Wednesday 9 March 2011

The Passenger

A animation one-man project created between 1998-2006. Find out how and why at: http://www.chrisj.com.au . Note: this is a low res, high compression, monophonic version - for an idea of the DVD quality, download the hi-res trailer at http://www.chrisj.com.au/thepassenger/trailer.html

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Friday 25 February 2011

Vincent - Tim Burton

This short animation got Tim Burton started in his career more or less. It's a classic :)

Wednesday 23 February 2011

JURANNESSIC

This is one of my first introductions to the Annecy animation festival and Gobelins animation school who does opening animations for the festival by the students as their final year project. Most of them are really excellent.

Gobelins 2005 - Le building

Saturday 19 February 2011

The Saga Of Biorn by The Animation Workshop

Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop.

Story
Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior's afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he discovers that the right death isn't so easy.

Credits
A film by: Benjamin J. Kousholt, Daniel D. Christensen, Mads Lundgaard Christensen, Jesper A. Jensen, Jonas K. Doctor, Steffen Lyhne, Pernille Ørum-Nielsen, Frederik Bjerre-Poulsen, Jonas Georgakakis

The Backwater Gospel

Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop.

Story
As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails and tension builds as the God fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone to die

By: Bo Mathorne, Tue T. Sørensen, Arthur Gil Larsen, Rie C. Nymand, Mads Simonsen, Thomas H. Grønlund, Esben Jacob Sloth, Martin Holm-Grevy

The External World by David OReilly

This animation is very odo but really funny.

World premiere at the 67th Venice Film Festival
US premiere at Sundance 2011

theexternalworld.com/​info
twitter.com/​davidoreilly
davidoreilly.com

Tuesday 1 February 2011

The Pig Farmer - by Nick Cross

This is a interesting one :)

The Pig Farmer is a short animated cartoon by Nick Cross. A simple tale of a wayward soul, awash in an ocean of tragedy and regret.





Friday 28 January 2011

Cocotteminute (Film animation Les Gobelins)

A classic from a Gobelins student, probably the best animation school in the world.


Simon's Cat 'Cat Man Do'

This one is pretty old too, but still great.  Has to be included in any collection of cool animated shorts.

See more at his website: http://www.simonscat.com - The Official Simon's Cat Website

Wednesday 26 January 2011

Oktapodi 2007

This animation has been around for a little while, but it's still fantastic!


ALARM

Really great animation on all levels



I'll kick off with one of my own :)

Tom Waits - Children's Story




I did this animation as a bit of fun using computer animation and then printing it out on a laser printer and scanning it back in.