Category Archives: Animation

Boat People

As a child in Vietnam, Thao’s mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favour. Boat People is an animated documentary that uses a striking metaphor to trace one family’s flight across the … Continue reading

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RSA ANIMATE: 21st Century Enlightenment

The RSA’s Chief Executive Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of the RSA’s strapline ’21st Century Enlightenment’. How might this idea might help us meet the challenges the world faces today, and what role can be played by organisations such as … Continue reading

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WORMWOOD – Animation Short Film 2024 – GOBELINS

Premiered on 9 Oct 2024 The day the radiation disappears, Simon rushes to the heart of the zone, taking his colleague Agathe with him, in the hope of rediscovering a lost past. ********************* Backstage and makings of: / wormwood.gobelins ********************* … Continue reading

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LE RETOUR DES VAGUES – Animated Short Film 2020

Coming back to his hometown in hopes of reconnecting with his past, a young man encounters the place completely stopped in time. Moving through the familiar streets, memories disorient him as he faces what he once left behind. De retour … Continue reading

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A Mosaic Storyline Looks to the Sky in a Poetic Stop-Motion Animation | Colossal

November 4, 2024 Animation Film Grace Ebert   Given that mosaic typically requires a cement base to secure the individual fragments, it’s unusual to find the medium in stop-motion animation, a technique requiring that components move a microscopic distance in … Continue reading

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Reference books on the retirement shelf – animated version!

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Rot: A Terrifying Facepaint Stop Motion by Erica Luke

October 31, 2012 Animation Christopher Jobson This is bar-none one of the creepiest things to ever appear on Colossal, but it’s Halloween and this clip is so well animated I couldn’t pass it up. UK artist and illustrator Erica Luke … Continue reading

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Under The Thicket | Animated Short Film

11 Oct 2024 #blender #indieanimation #3danimation A ghost goes for a walk in the woods — A project I worked on for a year, animated in Blender. — Directed, animated, and written by Caleb Worcester Music composed by Yusi Liu … Continue reading

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Sci-Fi Short Film “Robot Journey” | Part 5 – Little Mushroom

Premiered on 5 Sept 2024 #cgi #ue5 #shortsfilm Hello everyone, Part 5 of Robot Journey has been completed. Many thanks to Karol Skowronek, a very talented music artist, who created an excellent soundtrack this time. This is our second collaboration, … Continue reading

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Visualizing the Nucleus

  Physicists Rolf Ent from Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, and Richard Milner from MIT, together with animator James LaPlante from Sputnik Animation, Portland, ME, have created a 10 minute video that includes new animations of the atomic nucleus. For … Continue reading

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