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!

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!

Free Ride anyone? It’s a 5-minute film by Liu Gaoxiang, who recently finished his studies at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Without a single spoken word, Gaoxiang’s film takes us on a nail-bitting adventure with a young man en route to a blind date.

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Grump’s is Micha Cohen’s 5-minute graduation film from Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design. We meet a pair of older gentlemen who inhabit a retirement home, and their rivalry over a lovely lady drives the dialog-free, comedic hijinx.

Second year studetns at the Denmark-based school The Animation Workshop were recently challenged to create animated trailers inspired by classic films. Here’s 2 of my favorites:

Grossbutt or Citizen Kane (inspired by Orson Welle’s film of the same name)

Mon Oncle (inspired by Jacques Tati’s film of the same name)

Here’s a trailer for Folksongs & Ballads, a new CG short directed by Mathieu Vernerie, Pauline Defachelles and Remy Paul, students at Supinfocom in France.