tagged w/ animated short film
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“Pivot” is a highly stylized, stunningly original five-minute animated short film, which was an Official Nominee for Best Short Film at the Dutch Film Festival. “Pivot” treats the viewer to a mood and atmosphere similar to film-noir, while at the same time engaging its audience with the high tension and frantic pace of a horror movie.
In its essence, “Pivot” is a cat and mouse story, about a hunter versus his prey, but it’s a short film made with such panache and vigor that it must be one of the best of its type. In the film, a photographer witnesses a murder and takes pictures of the killer, but then he’s forced to run for his life. During the chase he’s finally able to turn the tables on the murderer, and the prey becomes the hunter. But it all culminates in an unfortunate ending.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the animated short film, “Pivot.”
Please visit my website to view these high-resolution pictures, and to view this truly great animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/pivot-a-high-tension-frantic-murder-chase/“Pivot” is a highly stylized, stunningly original five-minute animated... more
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“Logorama” is an award-winning, provocative and daring animated short film from the French H5 design collective, directed by François Alaux. The film screened this year as an Official Selection at The Sundance Film Festival, and it has now won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The film takes the viewer on an entertaining, violent, profane, action-packed caper set in a world comprised entirely of well-known corporate logos and iconic mascots. How familiar are the stars of this film? Well, an evil Ronald McDonald embarks upon a shooting spree on a street overflowing with 7-Elevens, U-Haul trucks, Wal-Marts and Pizza Huts. The Michelin Men are bumbling, foul-mouthed cops on his trail, and Bob’s Big Boy picks his nose and flings it on an unsuspecting victim.
But make no mistake, “Logorama” is a cleverly executed critique of our times. Our world is fueled with the signatures of commerce and consumption, where everyday symbols are imprinted in our collective memories, nagging away on the subconscious, hand in pocket and ready to draw money from our wallets. It is within this context that H5 go far beyond a simple exercise in artistic defiance. This is the beauty of their work: they transgress the graphic codes of our everyday experience. They place them within a completely different context, which sufficiently sparks considerable food for thought.
This piece includes colorful photographs and illustrations, a video of the producer's Oscar thank-you comments and the full version of the Oscar-winning animated short film, “Logorama.”
Please visit my website to view these colorful photographs and illustrations, and to watch the video and award-winning animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/logorama-wins-the-2010-oscar-for-best-animated-short-film/“Logorama” is an award-winning, provocative and daring animated short film... more
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“My Neighborhood Has Been Overrun By Baboons” is a hilarious animated four-minute short film directed by Australian filmmakers Cameron Edser and Michael Richards, with music by The Dairy Brothers. The film had a huge premier on February 21st as part of Tropfest 2010, viewed by a massive crowd of 75,000 at the Domain in Sydney. The film won second place in the Tropfest 2010 Animated Shorts category.
“In My Neighborhood Has Been Overrun By Baboons” a poor guy wakes up one morning and is shocked to find that his home and entire neighborhood has been overrun by big baboons. What if there was nothing you could do and nowhere you could hide? Wouldn’t you go absolutely bananas? Now this little film is just about as silly as it gets, but it does make an interesting point. In some ways, at times we all might get the feeling that our neighborhood has been overrun by baboons!
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as an HD version of this very funny short film.
Please visit my website to view the pictures, and to watch this hilarious, award-winning animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/help-my-neighborhood-has-been-overrun-by-baboons/“My Neighborhood Has Been Overrun By Baboons” is a hilarious animated... more
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“405” is an animated three-minute short film produced in 2000 by Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt, who created it with almost no money, using only a digital camera and a pair of dual processor computers. Within a week of its release, “405” had 250,000 downloads, the first short film to become widely distributed on the Internet and it’s generally thought of as one of the very first viral films. The film shows an American Airlines DC-10 jet making an emergency landing onto the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles, while a Jeep tries to avoid getting crushed in the process.
The young man driving the jeep floors it, but complications arise, and he and the jet are on a collision course with the Little Old Lady from Pasadena, driving ever-so-slowly in her Lincoln. Miracles can happen, and the old woman manages to have the last word.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the groundbreaking animated short film, “405.”
