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.
Alice Dupre directed this new promo for the Australian band Big Scary. She used stop-motion and 2D animation in the clip:
Luke Jurevicius (whose brother is Nathan, the artist behind Scary Girl) recently produced and co-wrote this new animated music video for the band The Audreys. The traditionally-animated video tells the story of a lost girl making her way through a surreal landscape. The 4-minute piece, titled Sometimes the Stars, was recently accepted into the 2011 Annecy festival in the Music Video category. Full credits below.
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The Lost Thing, which is up for Best Animated Short at this month’s 83rd Annual Academy Awards, is now online. The 15-minute short was directed by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan and it focuses on “a boy discovers a bizarre looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach.” It was produced by Passion Pictures Australia and Screen Australia.
Back in 2007, Steve Baker won Tropfest, the biggest film festival in Australia. To help promote this year’s event, which is being held on February 20th, the festival invited Baker to produce an animated trailer. It’s surely more than a sizzle reel – this is a story unto itself, titled Everyone has a story to tell…
The team at Plaza Films produced the animation for this theatrical/TV spot for SBS, the Australian broadcasting network. The ad agency US Sydney developed a dark world that knew no magic or beauty, until one soul brings back the light. The 1-minute ad was directed by Helen Clemens.
