Category Archives: Animation

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year: A Stop-Motion Music Video Tells the Warm and Fuzzy Story of Woodland Friends | Colossal

December 23, 2021 Animation Music Grace Ebert Illustrator Phoebe Wahl and animator Andrea Love teamed up to gift us with a delightful stop-motion short full of cozy felted sweaters, wooly swirls of steam puffing from teacups, and (too much) snow … Continue reading

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Three Generations Grow Closer Over Traditional Vietnamese Cuisine in ‘Spring Roll Dream’ | Colossal

December 5, 2024 Animation Film Food Kate Mothes All images courtesy of Sayonara Film   When a mother arrives home with her young son to find her father in the kitchen, the simple act of preparing dinner prompts her to … Continue reading

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Drago

A young boy’s dream of becoming a doctor is challenged when war forces him and his mother to flee their village and start a new life in New York City. Directed by Daniel Zvereff Music and Sound by Sami Jano … Continue reading

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What a ‘mixed reality’ experience tells us about the future of the natural world | BBC News

In the heart of The Natural History Museum in London, UK, the exhibits are coming to life. Visions of Nature takes visitors to the year 2125, to see how the natural world is adapting to climate change and human behaviour. … Continue reading

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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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