Please visit my website to view the photographs, and to watch this amazingly realistic short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/a-harrowing-afternoon-on-the-four-oh-five/“405” is an animated three-minute short film produced in 2000 by Bruce... more
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“Blind Spot” is an award-winning, animated three-minute short dark comedy created by Cécile Dubois-Herry, along with a group of her fellow students at Gobelins, l’Ecole de l’Image, Paris. In the film, a clumsy robber enters a small convenience store to pull off a hold-up, while an elderly grandmother with very poor eyesight is doing her shopping. Suddenly, everything goes horribly wrong. Peripheral vision is everything in this animation, as the store’s surveillance camera doesn’t quite tell the story of what really happened in the convenience store. The technical and artistic strengths of the film’s creators all dovetail brilliantly, which makes for a tightly packed narrative that’s full of detail and comedic irony.
This piece includes a number of colorful high-resolution illustrations, as well as the wickedly humorous animated short film, “Blind Spot."
Please visit my website to view these colorful pictures, and to watch this award-winning animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/blind-spot-a-hold-up-gone-terribly-wrong/“Blind Spot” is an award-winning, animated three-minute short dark comedy... more
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“Procrastination” is a humorous animated short film by the English filmmaker Johnny Kelly, described as an investigative and exploratory hands-on, gloves-off study into the practice of putting things off. The film presents colorful illustrations of various forms of the time-old theory of “why do something today that you can put off until tomorrow?”
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the humorous animated short, “Procrastination.”
Please visit my website to view these illustrations, and to watch this very funny animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/procrastination-the-thief-of-time/“Procrastination” is a humorous animated short film by the English... more
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“Klik!” is a sexy, bodacious babosity by the Dutch filmmaker rapscallions Bobby de Groot, Sven Neve and Arjan van Meerten from Amsterdam’s House of Secrets. The trippy one-minute stereoscopic 3-D animated short film was created for the opening of the 2009 Klik animation festival in Amsterdam.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the audaciously cheeky animated short, “Klik!”
Please visit my website to view these illustrations, and to relish this joyfully bodacious animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/klik-a-sexy-googly-eyed-trippy-babosity/“Klik!” is a sexy, bodacious babosity by the Dutch filmmaker rapscallions... more
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“The Lady and The Reaper” is an acclaimed, very funny animated short film by the Spanish director Javier Recio Gracia, which was just named a 2010 Oscar Nominee for Best Animated Short Film. The film tells the tale of a sweet old widow who is living alone on her farm, waiting for the arrival of death so she can be with her beloved husband once again. One night, while asleep, the lady’s life fades out and she’s invited by the grim reaper to cross death’s door. But just when she is about to do so, the old lady wakes up inside a hospital ward and discovers that, unfortunately, she’s been saved from death’s door by an arrogant doctor. The doctor then wages what he thinks is a heroic battle against the grim reaper, attempting to recover the old lady’s life at any cost.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations from the film, as well as the award-winning animated short.
Please visit my website to view these illustrations, and to watch this acclaimed animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/the-lady-and-the-reaper-patiently-awaiting-death/“The Lady and The Reaper” is an acclaimed, very funny animated short film... more
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“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” is an acclaimed, hilarious animated short directed by Nicky Phelan, which is a 2010 Oscar Nominee for Best Animated Short Film. “Granny O’Grimm” turns the age-old traditions of bedtime stories and fairy tales topsy-turvey. Cleverly crafted as a mixture between a conventional fairy tale and a horror story, this animated short is a wickedly wonky re-telling of a tale that makes us laugh at the same time that its sense of bitterness makes us reconsider the cost of marginalizing our elderly in a world that’s obsessed with youth and beauty. It’s both amusing and terribly sad that Granny’s best attempts to be a gentle loving grandmother telling a bedtime story go so very far astray as she gets caught up in her own angry bitterness.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations and the award-winning animated short film, “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty.”
