Cool Short - Scavengers

Nice work!

All Stop-Motion Animation in the Little Prince feature film

The movie is beautiful on its own right, but the stop motion sequences bring such charm that I'm really glad Stevan V made this edit. It's gorgeous!

Bone Guitar stop-motion short

Nice simple stop motion

Borrowed Time Short Film

This looks absolutely amazing.
We definitely need more of this.

SPA Studios Klaus Teaser

Well this looks absolutely brilliant!

Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux - Impressive French Short

Gwenn Germain made this impressive short based on japanese style.

Luiz Stockler Red Bull Series

Told by a friend I came across this awesome RedBull series of incredible stories being told by people and told in this little short movies directed and animated by Luiz Stockler.

I found them so simply and amazingly efficient! Also with a combination with this awesome amazing stories. It works really well.

HERE is Luiz Stockler Vimeo channel, he has more awesome videos with simple visuals like that.

And here's this couple of videos for the Red Bull 'That One Time' Series.

Sharing Animation - Music Video - Carmen (Sylvain Chomet)

Sylvain Chomet is a brilliant artist by himself. I mean, Triplettes de Belleville and L'Illusionnist have a very unique value and style.

And although I don't know the Belgian singer Stromae, I did relate a lot with what he is singing in this music.

So both things together I thought they deserved a place in my very humble sharing animation list, I still have plenty of other animations to share, old and new, classic and experimental, but today I thought it would be a good idea to just make this one skip ahead and not be forgotten.

Being so new, I don't think this needs much of an introduction.
Carmen by Sylvain Chomet.

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See you next time with another awesome short animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Sharing Animation - Blinkity Blank (Norman McLaren, 1955)

Back to the sharing and back to the classics!

The National Film Board of Canada is, until today, one place that experimental animation come to life. You have really high chances of running into one of their funded films if you go to an international animation festival like in Annecy. Great filmmakers, artists, who take animation one step forward, can grow there.

He showed us how animation is all about manipulating images, frame by frame, into a film that can be played in the correct speed and create... well, magic! I say this, because his work includes drawing animation, stop motion, pixilation, or even modifying live footage.

I shall not get too long over McLaren, mostly because it's not the first time I share one of his movies.

Blinkity Blank is a short movie that explores the Persistence of Vision with drawings engraved directly onto black film, and sounds as a combination of improvisational Jazz by composer Maurice Blackburn and his technique of also scratching directly onto film on the sound optical column.

A true classic from a true pioneer!
Blinkity Blank by Norman McLaren

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See you soon with another Must Watch Animation Short!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Cruisr / All Over Music Video - cool for all reasons!

Pretty damn awesome it is!

Sharing Animation - Music Video - Freak of the Week (Juanjo Guarnido, 2014)

It's actually pretty rare for me to share something as recent as this one short I am about to, but I have to say I was expecting this excitedly, and since it's finally here, oh boy I do love it! And also, let's be different since this is the official number 50 Must Watch Animation I've shared in this blog! And there's plenty more to come.

Juanjo Guarnido, the acclaimed artist of the comic book Blacksad and once a Walt Disney Studios animator himself, had this kickstarter going to create a music video for Freak Kitchen and now, after almost a year in production, it's here for all of us to enjoy!

HERE you have a blog dedicated to Blacksad where you can see the craft of this master draftsman.

But with no further delay, Freak of the Week, music by Freak Kitchen and animation by Juanjo Guarnido.

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See you soon with some more animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Big Hero 6 - Character Study showing the Power of having well defined characters

This is amazing! The power of acting and well defined characters all over. This would be an awesome exercise for anyone studying animation.

Amazed.

Sharing Animation - The Hat (Michèle Cournoyer, 1999)

Lately I've been thinking more than usual about adult content (meaning the whole range of material that isn't considered for children, and not just sex or violence) in animation and how unfortunate it is that animation is considered mainly a children audience medium. It's clear that a lot of animators and directors enjoy the thought of an animated film more directed to adult audiences, and you can actually see some examples of that, but you might agree that most of them are either japanese or sometimes french. But still I can't help but feeling that so many good story opportunities and good films, theoretically, are lost because of that... should we call it a stereotype? And this is a pretty well known subject inside the industry as well...

... which brings me to my sharing! I had this one saved for a long time, it's a brilliant short, but as you can see, this kind of movies are made in a quite experimental way. Do you think it might happen to be produced a mainstream, animated movie 'for adults' anytime soon?

The not so recent animation short, The Hat, by Michèle Cournoyer.

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See you soon with another cool animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Brazilian Fiat spots for safety in the streets looking awesome!

