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“A Tax on Bunny Rabbits” premiered at the 2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival. This short film is all text animation, ascii style! No bunnies were harmed in the making of this film.

Although this “asciimation” uses just text, the inventive way in which Akin manipulates the symbols to portray faces and actions means it’s full of expression and subtlety, whether it’s showing the bunny running or the robot’s perplexion.

It just goes to show, you don’t always need shiny graphics to make a captivating film—a clever idea and some imagination, plus a little text can go far.

See more of the animator work at oxen.tv and riotsquad.tv. Cheers Nathaniel [Akin]! we’ll be unashamedly stealing that idea for today!

Watch it here on Vimeo Staff Picks.

Screened at the below festivals:
2011 Ottawa International Animation Festival (premiere)
2011 Cutout Fest Queretaro Mexico
2012 Reel 2 Real Festival Youth Jury…