No Fat Clips!!!

The attempts of a little girl to catch a little devil are a good excuse to show some cartoony animation.
The short animation is the work of Tzanko, a student of the Vancouver Film School.
The story is inspired to the work of Elin Pelin, while visually you can easily guess the influence of John Kricfalusi.
Music [...]

A quirky short movie spotted by Ajit, a look at our lives, our habits, our shapes of mind.
The short movie has been written, directed and animated by Denizcan Yüzgül as his final project at the Czech Filmová škola Zlín.
Sound design and music by Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç. Edited by Denizcan Yüzgül and Michael Carrington. Visual [...]

No Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye

Well, it’s that time of the year when spooky tales and fancy costumes , so enjoy this short clip, the pilot episode of an animated series (yet yo produce) called Gotchi & Dootchi.
Gotchi and Dootchi are just regular weird guys living their regular weird lives. In this [...]

Ipronoun: used to refer to oneself as speaker or writer.noun: (plural I’s) the self, the ego.

Here’s another installment in the series based on speeches by Alan Watts. This one was produced by Mark Watts and South Park animator Chris Brion.
An interesting bit about how think about ourselves and how we feel about our identity. What [...]

You might want to cover your ears for this one…

In the fifth installment of Federator original series, the hipster brunch scene meets the 8-bit Nintendo rage of boxing icon, Mike Tyson.
The short is as usual the work of Dan Meth. Additional art by Joshua Jularbal and Josh Weisbrod. Audio design by Mark Vitelli. Devin Clark [...]

One summer’s day.

A classic horror tale.
“Held back by the lights, the boogeyman in the wall patiently waits. The boy was safe until, that night, his town’s power supply ran dry…”
The movie has been written and directed by Nick Forshee. Sound design by Greg Carlson at Sound Roast Sound. Narrated by Phil Barrons. Music by David [...]

Delays in NYC subway due to minotaur on the tracks.

The third episode of The Meth Minute 39 stars Penalty and Lloyd, two talk show hosts whose characters were created and performed by Dan Meth and Mark Vitelli.
Tonight they debate a hot topic: are Rush heavy metal or not? And what about Ray Charles?
Nel terzo episodio [...]

Shoot the dog!

We started from environment and I ended up talking about humanity and the responisibility carried by being human, like dealing with the consequences of your actions.
This short movie from 2001 deals with these issues, even though its main theme is apartheid in South Africa.
The director is Steve Pasvolsky, and the film was nominated [...]

Surprise!

Let’s finish this day like it began, with an unscheduled entry that doesn’t really seem exactly on topic. But it is. Let’s finish with a “what if”.
What if we played with time, making trees growing at our own speed, if we listened to their noises, their breathing?
The answer is in this two minutes short [...]

So let’s look at what – or who – is responsible for climate change.

A tongue-in-cheek public information film, actually realized for the Live Earth event, but hey… recycling is the key!
A Beginner’s Guide is designed, directed, animated and produced by Airside; and co-directed and written by Al MacCuish, a creative at Mother London.
From the same [...]

A lonely hedgehog tries to deliver a valentine and gain (at least) a hug in this cute animated short by Dan Pinto, with music by Paul Pinto.
It reminds me a lot of An Eye for Annai, but non in a wrong way, if you know what I mean…
Un porcospino solitario cerca di appioppare un [...]

Fincus!

The story of a kid, a cook, a fisherman, a stingy predator fish, his symbiotic partner, and a shipwreck, narrated with animated silhouettes.
Fresh winner at Adobe Design Achievement Award 2007, Fische und Schiffe (Fish and Ships) is a movie directed and animated by Axel Brötje, student of the Braunschweig School of Visual Arts.
All the characters, [...]

I’ve gone as far as I can go.

Plagued by a terrible disease, a man will find out how far he will go in order to get the treatment he needs to survive.
The short movie has been realized for the DVXuser Spy Fest 2007, where it was submitted in a shorter, six minutes long version. It [...]

Finish the fight!

Here’s the second part of Halo: Combat (here’s the first one ) which is actually the third part of a trilogy. Again, Neil Blomkamp directed with Weta doing the visual effects. The movie premiered as a viral for some Discovery Channel website. Go figure…
Will post a better clip as soon as available. Send [...]

A cubist character is unhappily trapped in Guernica. All around her is death, fighting, and destruction; she longs to get out and immerse herself in more peaceful landscape.
“She escapes her painted world and wanders the museum for a better place to live. She visits several different paintings, but ultimately realizes that she must create her [...]

The following cartoon will break the internet’s brain.

Following the tremendous hit, Internet People, the second installment in the online animated series by Dan Meth is a geeky joke on James Brown, voiced by Scott Zillitto.
Dopo il tremendo successo di Internet People, esce il secondo episodio della serie animata internettiana di Dan Meth, una boutade su [...]

Challenging me is a good thing.Beating me (Hmmmm..) only happens in your dreams.

That your field is boxing or rope jumping, there will be a time when you meet a challenge that is more than you can chew. Fail to realize that, and you’re knock out.
This short movie is the first installment in the Little Minx [...]

When is art ever easy?

Well, it’s 8PM and again I haven’t managed to encode a decent clip of the movie I was about to post (not the same as yesterday, though). So here’s a funny mockumentary from the year 2003.
The Man Behind the Motion tells the story of Michael White, motion capture artist, and the [...]