Korea watercolor style animation - Wanee & Junah

 
Wanee, a young animator, and Junah, a scriptwriter, are lovers leading a peaceful life together. And one day, an old friend of Wanee's pays her a visit and unearths Wanee's hidden memories of her first love, her stepbrother.

Director: Yong-gyun Kim
Writer: Yong-gyun Kim

 
Aru Tabibito no Nikki (2003) aka The Diary of Tortov Roddle
Animation by Kunio Katou.
 
His name is Tortov Roddle, and he is a traveler from Tortalia. Along with his unusually large companion of a pig (seemingly a relative of the Dalí elephants), the slender Tortov travels from place to place, always finding a new and beautiful adventure at his destination. These include islands carried by frogs, fish that live in cups of coffee and a land where a movie is projected on the back of a giant bear. It all makes for a quiet adventure of peaceful contemplation. There is no dialogue, only inserts from Tortov´s diary.

The episodes were originally produced for the internet in a solo effort by the director and only animator. There´s a total of nine episodes of which the first six constitute the original 16 min. movie:

1. The City of Light  或る旅人の日記  エピソード 1 光の都
2. Midnight Cafe   或る旅人の日記 エピソード 2 真夜中の珈琲屋
3. The Little Town's Movie Gathering  或る旅人の日記  エピソード 3 小さな街の映画会
4. Moonlight Travellers  或る旅人の日記  エピソード 4 月夜の旅人
5. The Melancholy Rain  或る旅人の日記  エピソード 5 憂鬱な雨
6. The Flower and the Lady  或る旅人の日記  エピソード 6 花と女

 
My Love (Russian: Моя любовь, Moya lyubov) is a 2006 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on A Love Story (1927) by Ivan Shmelyov.

Work on the film took place in Yaroslavl, Russia over a period of three years at the studio DAGO Co. It was funded by Russia's Channel One and Dentsu Tec in Japan.

Directed by Aleksandr Petrov
Written by Ivan Shmelyov , Aleksandr Petrov
Release date(s) August 27, 2006 (2006-08-27) (Hiroshima)
March 2, 2007 (2007-03-02) (Russia)

Running time 26 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian

The Lost Thing (2010 Oscar)

The Lost Thing is a 2000 picture book, written and illustrated by Shaun Tan.
 
Set in the near future, in dystopian Melbourne, Australia, The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who enjoys collecting bottle tops for his bottle top collection. One day, while collecting bottle tops near a beach, he discovers a strange creature, that seems to be a combination of an industrial boiler, a crab, and an octopus. This creature is referred to as "The Lost Thing" by the narrator.

The boy realizes the creature is lost and out of place. He attempts to find its owner but is not able to, due to the indifference of everyone else. As he is looking for the creature's owner, he is met by a creature who gives him a business card with a weird sign on it. After searching much of the city for the sign, the boy is able to find the sign and follows it to a utopian land for lost things, where he returns the creature,and continues on with his life - although he was unable to say whether the creature really belonged there.

This book was adapted into a 15-minute animated short film in 2010, directed by Tan and Andrew Ruhemann and narrated by Tim Minchin. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Short.[2] It was nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.


The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a 2011 American animated short film directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, and produced by Moonbot Studios in Shreveport, Louisiana. Described as an "allegory about the curative powers of story", the film centers around bibliophile Lessmore and his custodianship of a magical library of flying books. It was created using computer animation, miniatures and traditional hand-drawn techniques.

 
A story inspired by a shoe-doll displayed in Childhood Museum, Edinburgh. This short film shows a touching story about a young girl and her father in a poverty, London, 1910s, . Qian Shi's BA Animation graduation film. The Best Student Film of BAF08. MX Award at TAF2010 (Tokyo Anime Fair 2010).

Clover Way Better

 
Take a journey through the milky way with Clover. Meet all your Clover friends and discover what makes Clover Way Better ™. http://www.waybetter.co.za/

Director: Shy the Sun
Client: Clover
Agency: Jo Publics

Le Moine et le Poisson, The Monk and the Fish is an animated short film made by Michaël Dudok De Wit in 1994. It was nominated for the Oscars and the BAFTA Film Award for best short animated film.
 
The film was made using a cel animation technique, which nowadays is done with the assistance of computers. Michael used the tradition brush, Indian ink, and watercolour method. The music created by Serge Besset is based on La Follia by Corelli.

The Passenger - Chris Jones

 
A one-man project created between 1998-2006. Find out how and why at http://chrisj.com.au .

