The 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short Film was given to Kunio Kato for his film La Maison en Petits Cubes.1 The following is the plot summary from Wikipedia: “As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay [...]
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La Revolution Des Crabes Animation by Arthur de Pins
The other day I had some friends over to celebrate the launch of CartoonAndAnimation.com. After we had gone through most of the posts I’ve created so far highlighting interesting cartoons and animations, one of my friends shared a French language animation with English subtitles — “La Révolution Des Crabes” by Arthur de Pins: You can [...]
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello animation directed by Anthony Lucas
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, directed by Anthony Lucas and distributed by Monster Distributors, is a series of four voyages in which the “characters are animated in the style of Wayang (Indonesian shadow puppets) best described as silhouettes.”1 Below is the first voyage, titled “Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship”. Here is the [...]
The Cathedral animation by Tomasz Bagiński
The Cathedral is an Oscar nominated (2002) animated short film by Tomasz Bagiński based on the award winning science fiction short story by Jacek Dukaj.1 English translations (from the Polish) of passages from Katedra by Dukaj are available from his website. The plot summary from Wikipedia says that the film: “…focuses on a man who [...]
Reach – an award winning animation by Luke Randall
The following short film by character animator Luke Randall is about a “…tiny robot [who] is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable. When a curious bird appears at the workshop window, the robot feels a lust to live outside of his reach that may be his [...]