Pablo Zaramella, whose film At the Opera appeared on the Brew last month. Hotcorn! …
“Timber” by Adam Fisher
Adam Fisher, an animator at Laika, created Timber in his spare time. It’s worth a chuckle, and finishes off with a nice message.
“Heart of Glass” by Alon Chitayat
Alon Chitayat directed this cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” performed by Berlin band Skin Diary. The video skillfully combines …
“The Hunt” by Double Triple
This visually striking video for WOOM’s “The Hunt,” loosely retelling the myth of Persephone, was animated entirely with natural …
“Into the Cosmos” by Chopsy
Something for the vinyl heads: “Into the Cosmos” was directed by Chopsy (aka Darren Robbie). The short asks, “What happens to all the old …
