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This visually inventive music video for a song by a popular Czech singer skilfully combines computer animation with real footage and plays with various scales and photographs. The music video was made in the Czech Republic, but its director belongs to a new wave of young Japanese authors specializing in synchronizing animation and music.
A journey into the human delicious.
Anifilm 2017.
Fest Anča 2017.
Mauro Cararro's Masterclass / December 6th 2016 / Old Power Station, Ljubljana (Slovenia) AnimatekaPRO is a festival platform featuring a series of talks, round-table debates, presentations and Q&As to inform about the latest in animated cinema and video games. You can find out about works in progress, new co-productions and technological innovations.
A small, plump man lives on the top floor of a skyscraper. During the day, he’s a garbage man, but in the evening, he watches Tarzan-movies and dreams of in his lush roof jungle.
There is always an alternative solution. The Gift is a dark comedy short short created in my second year at FAMU as a "blackout" format exercise.
In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. Based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić and exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.
An animated depiction of the half-waking state before we fall asleep. Various people describe how they see the state between waking and sleeping, while the visual show hypnagogic hallucinations – i.e., the vision that accompany the process of falling asleep.
Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the transformations in society, politics, and culture taking place in the background.
Those who escape war and poverty looking for a brighter future deserve to be welcomed with open arms.
Yellow is telling about freedom, looking for spontaneity and finding yourself.
Woody & Woody pretende ser un modesto homenaje al gran cineasta neoyorkino, con diálogos frenéticos impregnados de ironía e ingenio y con unos dibujos de trazos vibrantes que parecen moverse a ritmo de jazz.
Through series of letters written to his younger brother Marcus, we get inside the mind of a man (Winston), who slowly falls into his own hell, by his own means.
Going on a safari is a dream for many. For middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left behind in the wilderness.
We all have people in our lives that we’d never start a friendship with today if we met them for the first time – but that nevertheless matter immensely to us. An essay on the importance of old friends.
Two alpinists, Ola and Bole, embark on the adventure of a lifetime – a winter ascent along the dangerous Messer-Schmidt route. But before they reached the top, they were forced to abandon further ascent. Desperate and losing hope of staying alive, they surrender to thoughts of a happier scenario. The animated film “comes true” of their wishes and the good old search for a better life begins.
“Weekends” is an Academy Award nominated animated short about a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal, dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand-animated film set in 1980’s Toronto.
Walt Disney has always been mesmerizing us since childhood with unforgettable characters and movies. Animation is a tough job. This video shows how that was done, how 3D effect was created.