This spots are looking brilliant, and the studio has more cool stuff! Check out their Vimeo channel HERE.

Vacilão - Karina

Vacilão - Ernesto

Vacilão - Pereira

Vacilão - Armando

Sharing Animation - The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993)

Laika`s stop motion, and very expected movie The Boxtrolls will be coming out soon, and so the buzz for the stop motion animation is everywhere! Being so, I`ll share a classic one too that has been on my list for a loooong time!

They really were pioneers in this art form, pushed animation forward as a whole, made it bigger and better (and funnier) plus they kinda revolutionized stop motion! Of course I`m talking about the english gurus from Aardman Studios, of course I`m talking about the Academy Awarded short The Wrong Trousers AND of course it was directed by Nick Park.

Wallace and Gromit first appeared in 1989 in their first short A Grand Day Out, and Nick and those beloved characters already won 3 Oscars and were nominated for 1 more.

I feel, though, that Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park and Aardman don't need much of an introduction, and I really just wanted to share this wonderful wonderful stop motion short.
(I have a tiny huge crush for stop motion, even if I never really made one)

Enjoy Wallance & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers, by Nick Park.

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Will be back!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Final Year Shorts Gobelins 2014

Gobelins is always impressing! And the work of the students coming out of that school is simply amazing! The true awesomeness! It just came out the last ones for 2014 and damn are they cool!

HERE's the website for the Gobelins l'école de l'image

And here they are!

MEET MEAT by Eve Guastella, Mael Jaouen, Christine Shin, Juliaon Roels, David Martins da Silva.



MORTAL BREAKUP INFERNO by Paula Assadourian, Marlène Beaube, Débora Cruchon, Maxime Delalande, Thibaud Gayral de Luca, Batiste Perron.



UN CERTAIN REGARD by Simon Masse, Semiramis Mamata, Anne Courtin, Rayane Raji.



DUO by Janis Aussel, Aron Bothman, Elsa Boyer, Mapie Demessant, Dorian Lee, Laurent Moing, Guitty Mojabi.



FOL'AMOR by Augustin Clermont, Gilles Cortella, Clément de Ruyter, Marthe Delaporte, Mailys Garcia, Pierre Rutz, Gaspard Sumeire.



WAND S WANDER by Nadya Mira.



EDGARD Eve Ceccarelli, Maud Girard, Mathieu Gouriou, Léo Schweitzer, Raphaelle Stolz.



8.9 by Pedro Vergani.

Sharing Animation - The Thomas Beale Cipher (Andrew Allen, 2010)

Sometimes I do share animations just for the technique and not for the story, and out of those most often it's because of the animation itself. This one I like the mood of it, the way it's told more than what it's telling. But also the technique is amazing.

Being an animator, I tend to dislike rotoscopy (wikipedia for that cute word), but this one is pretty awesome. It is rotoscoped, but it nevertheless makes us feel that we're in an animated movie, and that's what I like about it so much!

The story is based on an american legend (well legend seem to make it kinda even older, but it actually go back to the 1800s) that you can read about HERE (wiki as well). I guess it stands alone without knowing about the story.

One fun thing about this film is that, being about an undeciphered code, it has codes in itself. The director hid messages in the film, which I didn't lose much time trying to find, but I can recognise it's actually very cool!
HERE you can find the official website for the awarded film.

Here is The Thomas Beale Cipher by Andrew Allen.

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This was my first share in Paris! That's why I've been so away from this, kinda busy times! Want to get back on track! See you with more soon!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Amazing little short

wow

Awesome Cartoon Network Adventure Time Commercial

I still don't know much about the show, but this is awesome! Many animators united to do this.

Sharing Animation - Balance (Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, 1989)

After a long while without sharing a short animation, I thought I could come back heavy. And heavy it shall be.

With a heavy subject and a heavy mood. The short is Balance, by the german twins brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.

For me it's interesting because most often than not I like short films that not only have a good story but also have something technical that is very well done. But in this short, the whole merit goes to the script and the idea. It's so simple that I think not many technical things could be achieved, although maybe its simplicity and enough to tell the story is the brilliant technical part.

Anyway, even though the animation isn't brilliant, the puppets aren't perfect and the very simple background isn't very appealing by it's own, this short is simply brilliant. So much is told with its simplicity, and that's brilliant.

This short won the oscar that year, and yes you must watch to know why. It was their school project! Awesome right?
The Lauenstein brothers have done some other stuff, like commercials in their own style, HERE in their website you can see some of their other work.

Enjoy! Balance by the Lauenstein brothers.

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See you soon hopefully with another great short!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.