ITFS 2027 Opens for Entries
ITFS 2027 opens five film competitions with November and January deadlines, AI-use disclosure and clearly specified delivery files.
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On a Mission: Creating “NO ONE’S LIGHT”
No One’s Light is what happens when you start with 50 sci-fi ideas, delete 47 of them for survival reasons, and end up with a five-minute animated short that still looks like an alien planet got a proper art department. Blender handles the world building and Geometry Nodes chaos, CloudRig keeps characters bendy instead of broken, and Nuke ties it together before final grading at HFF München.
Through the Woodlands
Creatures made of tree branches and roots seem to have a firm place in the history ofVFX. Just…
Supermoine Holypop | Animago Afternoon
Fasten your seatbelts! Here come the Randale Vikings - and slaughter their way through the monastery. Their goal: the secret ingredient for sugar sherbet! Marvel at the nominee in the "Best Advertising Production" category from 2015.
Junge Helden | Animago Afternoon
The decision is crucial: How does an organ donor card work? Graduates of the University of Art and Design Halle explain it to you - with the Animago-nominated short film "Young Heroes". Ready for the organ donor card?
A Single Life | Animago Afternoon
Shellac record with time travel function: This Dutch animated short film expands your record player - with the time hopping feature. More than just Broken Record Structure?
Short films galore from The Animation Workshop
If you like animated short films with ambition, you have to inhale this stream!
Monsters, Inc. Reimagined as a 1930s Cartoon
Pixar Remix retells Monsters, Inc. as a four-minute monochrome, hand-drawn-style cartoon inspired by 1930s animation.
Sprite Fright: Blender Open Movie
Blender Studio's free ten-minute horror comedy Sprite Fright sends five visitors into a forest with murderous mushroom sprites.
Louis’ Shoes: An Autistic Perspective
The five-minute French animated short Louis' Shoes follows an autistic eight-year-old entering a new classroom.
Pixar TD Andrew Finley Releases Vertigo
Pixar technical director Andrew Finley presents Vertigo, a personal CG project centred on a sleek futuristic spacecraft.
Blender Add-on Enables Remote Character Animation
Wanderson Studio used Blender’s addRoutes add-on and TouchOSC to animate a character remotely for the short Xmas Is Cancelled.
Animatics Channel Curates Animated Short Films
Autour de Minuit’s Animatics channel presents animated shorts for adult audiences, including The Death, Dad & Son, Pixels and Logorama.
Animarkt 2020 Pitching Call
Animarkt sought stop-motion shorts in development for its 2020 pitching forum, with an application deadline of 3 August.
Dissonance
Dissonance by Till Nowak – the best short film we have seen this year! These fifteen minutes break through the usual boundaries of live action and animation.
The 2018 “Animated Short Film” Oscar Contenders
Who will be the next Oscar winner in the “Animated Short Film” category? Here are the contenders! They include some familiar names from the animago AWARD.
Minions in Competition
There is still some time until “Despicable Me 3” opens in 2017—so it is time for the new “Minions” short film included as bonus material on the “Minions” Blu-ray.
Exodus without the Bible
“Exode” was nominated for an animago AWARD in the “Best Short Film” category in 2014. Now the elaborate work featuring many CG monsters is online in full.
Two Amateur Critics Meet …
News from the Blender Institute: the animated short film “Glass Half” was, of course, once again created exclusively with free and open-source software.
Love in times of global warming
Review: In DP 03 : 2014, we found out what happens when arctic pink creatures get involved with tropical fruit - and design students from HBK Braunschweig make 3D animation.
Cartoon d’Or: Curtain Up for Emerging Talent in European Animation
Films from France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom are among the five finalists. The winner will receive financial support for their next project.
Curtain Up for PRESTO!
A vengeful rabbit and his uproarious carrot show star in PRESTO, the magical short accompanying Disney/Pixar’s latest animated hit WALL-E.
Success for the Animated Short Film “Elfi and Death”
Another animated short film created at Nuremberg’s Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences has won an award at an international film festival.
Image Gallery for the Animated Short Film “Entering Rockspring”
Sebastian Krieg, Mathias Herbster, Timo Käsinger and Alexander Schäferle created a short film in the fourth semester of Macromedia's Computer Animation programme.
SIGGRAPH 2007: The Making Of “Ark” (Best of Show Award)
The Computer Animation Festival, held annually during SIGGRAPH in San Diego, this year awarded the Best of Show Award to the makers of the Polish production “Ark”.