De Monsters, a series of entertaining animated films, are broadcast 3 times a week on the "Man Bijt Hond" show on Belgium’s national TV channel.
The films feature 2D monsters interacting innocuously with live-action human beings and environments. But some of the shorts are just plain creepy, and would probably give more than a few nightmares to young children.
You can watch two shorts after the jump.
Animator and cartoonist Levni Yilmaz creates “animated” short films using a rather innovative technique and medium. Yilmaz draws on translucent paper stuck on glass, and captures the process on film…
This Is Where We Live, an imaginatively animated short film, was created by Apt Studio to commemorate 4th Estate Publishing's 25th anniversary. Twenty animators labored for 3 weeks to produce…
Puppet, an animated film created by Patrick Smith, has the right blend of humor and intellectual depth. The story of the film tells of a young man who creates an…
Dans la tête (In the Head) is a short animated film created by the students of the ESMA School of Arts in France.
The story of the film tells of one Betrand Antoine, a rather simple-minded young man, who leaves his girlfriend to enlist in the army. Sadly, Betrand dies in action on the battlefield, but manages to land outside the pearly gates of heaven. Unfortunately, he is denied entry into heaven, as he is yet to complete a certain task. Betrand is sent back to Earth to finish the task (and then die), but things do not go exactly as planned.
You will have to watch the video to find out more.
Note: The video has quite a bit of violence and gore, so be warned.
World War, a short animated film by Vincent Chai, was the winner of the ‘Best Animation Award’ at the 21st Malaysian Film Festival, and one of the runners-up in the ‘Global HD Animation Contest’ on Mytoons.
Amazingly, Vincent created this film for his final degree project at the University Of Hertfordshire.
The Pet Store was a Disney animated short released in 1933 by United Artists Pictures. The film is notable for being the third and last animated cartoon to feature Beppo…
1000 Bills is an incredible piece of animation by Alex Itin, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. The imagery in the animation is both manic as well as fantastic…
Pendulum Press released this film strip presentation of Star Wars ( Episode IV : A New Hope) in 1978. Unfortunately, the tepid and dreary narration is total put off, but…
Ark is a poignant, multi-award-winning short film directed by Grzegorz Jonkajtys.
Synopsis of the story:
An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man…