[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYJjlxwBP8"][vc_column_text]If you haven’t seen the 12 minute stop motion / 3d animated short Mémorable, I suggest it is well worth your while. This is a film that deals with dementia and Altzheimer’s disease from the perspective of the afflicted person, in this case the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50-fWCXvhAY"][vc_column_text]Often i find an animated short has a great look, but a poor story. Or a great story but an unimaginative look, or sometimes a good story and a good look but its missing on sound design and music or its pacing is just...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX8GaZ3O4-Q"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]I was completely mesmerized by the look of this film. I love that the characters “have character” but so little affectation as to be completely plausible in real life. Well, nearly. I found myself so absorbed by the world I was in, that I...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/jmR0V6s3NKk"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This is one of the more famous “audio first” animation shorts, and this has quite a fascinating story behind a story as well. If you’ve ever been mildly obsessed with any figures in culture (ask anyone who knows me, they will tell you who...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/cIDv1jJhoxY"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]I cant say before I saw this short I really understood there was something particular about “Irish humor” but if this defines it, I want to watch something Irish every single day. Granny O'Grimm's is an Oscar nominated 6:00 animated short and is a very...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/6dMOk4EQybQ"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Give up Aul yer Sins was the premier short in what became an animated documentary series, featuring the real recordings made by Peig Cunningham in the 1960’s, of inner city children recounting the stories of John the Baptist, the birth of Jesus, the Crucifixion,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBAyvqWP-VI"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Let’s Pollute is a short film by Veteran Pixar and Disney animator Geefwee Boedoe that denounces human pollution and a culture of disposability. The short is presented in the style of a 1950s public service educational film and was handdrawn using lithographic pencils and paper....