November 01, 2024

October 05, 2024

Justice - "Neverender"



Co-Director / Aniamtion Supervisor (CAVIAR / mimoid): Masanobu Hiraoka
Director / Motion Graphics Designer: Kota Iguchi
Director (Salut): Armand Beraud:

Creative Director (Justice): Gaspard Augé
Creative Director (Justice): Xavier De Rosnay
Creative Director: Pascal Teixeira

Art Director: Rei Ishii
Animators: Ai Sakai, Jonathan Djob-Nkondo, Ryo Kaga, Sota Fukushima: Animator
FX Animator: Rapparu, Chris Graf
Animation Painter: Shinobu Iwamoto
Background Artist: Hisako Akagi
Compositor: Sankaku
Color Grading: Arthur Paux
Additional Animation (Salut): Edern Van Hille

Production: CEKAI
Producer: Taro Mikami
Producer: Shin Ohira
Production Manager: Ai Miyabe
Director's Agent: Jimmy Kitaji
Producer (Because Music): Yasmine Elhammouti

October 04, 2024

"Untitled Goose Programme" - Proof-of-Concept



4-minute test pilot for a cancelled animated series project based on "Untitled Goose Game".
Produced in 2021 by Panic & House House, with Chromosphere animation studio.

September 14, 2024

The King & The Thief



Written & Directed by: Albert 't Hoof
Producers: Arnoud Rijken & Michiel Snijders
Production: Anikey & il Luster
Animation Studio: Anikey Studios
Art Direction by: Moldybyrd Studio - JJ Epping, Diana van Houten, Yngwie Boley
Animation Director: David Bradshaw
Animators: Garai Vorm,Lieke Wouters, David Bradshaw, Henk de Haan
Score & Sound Design: Alex Debicki
Compositing & Color Correction: Lieke Wouters, Sterre Eijk
Special Thanks to: Ansgar Massmann & Toon Boom Software
Financial Support by: The Netherlands Film Fund

August 29, 2024

'Northened' - by Una Di Gallo

A film about growing up in the twilight of industrial Hamilton, Ontario. Sam & Franklin spend an endless, muggy summer exploring their industrial neighborhood. Electrical towers dot the beach and factories loom high above them as strange, hallucinatory experiences take hold. This film was produced by Fern and the Toronto Animated Image Society, who provided the funding, space, and guidance that helped bring this film to life.

August 18, 2024

Trailer for "The Personal Issue" - The pilot episode of 'Filip' an indie animated series by Mehdi Alibeygi



Creator/Producer & Director: Mehdi Alibeygi
Scriptwriter: M Alibeygi, Moin Samadi
Music & Sound Design: Armin Bahari
Concept Design & Backgrounds: Sepehr HajiAbadi
Animation: M Alibeygi, Pedram Taghavi, Mehdi Shiri
Animatic & Compositing: Rita Rahimi
Color: Pedram Taghavi, Heliya Refaei

August 06, 2024

Watchmen Chapter 1 | The Art of Adaptation

The Island of Salamanders

Washed up on a wild island with her father, businessman at large, Juliet, 11 years old, meets an astonishing giant salamander. The animal and its fellows have been vegetating on the nearby small island surrounded by sharks. The girl and the beast become friends. However the old Pramana warned her : if the salamanders are freed, they will invade the world
Pilot for "The Island of Salamanders", a European animated feature film project, directed by Catherine Maximoff (from Catherine Manesse's graphic novel). Produced by Les Contes Modernes (France), Artichoke (Slovakia) and Fabian&Fred (Germany). The visual style is 3D animation with 2D render (Unreal Engine).

August 04, 2024

GAIA - Teaser Trailer



This is the proof of concept of "GAIA", a feature film project created by italian artists Marco Regina and Luca Pisanu. Produced by La Bottega Studio, with the help of Movimenti & DogHead Studio. They're currently looking for investors and producers.

La Bottega Studio
Marco Regina - Creator and Director/Writer
Luca Pisanu - Creator and Production Designer

Lorenzo Fresta - Head of Story/Co-Writer
Tommaso Renieri - Art Director/Concept Artist
Jorge Capote - Supervising Animnator
Young Ki Yoon - Additional Story

Movimenti/DogHead Studio
Alessio Giurintano - Head of Animation
Massimo Montigiani - Storyboard Artist
Giorgio Scorza & Davide Rosio - Producer and Studio Head
Andrea Fantechi - Technical Director
Giulia Manelli - Production Manager
Chiara Miceli - Character Design and Beat Board Artist
Simone Borselli - Character Study Clean Up
Massimo Cherubin - Composer
Carlo Odorici - Post Production

July 31, 2024

'Black Slide' by Uri Lotan

Eviah, a young and timid kid on the brink of puberty and his best friend Tsuf, Sneak into the Black slide, the most terrifying ride in Aqua Fun. There he will gain insight to prepare him for events about to unfold back home.

