Category: Animation

Impeccable instruments of torture for start of the day!

Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a battle between the present and the future state of mind. A dream-like war with yourself and other objects that seem to take a life of its own.

Directed by Moo-Hyun Jang
Country: South Korea

“Trouble Brewing” is an animated short film starring a protective nanny goat, her rambunctious kid, and a mysterious troll. The film is in production at Cogswell Polytechnical College in the heart of Silicon Valley California.

Project X Productions is a unique, project-based course that exposes Cogswell students to every element of animation production, allowing them to hone their skills and experience an industry-standard production pipeline. Accepted students tackle all concept and character design, modeling, texturing, effects, rigging, lighting, rendering, animation, compositing and production management in collaboration with faculty and industry advisors.

Director: Timothy Heath

There is one primitive man who is brave and ignorant. He has a fatal weakness, which is weak for the weak! Then one day an unidentified egg appears in front of it, and an episode for breaking the solid egg is unfurled.

Running Time: 6m 20sec.
Production: Jeong Ho Jeong, Jung Min Hyung, Jung Kyu Tae, Park Sung Bok, Youngsoo Kim, Jae Yong Bae, Kang Seokho
Music: Son Han Mook

A clever, heroic post-apocalyptic film with spectacular animation and soundtrack!

Plot: After the seas have disappeared, a courageous young female pilot fights against vicious sky pirates for control of the last remaining source of water: the clouds.

The animation of the aircraft are first-class. The dry desert environment was both haunting and realistic. Lots of little touches gave the animation amazing realism, such as the cracked lenses in the binoculars, the weathered planes, and the detritus on the floor bed of the ocean. The orchestral soundtrack suited the piece perfectly and was of equal quality to that heard in any major movie.

Directed by Lucas Martell

A lovely little film about love!

An unlikely connection sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.

The most accurate depiction of cats and dogs I’ve ever seen in any movie!

Directed by Rosanna Sullivan
Country: USA
Runtime: 9 min
Produced by: Pixar Animation Studios

A hand drawn animation short film about a man struggling to save his dog in a futuristic metropolis.

Plot:
Following his dog’s kidnapper through a relentlessly moving city, the warmhearted vagabond Dio discovers how far society has gone to keep up its pace.

Pedro Ivo Carvalho is based in Aarhus, Denmark. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Character Animation from The Animation Workshop where he worked as director and animator on the bachelor film “Vagabond”, a dystopian 2d short film.

Directed by Pedro Ivo Carvalho
Written by Talía Bordallo

Fun James Bondesque spy comedy with amazing animation

Plot:
Agent 327 is investigating a clue that leads him to a shady barbershop in Amsterdam. Little does he know that he is being tailed by mercenary Boris Kloris.

The animation (Blender) is impressive as it has great detail, and really has the Pixar-blockbuster look but on a much smaller budget. Importantly, the animation is not just a technical piece of work, it also gets the delivery just right; the action and setpieces are played out with good comedic timing, and it makes good use of movement of the ‘camera’ and scenery.

Directed by Hjalti Hjalmarsson and Colin Levy
Starring Thom Hoffman

Pixar’s WALL-E-Esque Short Film

Smash and Grab are two robots who, true to their names, smash and grab glowing rocks to use as fuel for a constantly moving train on a futuristic Mars-like planet. The two are attached to cords that constantly charge them and prevents them from leaving their jobs. To beat the boredom, the two partake in tossing and catching the rocks to throw into the furnace. After many failed attempts, they succeed and try to high-five one another, but are held back by their charging cords.

Smash and Grab is an experimental Pixar animated short film from a new division of the studio as part of Pixar’s SparkShorts series.

Written and directed by Brian Larsen

Oscar for Best Animated Short Film Winner!

A young and bright-eyed Sandpiper is motivated by her mother to start hunting for food along with the rest of the flock in the sandy seashore. However, the tiny bird is still terrorised by the surfs that break on the ocean’s shoreline, unable to take care of herself. Poor little Piper, growing up is difficult, nevertheless, your caring mother believes in you.

Irrepressibly adorable film!

Piper is a 2016 computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Alan Barillaro, it was theatrically released alongside Pixar’s Finding Dory on June 17, 2016. At the 89th Academy Awards it won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Like many of Pixar’s shorts it has a lot more depth than can be expected in a short running time, and the unique aspect to this is how the birds and ocean moves so closely as to how in life that it’s only incredible that it wasn’t done via digital-rendering on actual animals.

Directed by Alan Barillaro.

Fight the system, regardless of your age!

Four pensioners in a nursing home while watching their favorite soap opera when the Evil Nurse confiscates the TV remote!

Jamais Sans Mon Dentier – Never Without My Denture Short Film by Alice Coutelle, Thomas Dibet , Hugo Favre, Eliette Gibaud, Cerise Grefferat, Guillaume Jarrosson, Thi Bich Pham, Thibault Spieser, Nolwenn Grignon, Jordan Parrin.

An ex-scientist turned fugitive must save the city from the fatal side effects of his own invention – a new form of wireless power!

2046. A new energy source, created to solve the world’s energy crisis, is believed to have deadly side effects. When The Signal’s inventor chooses to help a girl warn the public, he gains an unlikely ally to save the world from his own creation.

Music, VFX, cinematography – all in sublime harmony!

This live action short film was shot in downtown Los Angeles over a weekend. The post production and visual effects took considerably longer and were done by the writer/director Marcus Stokes and a few additional VFX artists.

Written and Directed by: Marcus Stokes
Starring: Michael Ealy, Gracie Gillam, Doc Duhame