Sydney-based animator Beini Huang took home the top prize at the 2011 Toronto Student International Film Festival (TSIFF). The award was for A Divorce, a 4-minute film about a man reflecting on the dissolution of his marriage.
Saddle up for a magical pony ride, animation fans. Here’s a new CG animated student film emerging from The Animation Workshop in Viborg. Space Stallions was directed by Thorvaldur S. Gunnarsson, Jonatan Brüsch, Ágúst Kristinsson, Arna Snæbjørnsdottir, Esben J. Jespersen, Touraj Khosravi and Polina Bokhan. You have my permission to sing along – fist pump!
A new dialog-free short, titled Cinq Point Hein, is now in distribution in France, playing in theaters for The Week of Sound. It’s directed by former Gobelins students Chloé Bury, Daniel Ferretti, Maïté Xia and Mathilde Le Moal, along with supervising director Aïda del Solar.
Did it just get cold in here? I think a window is open. Or maybe it’s this eerie ghost floating on my laptop screen. It’s the star of The Lady ParaNorma (not to be confused with the upcoming Laika feature ParaNorman), a new CG short written and directed by Vincent Marcone, a.k.a. My Pet Skeleton. Here’s a trailer:
Q-hyun Kim, an animation student at New York’s School of Visual Art has revealed a teaser for an upcoming thesis project titled Mirror. Eighteen months in the making, the project follows two cats from different worlds who swap places. The full short will arrive next month. Stay tuned!
Fraser Davidson, the maistro behind Storm, has taken on the unofficial task of introducing a Bill Maher rant to your eyes. Just in time for the final few weeks of the NFL season, Maher and Davidson help us put America’s most popular sport in perspective.