July 19, 2024

Lamput

Lamput is a gooey orange nutcase that escaped from a secret laboratory. Two scientists, Fat Doc and Slim Doc, are forever trying their best to catch him. But Lamput, always a master of disguise, escapes right under their noses!

July 17, 2024

Wayfinder - Grendel



Exec Producer (Five Count Productions): Joaquim Dos Santos
Consulting Producer: Benjamin Kaltenecker
Associate Producer: Nicole Rola
Production Assistant: Eli Kaltenecker
Art Director: Cynthia Halley
Character Designers: Gop Gap, Eric Huang, Jean Tang
BG Designers: Joseph Martinez, Nanqing “William” Niu, Kit Rigby, Mark Tahei
BG Designer & Painters: Howard Chen, Khang Le
BG Painters: Al Sparks, Anthony Wu
Color Artists: Alice Yang, Anji Lerena
Animation Director: Barry Kelly
Technical Director: Matt Gadbois
CG Artist: Chris Boylan
Animators: Malcolm Wope, Oleg Kositsyn, Naseer Pasha, Li Cree, Harry Farrar, Robby Cook, Chris Chapman, Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Tomas Kiyoshi, Nikolaos Finizio, Spencer Wan
Editor: Todd Raleigh
Compositors: Hlynur Magnusson, David Tang, Alex King, Marcela Mac
Head of Animation Production (Flying Bark): Debbie Steer
Producers: Grace Rein, Alexandra Justaud
Production Manager: Ashleigh Chow
Animation Supervisor: Tom Barkel, Christian Barkel
Background Supervisor: Kit Rigby
Edit Assistant: Jake Allen
Background Layout: Josh Reh, Daniel Sachs
Background Paint: Linden Li, Will Zhang
CG Generalist: Kidakorn Tang
2D Animators: Richard Chhoa, Tessa Bright, Kurt Parton, Jaidon Powell, Liem Nguyen, Rachel Toh, Billy Bright, Aly El Din Wahdan, Aline Garcia
Technical Animators: Julie Ly, Brent Skinner
2D Effects: Husain Untoro, Barberine Marzat
Ink And Paint: Digitoonz Media & Entertainment
Pipeline Lead: Halil Mehmet
Pipeline TD: Hannah Chu
Financial Controller: Emily Price
Accounts: Selina Cutting, Gretchen Galvez
Legal & Business Affairs Counsel: Coco Garner Davis
Head Of Business Affairs & Legal : Jackie Emery
Consulting Lawyer: Stephen Boyle
Technology And Operations Manager: Kareem Yassih
Head Of It: Chris Ord
Desktop Support Engineers: Gareth Moffatt, Owen Flood, Aus To
Additional Animation and Compositing: Studio MIR

July 15, 2024

"Northened" by Una Di Gallo

A film about growing up in the twilight of industrial Hamilton, Ontario. Sam & Franklin spend an endless, muggy summer exploring their industrial neighborhood. Electrical towers dot the beach and factories loom high above them as strange, hallucinatory experiences take hold.

May 26, 2024

Seth's Dominion

This short documentary, part animation and part live action, is a portrait of Canadian cartoonist Seth, best known for his Palookaville comic books. Throughout his works, Seth transforms an poignant inner life into observant and witty graphic stories. Incredibly prolific, he produces semi-autobiographical comics, award-winning commercial work, as well as what he calls his “little hobbies.” Here, director Luc Chamberland sheds light on his articulate character, mixing insightful biography with vivid animation in an artful fusion of filmmaking techniques that perfectly captures Seth’s manifold creative universe. Directed by Luc Chamberland - 2014

May 13, 2024

Windy Day (1967)



Made by John and Faith Hubley - Starring Emily and Georgia Hubley

April 28, 2024

The Old Man and the Sea (1999)



The Old Man and the Sea is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Russian, Canadian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently.

Writer/Director: Aleksandr Petrov
Animators: Aleksandr Petrov, Dmitri Petrov
Camera Operator: Thierry Fargeau
Producers: Bernard Lajoie, Tatsuo Shimamura Creative Producer: Pascal Blais Executive Producers: Pascal Blais, Jean-Yves Martel, Shizuo Ohashi Composers: Denis L. Chartrand, Normand Roger Voice actors: Gordon Pinsent (English), Kevin Delaye (English), Yoji Matsuda (Japanese), Rentarō Mikuni (Japanese) Editor: Denis Papillon

March 22, 2024

The Making of TRON (1982) Full Documentary



Produced in 2002 as part of the DVD extras of the re-mastered version of Tron, this still remains one of the best "making of" documentaries for any sci-fi movie.

