The LumberJack is yet another fine graduation from The Animation Workshop, an art school in Denmark. The story is an examination of the effects of technology on work, nature and the way we live. The 4:30 minute traditionally-animated film was directed and designed by Laura Büchert Schjødt, who animated along with Per Klausen, Sarah-Mia T. Nielsen, Louise Bergholt Sørensen and Frederik Villumsen.
Elk Hair Caddis is a highly-entertaining, new graduate film created by Peter Smith, Alice Holme, Anders Brogaard and Magnus Moller, all students at The Animation Workshop in Denmark. The 4-minute CG-short is chock-full of energetic, rubbery gags and it also appears they’ve composited photographs of stop-motion sets into the piece. “Caddis,” if you’re wondering, is a type of bait used for fishing.
Tod Polson, who had a hand in the Oscar-nominated feature The Secret of Kells, directed this short below, along with his students at The Animation Workshop in Denmark. The Outsider was co-supervised by Adam Borklund and Caroline Jorgensen Zeuthen, who both storyboarded along with Magnus Elvstrom Myralf and Ole Christian Loken. Tina Lykke Thorn and Kirsten Bay animated.
Back in November of 2009, we passed along a preview of Laurent Boucher’s CG short Tropical Circus. Without audio, the film still made an impact, but now with final audio, thanks to Thomas Simoes and Jean-Baptiste Cornier, it’s a true stand-out. Boucher is a student at Bellecour Ecoles d’Art in Lyon, France.
Hungarian animator Bella Szederkényi’s 5-minute film, titled Osolya, introduces us to a woman who discovers a sudden change in her body that turns her world upside down. The film was produced as part of her studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, and the short just won the top prize in the Graduation Film category at this year’s Anima Festival, otherwise known as the Brussells Animation Film Festival.
Henrik Sønniksen and his classmate Benjamin Nielsen created this short below, titled Vegeterrible, while studying at The Animation Workshop in Denmark. It’s probably the most creative answer ever conceived to the question: what happens when you close the refrigerator door? It’s outstanding student work, the type you only see from Gobelins students.
Vegeterrible from Henrik Sønniksen on Vimeo.
via Cartoon Brew
At Universidad Veritas, the Costa Rican animation school, Guillermo Ramos and Adrian Espinoza directed this CG short film, titled Gringo Pinto, in 2009. It’s in Spanish, and I think I’m the only Los Angelino who doesn’t speak even a little – so I’ll have to rely on your comments to confirm my suspicions that this is a clever film. Visually, it already has my interest.