Please visit my website to view these pictures, and to watch this wonderful animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/granny-ogrimms-horrible-tale-of-sleeping-beauty/“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” is an acclaimed, hilarious... more
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The Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2010 Jury Prizes, and James Blagden’s “Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No” was awarded an Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking. Blagden created an animated short film that tells a hilarious, meandering story about the former major league pitcher Dock Ellis, which leads him to one of his greatest moments in the sport. It provides a magical narration of his infamous no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the San Diego Padres in 1970 while he was “high as a Georgia pie,” or specifically under the influence of LSD. After retiring, he later worked as a drug counselor before passing away last December.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, a video presenting Dock Ellis's first-person account of his infamous no-hitter and the award-winning animated short film.
Please visit my website to view the high-res. color illustrations, and to watch the two amazing videos:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/dock-ellis-a-heavenly-flamboyant-psychedelic-comeback/The Sundance Film Festival has announced its 2010 Jury Prizes, and James... more
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“Bric à Brac” is an engaging 4-minute animated short film by the French filmmakers Emeline Degand and Maud Bourotte, who are two students at the EESA (now École Georges Méliès). The cardboard, stop-motion animation tells the bittersweet story of two little robot-like thingees, who are made out of spare parts (as is everything around them). The rhythms and poppy facial expression changes are awesome, and the two scrap-metal automatons really seem to enjoy experimenting with the musical capabilities of their bodies. But very sadly, one ends up turning into an ecstatic Whirling Dervish, tragically getting much too carried away!
This piece includes a number of colorful, high-resolution illustrations from the film, as well as the animated tragicomedy short, “Bric à Brac.”
Please visit my website to view the colorful pictures, and to watch this wickedly engaging animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/bric-a-brac-a-tragicomedy-of-two-raggedy-scrap-iron-automatons/“Bric à Brac” is an engaging 4-minute animated short film by the... more
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“Mon Ami Charly” is a wickedly wild, award-winning animated short film by four students from the French ESMA School of Arts. In the film, a little girl gets bored being all alone and asks her mother for permission to go meet her “imaginary friend” Charly. The mother refuses but the little girl disobeys her, and things go rapidly downhill, completely loony-tunes crazy from that point on!
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the wickedly crazy animated short, “Mon Ami Charly.”
Please visit my website to view the illustrations, and to watch this weird and wacky animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/mon-ami-charly-its-your-turn-to-get-your-brains-blown-out/“Mon Ami Charly” is a wickedly wild, award-winning animated short film by... more
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“Logorama” is an award-winning, provative and daring animated short film from the French H5 design collective, directed by François Alaux. The film was screened last week as an Official Selection at The Sundance Film Festival, and it’s on the 2010 Oscar Nominee Shortlist for Best Animated Short Film.
The film takes the viewer on an entertaining, violent, profane and action-packed caper set in a world comprised entirely of well-known corporate logos and iconic mascots. How familiar are the stars of this film? Well, an evil Ronald McDonald embarks upon a murderous shooting spree on a street overflowing with 7-Elevens, U-Haul trucks, Wal-Marts and Pizza Huts. The Michelin Men are bumbling, foul-mouthed cops on his trail, and Bob’s Big Boy picks his nose and flings it on an unsuspecting victim.
But make no mistake, “Logorama” is a cleverly executed critique of our modern times. Our world is fueled by the corporate signatures of commerce and consumption, where everyday symbols are imprinted in our collective memories, nagging away on the subconscious, hand in our pockets and ready to draw money from our wallets. It is within this context that H5 go far beyond a simple exercise in artistic defiance. This is the beauty of their work: they transgress the graphic codes of our everyday experience. They place them within a completely different context, which sufficiently sparks considerable food for thought.
This piece presents a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the full-length version of the award-winning animated short film, “Logorama.”
