Category : Animation
David Badour opens the book on The Conjurer
Mercury Filmworks recently published another round of their Mercury Shorts series. One particularly illuminating example is The Conjurer, by illustrator and visual development artist, David Badour. This mysterious animated...
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Rob Zilio on The Little Girl & The Alien and the art of world domination
In Rob Zilio’s The Little Girl & The Alien, a young girl finds an unlikely ally to help her with the challenges of her day-to-day life. The girl has a...
Read MoreMercury Filmworks on the craft and magic behind Hilda
The animated series, Hilda, directed by Andy Coyle, follows the adventures of a fearless, blue-haired girl of the same name. She travels from a wilderness, filled with elves and...
Read MoreMya Roy-Royer on her hopeful thesis film, Fleurs De Printemps
In Mya Roy-Royer’s thesis film Fleurs De Printemps (translated “Flowers Of Spring”), the embodiment of springtime, Azilys, wakes up at the end of winter and begins to spread new...
Read MoreMariana Bérard on setting the scene with Mami
Mariana Bérard is an animator creating emotional and atmospheric work with her warm and welcoming take on art direction and character design. With Mami, her thesis film, Mariana shares...
Read MoreSpencer Wan on exploring Hyper Light Breaker through 2D animation
Hyper Light Breaker is a new action rogue-lite adventure game from the creators of Hyper Light Drifter. In it, players explore the Overgrowth, a new land set in the...
Read MoreHanna Lea Wyttenbach on True Colours, answering “How have you been?”
True Colours is a striking thesis film which confronts the idea of personality, and how the self doesn’t always feel like one cohesive whole. This was a feeling that...
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Jalysa Leva on creating charming characters in Jelly, Ben & Pogo
Jelly, Ben & Pogo is an animated short series for PBS Kids that follows two friends, whose families are from The Philippines, as they grow up in America. Though...
Read MoreTry to stop thinking about Don’t Think About Her by Liza Desyatkova
In Don’t Think About Her, John spirals into despair when he can’t stop thinking about his ex-girlfriend. It begins like it does for many… He checks her Facebook profile...
Read MoreMartin Cuinet makes points with his compositing demos
For Martin Cuinet, experimenting with software and tools to solve animation problems is the most exciting part of being an animation artist. Martin applied his stills to a variety...
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