February 19, 2024

48x61



A rare animated short film with Katsuhiro Otomo (age 48) and Rintaro (age 61) having a bike racing duel. Directed by Rintaro in 2004 as a "Steamboy" bonus. Character design by Katsuya Terada.

February 13, 2024

Do the Bartman



"Do the Bartman" is a song from the 1990 album The Simpsons Sing the Blues, featuring the voice cast of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was performed by The Simpsons cast member Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson), with backing vocals from American singer Michael Jackson, alongside additional vocals from Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson). Jackson also produced the song, which was written by American recording artist Bryan Loren, and Geffen Records released it as a single on November 20, 1990.

Despite receiving much radio airplay in the United States, "Do the Bartman" was never officially released as a single there. It topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The song additionally reached the top 10 in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. A music video, directed by Brad Bird, was released for the song in 1991. The video became a hit on the American network MTV, and received a nomination at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. It was also number 9 goofy great one hit wonders in an episode of the VH1 series One Hit Wonders. This music video was directed by Brad Bird, with dance choreography by Michael Chambers. Nobody from the staff of The Simpsons wanted to direct it because they were busy doing the show, but Bird finally agreed to do it after having been asked four times. He had a very short amount of time to finish the video because it was supposed to coincide with the release of The Simpsons Sing the Blues.

The entire music video was storyboarded in only two days in the United States. Bird then got on a plane to Budapest, Hungary, where the video was animated by Varga Studio. They thought the video was going to be animated as simply as the original The Simpsons shorts, shown on The Tracey Ullman Show, so when Bird told them that it was going to be done in full animation with no repeated scenes, they "went into deep shock".

The animators added the wraparound at the beginning to set Bart against the crowd and put the video in "some sort of context." "Hardest thing I’ve ever done. Full animation. To music. Banged out in a few weeks. In a foreign country. With a ton of different characters, a crew that had never drawn them before & a simultaneous world TV premiere weeks away. Oy. Varga Studios pulled it off.". - Brad Bird
There is an alternative version of the music video that removes the references to Michael Jackson's "hair strand" (by not including said hair strand in frame), people dancing to the Bartman on a cruise ship with the Statue of Liberty in the background moving side to side with the rhythm of the song and replaces it with extra frames of the Springfield "cool kids" dancing along. The alternative version also removes the lyric, "She can do it, you can do it, so can I".

A track from the same album titled "Deep, Deep Trouble", was also given the animated music video treatment.

February 05, 2024

X-Men Re-Animated



X-men Re-Animated:
Is a non-profit collaborative project, celebrating and re-animating the classic 90’s X-men cartoon intro.

The X-men were created in 1963, inspired by the civil rights movement of the time. This band of outcasts focused on the fight for equality. On Oct 31st 1992 the X-men were reborn as an animated series. These super heroes were diverse, feared and hated for being different; their struggle was one that resonated with millions of unheard voices. The X-men gave us hope and changed our perspective on being perceived as “other.” While this fight persists, we are all learning not only to speak up, but listen.

Producing this project gave me the honor of working with exceptional animators whose imagination and lives were similarly captured by X-Men TAS. Their personal expression, love and belief in this series is here and could not have been done without their contribution.

This animation falls under fair use laws and is not an official Marvel production, so please support the original work streaming on Disney+

Follow the project instagram for updates:
xmenreanimated

Musical Cover by Niall Stenson can be found below:
iTunes: https://apple.co/2ZJjHQG
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2UY4lnK
Google Play: http://bit.ly/2J7JoVe

January 30, 2024

HYPERVOLTAIC CHRONICLES



Director
Lou Victor Karnas

Executive Director
Sam Taylor

Producer
Katerina Grecova

Production Coordinator
Michaela Dede

Art Directors
Lou Victor Karnas
Sam Taylor
Juancho Crespo

Storyboards
Kevin Molina Ortiz
Lou Victor Karnas

Editor
Michaela Dede

Concept Artists
Juancho Crespo
Maxime Dupuy
Slawek Fedorczuk
Simon Masse

Character Designs
Venla Linna
Lou Victor Karnas
Alan Cortes

Weapon Designs
Lou Victor Karnas

Modelsheet Cleanup Artist
Venla Linna
Character Layout
Venla Linna

Lead Animator
Venla Linna

Animators

Pauline Champetier
Loup Bouchet
Pierre Rutz
Auszamen Searles
Juanpe Arroyo
Jacob Matthess
Jess Teare
JongHa Yoon
Simone Cirillo
Lou Victor Karnas
Clara Schildhauer

FX Animation
Andrew Le Blanc
Dmitry Sarkisov
Lou Victor Karnas

Animation Cleanup and Colour
Clara Schildhauer (Lead)
Andreia Serrano
Jessica Leslau
Jacob Matthess
Jess Teare
AMIX

