Technique
In the hot midday sun, the street in a downtown apartment block is completely quiet. A few young boys play with a ball in a shady yard. The people inside their homes are busy with their daily tasks — until something unexpected happens.
Attempting a backflip is not exactly safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. So, I let my avatar learn the trick. He practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.
Musical animation to the poem of Noémi László, focusing on the theme of bad weather from children’s point of view.
The film follows a boy who parachutes onto land, where he finds a motorbike and an injured bird. With these, he sets off to reach an initially unknown goal, pursued by a shadowy giant monster, which drains life from every living being that crosses its path.
Set in a cold nordic country in the beginning of the 19th century, the story is about the stereotypical life of an old man who is working as an awaker, whose job is to wake up people each morning. The monotony of his life is over once he gets an old shiny bell.
The silhouette is living its last moments on the cold Brussels cobblestones. Just before returning to earth, her mind wanders in a fantasy and distorted universe that mixes Burkina Faso and Belgium.
Autopollo is a hypnotic animated music video that transforms driving into an existential ritual. In a digital 3D space, body, machine, and identity gradually merge into an abstract vision of endless motion, control, and escape.
The year is 1950. Agathe is preparing to audition for the Moulin Rouge. Stressed out, she decides to overcome her fears by recalling her past.
1910, in Montmartre, a bar fight between artists takes a creative turn.
Part of an animated series in which wild animals practice sports designed for humans, resulting in funny offbeat situations.
A morale story about aggressive commercialism and the society that is willing to accept its influence. Come and see what can happen with this controversy when you decide not to follow the crowd.
Ashnikko in a monstertruck and a squad of develish beasts ride towards the sunset to battle the angelic overlord robots.
A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.
It’s 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Arcadian Fever is a short film portraying the life cycle of an alien parasite species. The film follows the parasites’ last day on the planet they occupied, their migration and the invasion of another planet. There is also a love story.
A short animated film about the weather – inspired and informed by chaos theory and Lorenz attractors, romantic landscape paintings and the minimalist polygonal look of early computer simulations.
A tiny rocket makes an impact on a big wish. Seen from a distance, the earth is the most beautiful place in space.
The ants are working together perfectly. But there is one ant who is doing everything differently.
The lecture covers animation in the context of new media and how it changes under the influence of other types of contemporary art, such as games, performance, installation. What kind of new animation tools emerged? How to use bugs and mistakes in search of innovation? How to use AI in contemporary animation?