![]() 3.) Barko (2010)ĭirected by: Allison Craig / Duration: 7 minutes/ Tit Mouse Shortsīarko is a lonely, unloved, and abused dog who has established himself as the unwilling clown of a circus run by poodles. There’s even a great behind-the-scenes video about how this film was made that I’d highly suggest watching, which details the artistic processes and adds commentary from Ru and Max. What else is to love other than the animation? The element of suspense that makes watching a gripping experience! The comedic timing! Ru and Max’s personalities coming through their puppeted animated selves! The education of forensic science! Love, Love, Love this hilarious short and this is a good entry point for newer fans of this amazing duo as they’re still creating amazing work. ![]() It pulled off everything it set out to do. Amid Amidi from Cartoon Brew points out that the creative team use “nearly every trick in the bag to make this including stop-motion, pixilation, drawn animation on paper, After Effects, Flash and live-action puppets.” Husband-and-wife team of Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata created a animated short that is as ambitious as it is worth its weight in gold for all the awards it received. With a premise that off the bat sounds just a little morbid, Something Left, Something Taken is a fun yet daring romp of a animated short that is nothing short of impressive. “Something Left, Something Taken” is an animated dark comedy about a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.” “Everyone who enters a crime scene leaves something behind and takes something away. 4.) Something Left, Something Taken (2010)ĭirected by: Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter/ Duration: 10 minutes/ Tiny Inventions While the ending proved it a fantastic short, this feature lessened its quality for me, making want to reach for a Tylenol as I watched the buffering-like stop-start motion distract me from the overall product. ![]() It stopped me in my tracks and almost made me stop watching a few minutes in. The single flaw is the jerkiness of the camera - a sort of stop-start motion that I’m guessing was supposed to add to the dream-like quality of the film. The music works well and there is a great element of suspense that complements the film as well. There are detailed interior and exteriors shots. It masterfully tells a touching and ultimately much-layeryed story in a impressive ten-minute time frame. Uyir is a gorgeous short that features an adorable loving grandpa and his young granddaughter. This is one of the few shorts I found on Amazon Video that feature people of color AND a POC director. ![]() He must find his way back to his granddaughter but all is not what it seems!” Things take a nasty turn when masked men enter his house and take him away to an unknown place. Follow him on Twitter at on Facebook, or on Instagram.“Uyir is an emotional 3D animated short film about a loving grandfather and granddaughter. Why Man Creates: Saul Bass’ Oscar-Winning Animated Look at Creativity (1968)īased in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Watch 66 Oscar-Nominated-and-Award-Winning Animated Shorts Online, Courtesy of the National Film Board of CanadaĬarl Sagan Explains Evolution in an Eight-Minute AnimationĪlan Watts Dispenses Wit & Wisdom on the Meaning of Life in Three Animated Videos The Meaning of Life–which Time Out New York named the film one of the “thirty best animated short films ever made”–has been added to our list of Free Animations, a subset of our collection, 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries & Moreįree Animated Films: From Classic to Modern As Jenkins paraphrases it, “Were we really worth all that effort?” The Meaning of Life might seem positive by comparison, but its cosmic sweep belies Hertzfeldt’s underlying critique of all that evolution has produced. As one of the first animations to “go viral” in the Youtube era, Rejected not only made Hertzfeldt’s name but paved the way for projects at once more ambitious, more surreal, more comic, and more serious: take the 65-minute It’s Such a Beautiful Day, which follows one of his signature stickmen into prolonged neurological decline. That special brand of humor has long been familiar to the many viewers who have stumbled across Hertzfeldt’s earlier Rejected, a short composed of even shorter shorts originally commissioned - and, yes, rejected - by the Family Learning Channel.
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