From 1A4 Studios, a Moscow based uh… animation studio? At least, I think they’re in Moscow. Am not actually sure on any details beside the name as my Russian is about as good as Google Translate which well… didn’t do so good there. But anyhow, this short condenses The Matrix into a fun 60 seconds and is the second in a hopefully on-going series.
Also, their other series Animirus is definitely worth a watch too; particularly Postmas, Scio and aw hell, all of them really. Go nuts.
Made almost entirely by Kaleb Lechowski, this impressive 6 minute short depicts a sci-fi world in conflict, as told through the interrogation of an alien combatant by its machine captor(s).
Short and smartly told, this is of course is made all the more impressive given the fact that Lechowski wrote, directed and animated this entirely by himself over a seven month period. It’s very well told and I especially liked the lighting and texture effects on display here. I have little idea how much easier it is to render that kind of detail these days, but it is mighty good work.
Some would (and have) nit-pick the fluidity of character movements and other aspects, but those people are assholes who can’t also say that they’ve made an entire animated film by themselves too (unless they’re Don Hertzfeldt or Makoto Shinkai, but I doubt that).
As The LEGO Group celebrates its 80th Birthday, we take a look back at its history with this short animated film.
An official selection at this year’s Sundance film festival, this animated short was Julia Pott’s theses at London’s Royal Colloge of Art in 2011. Mixing various styles and symbolisms, Belly tells a beautiful coming of age story that is both wonderfully weird and mildly terrifying.
Like the from love to bingo ad; the lads at Evernone have made this short film that compiles hundreds of ball and ball shaped images (sourced mostly from Google Image Search) and set to the sounds of good ol’ Bach. Nice.
On the 30th of September 2011, in front of a sell-out theatre at the BFI in London, Charlie Kaufman delivered the final lecture in BAFTA’s 2011 Screenwriters’ Lecture Series.
Juxtaposing extracts of Kaufman’s speech and complimentary visuals, filmmaker Eliot Rausch has made one helluva good short; and further solidifying the theory that anything involving Charlie Kaufman is gold.
The full 70 minute lecture can be found here.
This graduate short film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo depicts a future enhanced with bio-augmented reality and a sinister consequence of that technology.
Here’s another dialogue-less short film; this time, a touching story about a bullied kid who – with a piece of chalk (iseewhatyoudidthere) – uses a creative outlet to overcome.
Also, the kid (Justen Beer) is amazing.