We honor the best animated short films from the past year from a variety of categories including best 3D, Experimental, Stop-Motion, Student and Traditional Animation.
The second annual GLAS Animation Festival lights up on March 2-5, 2017 in Berkeley, CA. We feel a kindred connection to GLAS not only because festival director, Jeanette Bonds, is a contributor here at S/W, but because it is the only US festival dedicated to pulling together the most daring indie animators from around the world.
An NFB classic that uses the rare form of animation known as Pinscreen. An artist, is absorbed into his painting, leading him on surreal exploration of the mind.
A delightful and innovative adaptation of a classic riddle, a chorus of voices attempt to investigate a puzzling suicide: A man gets off a boat. He walks into a restaurant and orders albatross soup. He takes one sip... pulls out a gun, and shoots himself to death. So...why did he kill himself?
Featuring a S/W alum, Netflix's anthology of animated shorts LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS returns with a second volume of eight standalone shorts featuring giants, robotic servants and Michael B. Jordan.
"My goal is always to provide each film with a unique sound world and sonic style" - Sound Designer, Composer and Sound Artist David Kamp joins us to discuss the role sound plays in a successful short film
Year end projects have been delivered by BFA students of the CalArts Character Animation Program. The best of the best, 23 films, will screen tonight in the famous "Producer's Show", a faculty-juried showcase that is a popular event for industry to attend and see what the next generation of animation talent has to offer.
As you might have noticed, this year we dispense with what has our been our traditional year-in-review Top Ten list (examples here) in order to highlight even more quality deserving content than that stale format allows. The SotW Awards are the result, and last week, after surveying an incredible year's worth of short film picks, we presented our favorite Animation, Live-Action and New Media pieces of 2011.