Please visit my website to view the illustrations, and to watch the full-length version of this amazing animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/logorama-a-hard-boiled-heist-flick-with-an-earth-shattering-twist/“Logorama” is an award-winning, provative and daring animated short film... more
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“Sea Orchestra” is a fantastic one-minute animated short film, a commercial created for United Airlines by the South African collective, The Blackheart Gang. Their work is just phenomenal, one of the freshest pieces of animation to come along in a quite a while. The film is a digital marvel of the handcrafted aesthetic, with visuals that bring to life incredibly detailed and fantastic tapestries influenced by Bosch, Japanese Prints and Surrealists, via 3-D modeling and texture shading. It’s all unabashedly free-wheeling fun, and yet indescribably odd. I cannot believe this actually played on TV!
This piece presents a number of colorful illustrations from the film, as well as the marvelous one-minute animated short, “Sea Orchestra.”
Please visit my website to view the wickedly funny pictures, and to watch this amazingly humorous, wacky animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/sea-orchestra-unabashedly-fun-indescribably-odd/“Sea Orchestra” is a fantastic one-minute animated short film, a... more
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“French Roast” is a subtle, gently humorous animated short film directed by the French filmmaker Fabrice O. Joubert. The delightful film has been deservedly well received at film festivals around the world, culminating in receiving the Best of Show Prize at the annual Siggraph 2009. “French Roast” was named last week to the short-list in the Animated Short Films category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
The film is set entirely inside a small Parisian café, where a rather aloof cigar-smoking gentlemen is about to pay the check when he suddenly discovers that his wallet has disappeared. From then on, the film farcically reveals the gradual evaporation of the gentleman's unfriendly pomposity. Attempting to stall for time, he decides to order some more coffee. Very many cups of coffee later, as his bill quickly mounts up, he’s still rooted to the same spot in mortification, when a little old lady sitting next to him appears to have ample cash to donate to a wild looking vagrant. Her bag is stuffed full of banknotes and looks quite inviting, but events quickly take a turn for the worse when the police arrive.
This piece presents a number of wonderful color illustrations from the film, a slide show and the full version of this very witty, highly accomplished animated short film.
Please visit my website to view the delightful illustrations and slide show, and to watch the full version of this acclaimed, witty animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/french-roast-a-big-mysterys-brewing-in-the-fancy-parisian-cafe/“French Roast” is a subtle, gently humorous animated short film directed... more
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“The Cat Piano” is an award-winning 8-minute animated short film directed by Australian filmmakers Eddie White and Ari Gibson, featuring narration by the iconic Australian musician Nick Cave. The film is a remarkable animation, a visual marvel that’s a perfectly executed narrative, seamlessly coalescing its gothic influences into a hypnotically sinister aesthetic that is never at odds with itself. “The Cat Piano” was named last week as one of 10 films to advance in the Animated Short Films category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
The story opens in a city of musically talented singing cats, where a lonely beat poet falls for the call of a beautiful musical siren. However, a mysteriously dark and evil human soon emerges and begins kidnapping the town’s singing cats to imprison them inside of a cat piano, intent on carrying out his depraved musical plans to perform a twisted feline symphony. At that point, the poet realizes that he must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the entire city.
This piece presents a number of dramatically styled illustrations from the film, as well as the superlative, exquisitely refined animated short film, “The Cat Piano.”
Please visit my website to view the wonderful illustrations, and to watch this acclaimed animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/the-cat-piano-a-city-of-imprisoned-singing-cats/“The Cat Piano” is an award-winning 8-minute animated short film directed... more
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“A Matter of Loaf and Death” is an award-winning, delightful clay-animated short film directed by Nick Clark, a four-time Academy Award-winning English filmmaker of stop-motion animation. The film, starring the much-loved duo Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit, was named last week as one of 10 films to advance in the Animated Short Films category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. “A Matter of Loaf and Death” played on BBC Television last year and was the highest-rated program of 2008 and the highest-rated non-sporting event in the United Kingdom since 2004. In 2008, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.