Background Layout Artists
Bianca Joaquino
Anna Gong

Background Painters
Slawek Fedorczuk
Eido Hayashi
Céline Korno
Alex Vanderplank

Lead Compositor
Vincent E Sousa

Compositors
Gabrielle Locre
Zeki Doru Ondun
Marco Baratto
Marco Antonio
Colour Grade
Vincent E Sousa
Gabrielle Locre
Music & Sound Design & Mix
BXFTYS

Studio Manager
Anna Degenaar

Social Media Manager
Roxana Hooti

IT Support
Rob Riley (Gal Consultancy)

Pypeline Developer
Pype Club

January 25, 2024

Our Uniform

Our Uniform, winner of the Animayo Gran Canaria 2023 Jury Grand Prize with direct entry to the Oscar® Awards Preselection in the Best Animated Short Film category, due to Animayo being the only Spanish animation festival declared a «Qualifying Festival» by the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has been nominated for Best Animated Short at the Oscars® 2024.

See Trailer here.

This was announced by the Hollywood Academy in the early hours of this Tuesday, Spanish time, unveiling the nominees for the 2024 Oscar® Awards in various categories, a source of immense joy and pride for the Animayo Festival upon learning that their endorsement of Our Uniform has resulted in it becoming one of the 5 films nominated in its category. According to Animayo's director, Damián Perea: "To take an Animayo winning work, first to the Oscar® Shortlist, and then to have it nominated, is something that comforts and rewards, in some way, the work of the entire Festival programming team, because it not only increases the visibility and global prestige of Animayo, but also draws more attention to the event, generating interest from filmmakers, sponsors, and audiences." He also highlights "the quality and selection criteria that we have once again demonstrated, which will potentially attract more outstanding films and talents in the future. It is an important validation for us, positively influencing our international reputation."

Indeed, Animayo once again demonstrates the magic that characterizes it, namely its commitment to quality and talent in the film and animation sector. A leading festival for many years, it has stood out for excellence through its awards. Its history includes the selection of several works for the Oscar® Preselection and Shortlist, emphasizing its commitment to quality and talent in the film and animation sector, including: Late Afternoon, produced by Nuria González-Blanco and directed by Louise Bagnall, won the top award at Animayo Gran Canaria 2018 and was nominated for an Oscar®. Of Irish nationality, it is a 2D animation dealing with Alzheimer's disease in a different way. The short film Kapaemahu was on the Oscar® shortlist for 2021 after winning the Animayo 2020 Jury Grand Prize. Kapaemahu, (USA, 2020), a collaboration between Native Hawaiian educator and cultural practitioner Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu with Emmy® and GLAAD award-winning filmmakers Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, under the 2D animation direction of Oscar®-nominee Daniel Sousa. And in 2022, the Australian work An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It, directed by Lachlan Pendragon, received a “Special Mention from Animayo for Best Stop Motion” and was nominated for the 95th Oscar® Awards.

     

Originating from over 80 countries worldwide, more than 2,000 works of 2D animation, 3D animation, visual effects, experimental film, advertising pieces, animation spots, music videos, video game cinematics, and virtual reality were screened at Animayo 2023. Our Uniform, by Iranian Yegane Moghaddam, and Amarradas, by Spanish Carmen Córdoba González, were the two major winners of the Animayo 2023 Awards. All represented under the quality and prestige criteria of the 2023 International Jury Animayo in the animated short film category, consisting of director, producer, and animator Andreas Deja (jury president), Jan Bubenicek (director, animator, and writer), Denisa Grimmová (stop motion, 2D and 3D director), Albert Barba (animation director), and Laura MacMahon (Senior 3D Animator).


Our Uniform is a mixed-technique short film, 07:23 minutes long, in which, with an original script by Moghaddam, “a young Iranian woman reminisces about her school days through the wrinkles and seams of her old uniform.” Its strong social undertone is the key element of its work, immersing us in a unique and peculiar way in the use of the uniform as a means to standardize a population. The Jury was captivated not only by the theme but also by its unique technique, using fabric as a base to create a universe of color and textures. In fact, it was also recognized with the Best Mixed Technique Award.

The 5 films nominated for Best Animated Short, listed alphabetically by title, are:
Letter to a Pig - Tal Kantor, Amit R. Gicelter
Ninety-Five Senses - Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess

Our Uniform - Yegane Moghaddam
Pachyderme - Stephanie Clément, Marc Rius

War is Over! Inspired by the music of John & Oko - Dace Mullins, Brad Booker

Finally, it will be during the 96th edition of the Oscars® Awards ceremony, to be held in Los Angeles on March 10th, when we will find out if Our uniform wins the coveted award.

January 04, 2024

America

In 1950 Tel Aviv, a mother and her son receive a telegram with an invitation for a phone call from America. The prospects of the call spark hope for a better life in the mother's heart while her son is busy in his own fantasy world inspired from his life in Israel.

Letter to a Pig | Oscar Shortlisted Animation Short Film