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Short Changed

Short Changed

In animator Zoë Hutber’s award-winning short film, a couple feels crushed by the burden of a society where everyone is literally made of money. As the fat cat at the top of the heap continues to demand a chunk of their flesh, only time will tell if their investments will ultimately pay off.

Living the Dream

Living the Dream

With greedflation on the rise and personal incomes not keeping up, it’s not easy to make a decent living these days. Animator Ben Meinhardt’s short film Living the Dream offers a darkly comedic look at modern life for a guy who graduates from school and leaves his parents’ house only to face a harsh reality in the big city.

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SIGNS

SIGNS

(Flashing images) Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. To create his short film SIGNS, filmmaker Daniel McKee spent months collecting images of thousands of road signs from around the world, then arranged and animated them in a logical sequence. The music by Resonate complements the videos’ driving pace.

LEGO Nature Simulator Stop-Motion

LEGO Nature Simulator Stop-Motion

Tomosteen animated this delightful stop-motion LEGO short that of a tabletop nature simulator. With the push of a button, a tree grows from seed and flourishes through the seasons, a penguin plays in the snow, and a festive field of flowers provides a home to bees and butterflies.

Life Is a Particle Time Is a Wave

Life Is a Particle Time Is a Wave

Daniel Zvereff’s award-winning animated short film follows a few moments in the life of a lonely old man. As the widowed watchmaker finds himself caught in a loop of his everyday life, he eventually finds peace in the memories of his life.

Glass Flipbook Animation

Glass Flipbook Animation

Andymation is known for making wonderful flipbook animations. He usually creates drawings on paper, but for this sequence, he used a super-thin, somewhat flexible glass called Corning Willow Glass. Can he make it to the end without shattering the fragile frames?

Point Cloud Tree Animations

Point Cloud Tree Animations

Visual artist Alex Le Guillou created these glorious digital sequences of trees using dots to represent their complex, organic shapes. He used LIDAR scans of the Tasmanian forest and digitally manipulated the 3D models to create this incredible footage. Created for the documentary The Giants: The Extraordinary Story of Bob Brown and the Forest.

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Scavengers Reign (Trailer)

Scavengers Reign (Trailer)

Based on their short film Scavengers, Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner’s animated science fiction series follows a spaceship’s crew who find themselves on a beautiful yet dangerous planet never visited by humans. After their ship is damaged and crashes on the surface, they must do what it takes to survive the hostile environment. Coming to MAX 10.19.2023.

Backflip: A Funny Short Film About Machine Learning

Backflip: A Funny Short Film About Machine Learning

After a failed attempt to do a backflip in real life, animator Nikita Diakur thought it would be safer to have a digital stand-in perform the maneuver. With the help of engineer Maximilian Schneider and machine learning tech based on the paper Deep Mimic, he attempted to nudge his avatar in the right direction to achieve his gymnastic goal.

Speed Racer’s Vehicle of Violence

Speed Racer’s Vehicle of Violence

If you watched the 1960s animated series Speed Racer, you might recall that the title character is supposed to be the good guy. But after editor AdventuresofSly got their hands on the series, they chopped it up to make it look like Speed is a deranged killer who uses his race car as a deadly weapon.

Viewfinder

Viewfinder

While we all experience life differently, we also share many common experiences. Animator Nate Milton’s short film offers up “a kaleidoscope of memories to remind us that we’re all living different facets of the same experience.” We could relate to all of them except having an ear pierced with a safety pin. How about you?

Cyriak: HONK

Cyriak: HONK

Animator Cyriak’s motion collage HONK is one for the birds. Hit play on the video, and you’ll be treated to 86 seconds of snow-white geese waddling along, honking their hearts out, and literally putting their necks on the line for your entertainment.

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An Alchemist’s Confession

An Alchemist’s Confession

This animation features a monologue by a monster who was once an alchemist, expressing regrets after attaining the power he sought. Cory Williams of Daydream Studios wrote and directed the short film using Unreal Engine 5 and assets from the Unreal Marketplace. We love the design of Dary Palasky’s creature, Wasserman. (Thanks, Rob!)

Woodworking without Tools (Again)

Woodworking without Tools (Again)

After creating their Woodworking without Tools video, animator Omozoc was approached by Casio to create a similar short film for them. While the clip is ultimately a promo to celebrate 40 years of G-SHOCK watches, it’s also a wonderfully-executed example of stop-motion animation and smart product placement.

Night of the Living Dread

Night of the Living Dread

(PG-13: Animated Nudity) After a power outage awakens a woman, she has trouble getting back to sleep, and ghosts of her past start to appear around her. Ida Melum’s award-winning animated short film explores the lasting impressions that negative experiences can have on one’s psyche, and how we ultimately need to embrace them as part of us.

Amazing Animations by Annie Choi

Amazing Animations by Annie Choi

Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. Her Instagram and TikTok feature a selection of her beautifully rendered visuals, each of which features an unexpected transformation. We especially love her wearable bread loafers.

Flower Found

Flower Found

After a rat’s prized flower goes missing, his fellow woodland creatures join him on a hunt for the thief. But a case of mistaken identity leads to tragic consequences and proves the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Jorn Leeuwerink award-winning animated short film won numerous awards since its debut in 2017, but this is the first time we’ve seen it.

Wing It!: A Blender Open Movie

Wing It!: A Blender Open Movie

Blender Studio shows off more of what’s possible with their CG software with a slapstick animated short film. Combining 2D and 3D techniques, Rik Schutte’s Wing It! introduces us to a brilliant inventor (who happens to be a cat) and the dopey dog who might ruin his hard work. As a Blender Open Movie, you can download the production assets used to create the film.

The Lost Suburbs

The Lost Suburbs

Artist Felix Colgrave is known for his weird and trippy animations, populated with strange-looking creatures. The Lost Suburbs drops us into a maze of streets where a highly energetic character keeps popping up and proceeds to take us on a wild ride. It’s not really an hour long, but you can let it play as long as you’d like.

3D Boss Fight Montage

3D Boss Fight Montage

CG artist pwnisher called on 3D artists again, challenging them to create renders based on a theme and a template. The goal this time: create a short scene featuring the most epic boss battle they could dream up. This video compiles the top 100 pieces of eye candy out of 2,800 submissions, with music by Disasterpiece. We want to play all of these games now.

Buzzkill

Buzzkill

Peter Ahern’s short film Buzzkill is an animated horror-comedy that starts as a happy little story about a new couple about to enjoy their first kiss. And we emphasize the “about to” because it’s just not going to happen. You see, neither of our protagonists is what they seem, and one of them is about to meet an untimely demise.

Comparing Microscopic Things on a Human Scale

Comparing Microscopic Things on a Human Scale

When you think about something being microscopic, it all seems the same size from our perspective. But this video from RED SIDE cleverly demonstrates the vast differences in the size of things we can’t see with the naked eye, from the tiniest atom to the relatively gargantuan amoeba. Also, there are way too many viruses.

Cooking LEGO Fried Chicken + Fries

Cooking LEGO Fried Chicken + Fries

Hypno Motion makes stop-motion animation. In this short clip, they took some brick-built LEGO chicken legs, battered them up in 1×1 bricks,  and fried them in a pot. Of course, you can’t have fried chicken without a side dish, so they also cooked up some french fries. Their Hidden Patterns Inside video series is a fascinating watch, too.

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