Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
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).
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.
A beautiful bittersweet tale of love and loss.
From the students at Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Interactive and Digital Media (nyp/sidm)
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.
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.
A good late Friday night video by Etienne de Crécy.
The animation is done by his brother Geoffroy de Crécy. I like the animation style – a kind of Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) meets Rankin/Bass. Will dig into his stuff and report back.
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