tagged w/ Animated Short
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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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“Joyeux Noël” is a delightful, humorously cheerful one-minute animated short film. It was created by the people from the Barcelonian motion graphics house United Fakes, who would like to wish all of you a very happy holiday season.
Includes colorful illustrations and the entertaining animated short, “Joyeux Noël.”
Please visit my website to view the illustrations, and to watch this wonderful animated short:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/wishing-you-a-joyeux-noel/“Joyeux Noël” is a delightful, humorously cheerful one-minute... more
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“The Forest” is a beautiful, deep and somewhat disturbing animated short film created by David Sharf. This really exceptional work presents beautiful graphics that that are stylish and unique, with the storytelling conveyed through haunting voice-overs. The film raises the very emotional question of whether our sense of inner peace is merely a utopian state unless we can find a way to escape from the iron grip of society’s rule.
The film’s story centers on a daydreaming 12-year-old girl named Antonia, whose imagination takes her far away into a magical forest where she hides from the problems of the real world. Without giving away too much, Antonia’s father takes some very drastic measures, shattering the little girl’s fantasy world and forcing her to make some very difficult choices. Antonia finds a simple but radical solution to cope with the hostile environment that entraps her. You should just watch this film to see her desperate response, it’s only six-minutes long.
Includes colorful illustrations from the film, as well as the wonderful, thought-provoking animated short, “The Forest.”
Please visit my website to view the illustrations, and to watch this beautiful animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/the-forest-a-little-girls-desperate-response-to-our-brutal-world/“The Forest” is a beautiful, deep and somewhat disturbing animated short... 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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“Lucky” is a 2-minute animated short film by Yibi Hu, who describes his main inspirational idea as an enigmatic but riveting vision of the potential warmth of humankind. “Lucky” is an illustrative and evocative portrait of captivated animals, who suffer but ultimately survive in the gap between nature and humanity.
This piece includes a number of illustrations from the film, as well as the emotionally evocative animated short, “Lucky.”
To view the illustrations and this wonderful animated short film, please visit my website:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/lucky-o-blest-are-the-survivors/“Lucky” is a 2-minute animated short film by Yibi Hu, who describes his... more
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