For an idea of the DVD quality, download the hi-res trailer at http://www.chrisj.com.au/thepassenger/movies/thepassenger_large_surround.wmv

The Passenger is the result of about six years spent in a bedroom with a computer.  It began in 1998 as a proposed showreel piece, but then escalated into an unstoppable monstrosity that continued to absorb my life (and savings) until 2006.  I created all sound, music and vision for the film.  Running time is 7 minutes.

The film premiered and won Best Animation at the 2006 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, ahead of 38 other selected shorts including a Disney submission and the 2007 Oscar winner.  It was subsequently selected to accompany the Oscar nominated shorts in a theatrical tour of the USA, and has screened at a number of international film festivals including the Melbourne International Animation Festival, where it was awarded Best Australian Film.

Descendants - By Goro Fujita

 

3D Core Team:
Heiko van der Scherm . . . Writer, Director, Design, Modeling
Bernhard Haux . . . . . . . . .Character TD Flower main actors
Goro Fujita . . . . . . . . . . . Supervising Animator
Felix Graf . . . . . . . . . . . . Animator
Holger Schönberger . . . . .Pipeline, Shading, Lighting, Compositing

Time Frame:
Production time (First script to final short) . . . 3 Years
Work time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Full time, 6 days a week
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.75 - 1.5 Years per core person



"Descendants" is a 14 minute animated short about the wish of attaining the unattainable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.

The two main characters are flowers (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Christy Scott Cashman) who grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another.
One is old and jaded by a mysterious history - the other one still young, vivid and curious. Destiny has brought these two together and it seems as if they would exist without possibility for change, until one day a visitor to the clearing brings something unexpected to their lives.



This short film started as a diploma project by Heiko van der Scherm and Holger Schoenberger at the Institute of Animation (part of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg).

One Man Band (2005) Pixar


One Man Band is a 2005 Pixar animated short film. The film made its world premiere at the 29th Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France, and won the Platinum Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy. It was shown with the theatrical release of Cars.

The short was written and directed by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews and produced by Osnat Shurer, head of Pixar’s Shorts group. The score for the short was written by Michael Giacchino, who also composed the scores for Pixar’s animated feature films The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Up.

United Airlines: Sea Orchestra

 
The Blackheart Gang’s Jannes Hendrikz and Ree Treweek started a commercial production company, Shy the Sun, along with producer Nina Pfeiffer.
 
Their first job, United Airlines, kick started the company in September 2007 and was completed February this year.
 
United was a unique job because they were given an open brief to do what they wished with enough time to craft it to perfection in cinema resolution. The agency BDM gave them incredible guidance to complete an amazing international campaign.
 

Credits:

Client: United Airlines
Agency: Barrie D’Rozario Murphy
Exec. Creative Directors: Stuart D’Rozario, Bob Barrie
Copywriter: Phil Calvit
Art Director: James Zucco
Agency Producers: Holly Stone / Jack Steinmann
Directors/Animation: Jannes Hendrikz and Ree Treweek (Shy the Sun)
3D Modelling & Animation: Arri Reschke & Claudio Pavan (Lung Animation)
Production Company: DUCK Studios
Exec Producer: Mark Medernach
Producer: Nina Pfeiffer
Music Arrangement: Trivers & Myers
Sound Design/ Mix: Ken Chastain, Pixel Farm

Geri's Game (1998 Oscar) Pixar

Geri's Game is a five-minute animated short film made by Pixar in 1997, written and directed by Jan Pinkava.
 
The film is set in an empty park during autumn. The title character, Geri (voiced by Bob Peterson), is an elderly man who plays a game of chess against himself, "becoming" each of the players in turn by moving to the other side of the chessboard, where he changes his personality and either puts on or takes off his glasses to show this change.

The Milky Way (1940 Oscar)

 
The Milky Way is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres in 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

The short, produced and directed by Rudolf Ising with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, explores the adventures of the "three little kittens who lost their mittens", as they explore a dreamland where space is made up entirely of dairy products (for example, the Milky Way is made of milk and the moon is made of cheese). Mars is depicted as a planet where shooting stars are made.
The short won the 1940 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, and was the first non-Disney film to do so. Other shorts nominated in 1940 included A Wild Hare by Warner Bros., introducing Bugs Bunny, and the other MGM cartoon Puss Gets the Boot, with Jasper & Jinx, the prototype for Tom and Jerry. It was added as a bonus feature in the Marx Bros. DVD release of Go West (1940).