Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
This mesmerizing short leads you through a brain-melting tour of animation and pop culture characters and styles.
Animated by Andreas Hykade via Studio FILM BILDER
The fun and whimsical animation we’ve come to expect out of the Goldfish videos and this track even adds a 3D fish butt to the mix. Yeah, I’d never seen a fish butt before either.
This PSA from Melbourne Metro teaches safety around metro trains.
A three-minute animated music video, written by McCann ECD John Mescall, is the centre piece of the campaign. The video highlights the many dumb ways there are to die, with being hit by a train – a very preventable death – among them.
Mescall said: “We’ve got people eating superglue, sticking forks in toasters and selling both their kidneys. But truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and we still couldn’t come up with dumber ways to die than driving around boomgates and all the other things people do to put themselves in harm’s way around trains. The aim of this campaign is to engage an audience that really doesn’t want to hear any kind of safety message – and we think dumb ways to die will.” via
This short won the BAFTA for short animation in 2004. From Studio AKA and directed by Marc Craste.
JO JO IN THE STARS is a 12 minute story of love, self-sacrifice, and jealousy played out against a black and white world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful.
[These are] failures of the natural selection. A set of strange creatures whose instincts instead of focusing on survival seem doomed them to an absurd and comic extinction, in the presence of the astonished gaze of the narrator.
This is also the story of the relationship between these creatures and its Narrator. The character of the Narrator was a documentary star, but unfortunately for him, the good times are over and he is forced to accept this strange documentary, which he considered far below its potential.
Written and directed by Guillermo Garcia Carsi, produced by El Señor Studio
Apparently not content with a great heavy beat and funky jazzy swingy melodies, the Goldfish have spun a few of their tracks into some fun and trippy animations.
Havana Heat is a steamy love letter to Good Books in the bodice-ripping language made famous by Mills & Boon books. This short joins the Thompsonesque Metamorphosis in the Good Books Great Writers campaign.
Animated by the duo mcbess and Simon of London-based The Mill.
Trying to get out of the weather and grit of the city a hungry fox wanders into The Henhouse Diner. This award winning short by Elena Pomares is beautifully drawn and has an understated humor throughout.
This film explores the fears and loneliness faced by ‘latchkey children’. A small girl stands alone in the pouring rain; she falls asleep on the sofa. Even in her dreams the little girl finds herself wandering about in a labyrinth of endless doors and walls.
From Playground Studio, directed by Lin Jung-Hsien.
From “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s album Straight outta Lynwood. Animated by Bill Plympton.
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