Three cheers for Nina Paley and her Flash-animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which took home the top feature prize at the 32nd Annecy International Animated Film Festival. As you may have spotted at CartoonBrew.com, Paley received an Annecy Cristal trophy after the jury, which included Matt Groening, voted in her favor. Bravo, Nina!
A few years back, Trevor Piecham, who resides in Boston, animated his first short film, titled Hyperactive Ingredients. Piecham, who holds a day job at Soup2Nuts, drew the initial keyframes traditionally and then executed the inbetweens in Flash. The short feels ripe for a Spike & Mike’s screening, but you’ll never guess where it ended up – Annecy. That’s right, the highly-regarded French animation festival accepted Piecham’s short, and screened it alongside Augenblick’s Golden Age in a 2007 collection titled Politically incorrect: Why Not?
NSFW – complete with buckets of spew, scat and blood.
Mike Roush’s 5-minute film was recently accepted in the Short Film category at the 2008 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl, which was produced by Shannon Prynoski and Titmouse Inc., was animated in Flash, and composited with photo-realistic environments. Allison Craig and David Vandervoot joined Roush on the animation effort, and it marks the first release from the Titmouse Shorts project. Here’s the trailer.
I saw a preview of this film last month, and it’s an exceptional short; subtle, clever and completely unique. Bravo gang, and congrats on your nomination.
Jossie Malis’ Flash-animated short Bendito Machine was selected as a finalist at the 2006 Annecy International Film Festival – what many view as the Oscars of animation.
Since this success, an numerous other awards, Malis has endeavored to turn Bendito Machine into a shorts factory. The second of 9 planned shorts recently released and below is the first 25 seconds. For the entire short, head over to Jossie’s site, where he has also offered iPod downloads and wallpapers.
The artist known as Ckoe has been featured here a few times, once in recognition of his film Sad Dog being accepted into Annecy, and a second time for inclusion in MTV’s Load. Ckoe, who once interned for Hans Hoogerbrugge, has created another Flash-animated short – this one is titled Udder and Piglet. It falls into his ‘minimation’ project which includes short animations, drawings, photos and experiments.
