I’ve been following the Kickstarter fundraiser for A Cautionary Tail, a new CG film from Sam Rippingale. He’s pulled together a cast that includes Academy-Award winning actress Cate Blanchett, and as you’ll see in the clip below, they’re using hand-made miniature sets in the production.
Dave Carter and his trusty co-creator Nikos Andronicos have delivered the pilot episode of an all-new, animated series for Mondo Media. Billy and the Bitch is a stop-motion animated series that follows the verbal beatings doled out by a dog upon his weary owner. You may remember Dave’s work on the series Psychotown.
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.












