Al Dente

Posted by DeK on August 23, 2008 @ 3:18 pm | 1 Comment

Taking place in a colorful and musical universe, “Al Dente” is a short film which tells us the story of a little street girl discovering the magic and the dangers of an ogre’s kitchen.

Directed by Jean-François Barthelemy, Maël François and Carlos Felipe Leon Ortiz, students of Supinfocom.

Can you dig it?

Filed Under Animation - Pixney, Awkward Teens, Burton Universe, Comedy, Cool Graphics, Cool Like that, Cute, Sweet & even Cheesy, External Conflict, Fiction, Shorts, Trying Really Hard

My Insurgent

Posted by DeK on August 20, 2008 @ 5:35 am | Comment

Start working with the U.S Government to protect the Constitutional rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees and captured Enemy Combatants today.

Your country needs you!

Filed Under War, Web Projects/ Installments, Wilde venom

Tolya

Posted by DeK on August 19, 2008 @ 12:20 pm | Comment

On International Women’s Day, when all his fellow alien workers call their distant wives to greet them, Tolya remains speechless as he calls Natasha, his wife. He can’t pronounce anything but a whistling mumble with his toothless mouth.

Tolya is ready to give up on words, but not on his romantic message.

Directed by Rodeon Brodsky.

Watch it. (Flash Video)

thanks to The Black Adder

Filed Under Fiction, Love, Shorts, Trying Really Hard

Ticklinks: The Dark Side

Posted by DeK on August 18, 2008 @ 5:14 am | Comment

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Death Star over San Francisco: They’re here!

Attack of the Lightsaber Clone: A young wannabe Jedi stumbles across blueprints to make a real lightsaber only to find out that they don’t work. Well, not quite as expected.

The Jedi Gym: Star Wars is all about the Hero’s Journey, and so is working out, you leave home, battle your demons, and hopefully return home stronger.

Filed Under Comedy, Cool Graphics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Shorts, Stupid people

Ticklinks: The Risque Corner

Posted by DeK on August 18, 2008 @ 5:02 am | Comment

Posted from work-safer to work-unsafer.

Gotcha! – Remember back in college when girls in boxers would chase wieners through the hallways of the dorms? No? Me neither. But this commercial is kinda funny. Kinda.

Waldo: Toi sur moi – Where’s Waldo? He’s taking his chances…

Sharing – Somehow Guinness realized that artsy films a la Mr. Plow don’t work.

BONUS: The work-unsafer term reminded me of Victor Solomon’s Words (Part 1). Some cuss words are in here too, “literally”.

Filed Under Be Seduced, College Humor, Commercials, Cool Like that, Grosssss, Guys World, Ham it up, Music Video

Oktapodi

Posted by DeK on August 18, 2008 @ 4:37 am | Comment

A story of love, will and, uhm, not enough tentacles…

The work of Gobelins students Julien Bocabeille, FX Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi.

Winnder of Best Animation at Imagina Awards 2008. Best of show at Siggraph 2008.

Watch it. (Flash Video)

Making of. (Quicktime)

Official website.

Filed Under Action, Animation - Pixney, Comedy, Cool Graphics, Cool Like that, Fiction, Love, Shorts, Trying Really Hard

How Much of a Woman

Posted by DeK on August 16, 2008 @ 6:19 am | 1 Comment

Being a woman, nowadays.

A film by Liron Kroll, her final project in her Communication Arts degree at the Holon Institute of Technology.

Watch it. (Flash Video)

Watch it. (MPEG-4)

via Motionographer

Filed Under Format

How Wings are Attached to the Backs of Angels

Posted by DeK on August 16, 2008 @ 5:57 am | Comment

In this surreal exposition, an obsessive scientist strives for knowledge that seems reserved for powers higher than himself.

A short by Craig Welch produced by the National Film Board of Canada and featuring stunning black-and-white animation and a wordless story; won a Special Prize at the 2008 International Animation Festival in Japan.

Watch it. (Flash Video)

Filed Under Animation - Quay Brothers, Be Seduced, Internal Conflict, Lynchian Weirdness, Shorts, Stoned-like, Trying Really Hard

ELA in “Love at First Byte”

Posted by DeK on August 14, 2008 @ 9:49 am | Comment

E.L.A. is a young girl in love back in home planet Earth. But the power of her love is too big to be limited to solely one being. An extremely bizarre love triangle unravels an invasion of epic proportions, and E.L.A. is set on an adventure to save planet Earth from the evil claws of Havra the Merciless!

Directed by Fernando Sarmiento, J.F. Mackeprang and Federico Quiros at Peppermelon.

By the power of Greyskull, watch it! (Flash Video)

Filed Under Being a woman, Cool Graphics, External Conflict, Love, Nauseating Graphics, Science Fiction, Shorts

Eat Dog Cat Mouse

Posted by DeK on August 14, 2008 @ 2:36 am | Comment

A frantic tale of revenge and relentless eating: before Mouse finds a way to delicious cornfield, it’s eaten by Cat, with dire consequences for the food chain.

A short movie made by Kwok Fung Lam for the 2005 edition of Mesh.

Download it. (MOV)

Watch it. (MPEG-4)

Filed Under Action, Animation - Pixney, Exotic, Nature, Pukey Comedy, Revenge, Shorts, Trying Really Hard

That Go!

Posted by DeK on August 13, 2008 @ 3:03 am | Comment

That Go is Noel Paul and Stefan Moore, two fresh graduates of the DXArts, the Center for Digital Arts at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Their first music videos are two nice treats.

Watch Thunderheist – Jerk it. (MPEG-4)

Watch Sophisticated Side Ponytail. (Flash Video)

Filed Under Cool Graphics, Cool Like that, Music Video, Nauseating Graphics, Slow motion