“A Matter of Loaf and Death” is a suspenseful, romantic high-action murder mystery, with Wallace and and the ever-trusty Gromit starting a new bakery business, Top Bun. Gromit learns that a number of bakers in town have been mysteriously disappearing, and tries to solve the case before Wallace ends up a victim himself. The mystery involves a new love interest for Wallace, Ms. Piella Bakewell, who is a bread enthusiast and former pin-up girl for the “Bake-O-Lite” bread company, as well as, for the first time, a cute sweetheart for Gromit: Ms. Bakewell’s charming little French poodle, Fluffles. The very urgent question now is: will Gromit be able to discover the identity of the Cereal Killer before poor Wallace ends up becoming the next ghastly victim?
This piece presents a number of colorful illustrations from the film, a wonderful slide show and the full version of the acclaimed animated short film, “A Matter of Loaf and Death.”
Please visit my website to view the wonderful illustrations and a slide show, and to watch the full-version of this award-winning animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/a-matter-of-loaf-and-death-big-trouble-at-the-mill/“A Matter of Loaf and Death” is an award-winning, delightful clay-animated... more
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“A Matter of Loaf and Death” is an award-winning, delightful clay-animated short film directed by Nick Clark, a four-time Academy Award-winning English filmmaker of stop-motion animation. The film, starring the much-loved duo Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit, was named last week as one of 10 films to advance in the Animated Short Films category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. “A Matter of Loaf and Death” played on BBC Television last year and was the highest-rated program of 2008 and the highest-rated non-sporting event in the United Kingdom since 2004. In 2008, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.
“A Matter of Loaf and Death” is a suspenseful, romantic high-action murder mystery, with Wallace and and the ever-trusty Gromit starting a new bakery business, Top Bun. Gromit learns that a number of bakers in town have been mysteriously disappearing, and tries to solve the case before Wallace ends up a victim himself. The mystery involves a new love interest for Wallace, Ms. Piella Bakewell, who is a bread enthusiast and former pin-up girl for the “Bake-O-Lite” bread company, as well as, for the first time, a cute sweetheart for Gromit: Ms. Bakewell’s charming little French poodle, Fluffles. The very urgent question now is: will Gromit be able to discover the identity of the Cereal Killer before poor Wallace ends up becoming the next ghastly victim?
This piece presents a number of colorful illustrations from the film, a wonderful slide show and the full version of the acclaimed animated short film, “A Matter of Loaf and Death.”
Please visit my website to view the wonderful illustrations and slide show, and to watch the full version of this award-winning animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/a-matter-of-loaf-and-death-big-trouble-at-the-mill/“A Matter of Loaf and Death” is an award-winning, delightful clay-animated... more
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“Partly Cloudy” is a delightful animated short film by Pixar Animation Studios, which has just been named as one of 10 films to advance in the voting process for the “Animated Short Films” category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The list is international, with movies representing production companies from Australia, France, America, Canada and other countries.
In “Partly Cloudy,” the storks get their babies from way up high in the stratosphere, where cloud people sculpt babies from clouds and bring them to life. However, in this story there is a real dilemma. Gus, a lonely and insecure gray cloud, is a master at creating “dangerous” babies: crocodiles, porcupines, rams and even much worse. Gus’s beloved creations are truly works of art, but they’re more than a handful for his loyal delivery-stork partner, Peck. As Gus’s creations become more and more rambunctious, Peck’s job gets harder and harder. How on earth will Peck manage to handle both his hazardous cargo and his friend’s fiery temperament?
This piece presents a number of colorful illustrations from the film, as well as the wonderful animated short, “Partly Cloudy.”
Please visit my website to view the delightful illustrations and to watch this enchanting animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/partly-cloudy-a-lonely-cloud-creates-hazardous-babies-for-his-stork-partner/“Partly Cloudy” is a delightful animated short film by Pixar Animation... more
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"Father and Daughter” is the acclaimed Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok De Wit, which won the 2000 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In the film, a father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide landscapes are shown living through their seasons, the girl lives through hers also. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old. Yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father. At the conclusion of the film, the now elderly daughter begins to walk slowly through the overgrown, dried up riverbed, finally traveling in the afterlife to meet her father once again.
This piece includes images from the film, as well as the wonderful animation, "Father and Daughter.”"Father and Daughter” is the acclaimed Dutch animated short film, made by... more
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