Tagged Animation

https://vimeo.com/127949242 This confident and atmospheric short may not be flashy, but its ambling, observational pace and detailed soundscape piques the curiosity. With charmingly stylised visuals...

Charlie Kaufman's brilliance lies in his careful depictions of inertia and mundanity; his previous directing outing, Synecdoche, New York, piled such boredom up to its existential breaking-point with...

If Pixar films have taught us one thing, it's that everything we love will one day come to an end. We will forget our childhood toys. Our loved ones will die and leave us alone in the world. Eventually, we all...

https://vimeo.com/mdsnz/escargore Beheaded. Flambéed to death. Exposed to lethal amounts of radiation. These are just a few of the macabre fates of the stars in this short. But if you’ve overdone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAsiyqgehL8 Mondays, right? Garfield knows what I’m talking about. A timid fella takes transport, bustled along in the crowds he seeks to avoid. Unable to escape, he...

https://vimeo.com/129677228 Rew Day has a striking aesthetic, but it’s the storytelling that makes this macabre short captivating. Director Svilen Dimitrov tells the story of a very unlucky chap...

“Oh, yes, I think South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is just terrific, and the numbers in it are wonderful” - Stephen Sondheim South Park is often written off by people who have almost certainly...

https://vimeo.com/134560750 Tusk is a promising short film completed by Rory Waudby-Tolley during his first year at the Royal College of Art. The film’s central question is about outsider identity,...

Pixar's latest film Inside Out is making waves with both critics and audiences this summer. Animated films have consistently been popular at the box office for the last few years, and it's not that surprising....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8M6QGnVEo Benigni is a beguiling and paradoxical fantasy of the mundane which, despite early foreshadowing, contains plenty of shock value. Skilful animation endows...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTesYaduBA&safe=active For those of us who grew up with the amusing antics of Wallace and Gromit, Balance can feel like the eerie, ghost-like shadow that haunts the dark...

2010 saw the release of Despicable Me, and the infiltration of some small yellow creatures spouting an unintelligible but undeniably enjoyable language. Although the film focused on the adventures of...

Don Hertzfeldt is a one-of-a-kind genius. While his contemporaries balance on the cutting-edge of animation technology or push to preserve the retro charm of hand-drawn styles, he stands proudly in a niche of...

Princess Kaguya is beautiful, and that presents a problem: our protagonist has her life planned, wrapped and presented to everyone else, her restless energy and passion gradually receding into the darker...

Home is an enjoyable family movie. All the ingredients for DreamWorks magic are present: imagination, expert animation and plenty of comic charm. While perhaps not as precise as the creators may have hoped...