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Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
A beautiful bittersweet tale of love and loss.
From the students at Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Interactive and Digital Media (nyp/sidm)
An older music video, but I do love Mr. Scruff and the Trouser Jazz album is about his best I think.
Albert the Squirrel’s scarf is missing. During his search he gives thoughtful advice to his forest neighbors. What a happy little story. Right?
Narrated by the incomparable George Takei. Animated by Eoin Duffy.
A delightful little animation that will make you look at rain storms just a bit differently.
Animated by Jacob Streilein.
Three words: Robot. Laser. Dinosaurs. That alone makes this a most excellent video – add a track from my favorite Celldweller album End of an Empire and you’ve got the ultimate Saturday Night Occasional Music Video.
Animation by Animattronic.
Dogs have photobombed important pictures since the beginning of photography. Now imagine how the dog of a powerful alien race would do it. Omry Fisher from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design does.
The animation style feels like it’s straight out of the pages of a Heavy Metal mag. It has a style rather reminiscent of Moebius or Bilal with a gritty, saturated, feel that conveys both bleak horrors and dawning hopes. Beautifully done with a well told story. By Dima Fedotov
It has been twenty years since the last Great War broke out. All people are dead, but automatons continue [to] obediently follow orders. On the computerized base, machines fuel and charge the weapons of [the] last surviving bomber as it prepares to drop bombs on a long dead enemy city.
Break out the bell-bottoms and whatever else you need for a trip back into the 70’s on a Peter Maxian outing with the Telemetry Orchestra.
Directed by TO’s own Steve Scott.
Sometimes the truth isn’t quite what it appears to be.
From the students at Gobelins, School of Images, Paris, France.
The royal couple can’t seem to get their Princess daughter married off so they come up with a plan…
From the talented students at ESMA (École Supérieure des Métiers Artistique), Toulouse, France.
Directed by Sandy Bienvenut, Alexandra Condoure, Vincent Dromart, Nicolas Quinssac, and Mathieu Ringot.