Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
This NFBC short was both an Oscar and Annie selection in 2012 and tells the story of a boy’s attempts to fend off boredom. The grandma’s candy dish resonated particularly with me.
A Frankensteinian hero is made, not born.
Directed by Victoria Lopez and Ji Young Na at Ringling College of Art + Design
This was a difficult short for me. It encapsulates the process of addiction, something I know far too much about.
From Andreas Hykade and Angela Steffen at Studio Film Bilder.
When a magnifying glass ‘malfunctions’ it can make for a through-the-looking-glass moment.
By Gervasio Rodríguez Traverso and Pablo Alberto Díaz of Trexel Animation Studios (Argentina).
An excellent video to re-start the Friday night music video tradition! Fun animation and image manipulation set to a snappy, classic, tune. This one’s going into the Shiny Things file.
Animated by Nina Paley and sung by the one and only Pointer Sisters.
Somehow this seems an appropriate bit for Thanksgiving.
Directed and animated by Eric Darnell in 1991. On Liquid Television’s 17th episode (s03e01)
Not all of Chess is about war.
By Sana Srinivasan and Kyle Lopez, produced at Ringling College of Art and Design.
Much like The Last Day of War, also by animator Dima Fedotov, automated war machines have been left to carry on their missions with the passing of man.
By Alli Norman and Carla Lutz (Squash and Stretch), from the Ringling College of Art and Design.
A news writer has nothing new to report on until his neighbor from the comics section takes him on an adventure.
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