Short, Sweet [Indie Animation]

Iruka

Soooo... Im an animation major. Ive been wanting to do this for a while, and See if anyone else has some interest. This threads for discussing Shorts, the festival route, and Independent studios. Short animation Is usually pretty easy to miss, but it doesn't negate its awesomeness.

For the interest of people being able too add animations they know of without following the niche of independent animation, I'll say Commercials can be included as well, since they are the right amount of time.

Heres some of my favorites to get the ball rolling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_8_k1am-RM

(NSFW, for 3D cartoony mouthgirl boobs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1Rrfc0y-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR2MUTlp23s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyVS6HOFeo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m5MQMCDOWE
(i'll try to find a better quality link somewhere.)

I will continue to dig into my knowledge of short animations and post as what I can, but Im interested in seeing what Other people know about. I'll also post some more informed comments on each a little later.

Quid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYDquzEPLsw

Pyrats came up in the short film thread. I really like the animation in it, flows just right for me.

Godfather

Charming!

Quid

Hangings always are!

Burtletoy

Fortaxreasons.com

Also, there was a steam punk-ish animation a few months ago that I found on the D&D forum. It was about two guys on an airship. They were all done in silhouettes. It had something to due with people and a sickness. It looked sweet and I think someone made the thread because it was nominated as an oscar/emmy/golden glode/some kind of US award ceremony canidate. Does anyone recall this thread/animation?

CheerfulBear

Oh Gobelins, how I love you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPyQao7d7Co&NR=1

Quid

Burtletoy wrote: »

Fortaxreasons.com

Also, there was a steam punk-ish animation a few months ago that I found on the D&D forum. It was about two guys on an airship. They were all done in silhouettes. It had something to due with people and a sickness. It looked sweet and I think someone made the thread because it was nominated as an oscar/emmy/golden glode/some kind of US award ceremony canidate. Does anyone recall this thread/animation?

Why yes I do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM

It's a great film all around, if a bit of a predictable story. The animation and characters more than make up for that though.

Loomdun

ohh iruka, your so silly wiht your animation

ikage is a majorr animation person so you could talk to her about animation to

Godfather

I'm a bit curious as to how much people know about the actual animation process!

People! Tell me everything you know!

PROX

Welcome to the club Iruka! I look forward to your efforts.

GR_Zombie

I stumbled across both of these this year
Who's Hungry?
The Cat Piano

Donkey Kong

Kiwi!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

Verr

Man, I teared up when I first saw the Kiwi! short. :?

EDIT: And yes, GO FUCKING WATCH THE CAT PIANO.

Godfather

Oh my God, The Cat Piano was fucking outstanding


Like, Jesus Christ, everyone go watch it right the hell now


You will not be disappointed.

Iruka

Quid wrote: »

Burtletoy wrote: »

Fortaxreasons.com

Also, there was a steam punk-ish animation a few months ago that I found on the D&D forum. It was about two guys on an airship. They were all done in silhouettes. It had something to due with people and a sickness. It looked sweet and I think someone made the thread because it was nominated as an oscar/emmy/golden glode/some kind of US award ceremony canidate. Does anyone recall this thread/animation?

Why yes I do!

amazing silhouette animation

It's a great film all around, if a bit of a predictable story. The animation and characters more than make up for that though.

I agree that the story is predictable. There are also some points where I wish the characters separated a bit more from the environment. The Machines in this animation are rather amazing though.

Most of the Annecy Film Festival winners are pretty amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_-2zu2o82A&feature=related

Another one that has a pretty predictable story, but there's a pretty great atmosphere. Shorts usually have the ability to make a really simple concept pretty engaging for five or 10 minutes

I'm not sure how well Mary and Max is known,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRjB8PEDkM

It won along with Coraline for full length films in Annecy this year, Beyond the stunning technical/visual achievements of Coraline in the feild of stop motion, I think the film itself was underwhelming, story wise. Adam Elliot, who also made Harvey Krumpet up there, has an amazing dark sense of humor.

Kiwi is one of my favorite student animation, the strong emotion in it really makes it stand out from some of standard stuff that comes out of RISD.

Slider

These are great. Thanks.

Local H Jay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LvIG7MDSys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNVYWJOEy9A

matt has a problem

Godfather wrote: »

I'm a bit curious as to how much people know about the actual animation process!

People! Tell me everything you know!

Well when a man and a piece of paper love each other very much...




I'm more interested in where I can find a copy of the song in "Wood". The Dead Pirates don't seem to have actually released anything but that video.

Honk

Awesome thread idea! But fucking youtube is down right now.

I have one to add when it goes back up again.

Honk

Here is a film I like very much. It's also absolutely gorgeous:

ETA

Do yourself a favor and watch this better quality non-youtube release if you can.

Godfather

Uncle Grandpa was superb


I'm not sure if Adventure Time counts as an "indie animation."

It's pretty well known.

Iruka

Godfather wrote: »

Uncle Grandpa was superb


I'm not sure if Adventure Time counts as an "indie animation."

It's pretty well known.

well, I don't really mean indie as in well known, just made by more independent studios. I'm pretty sure adventure time was made by Frederator Studios, who have funded a bunch of shorts, though they do alot of larger series (fairly odd parents, wow wow wubsy) But Oh yeah! cartoons were just shorts funded by the company, I think.

Fleck0

Lorenzo, a (never released, not quite the same as indie i guess) disney short that bounced around almost getting released with a new fantasia, was up for an oscar a few years back. Problem is it's really, really hard to find the whole short. Though one of your animation professor's probly have access to it, that's how I saw it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXBw8Hkm-_M

Iruka

matthasaproblem wrote: »

Godfather wrote: »

I'm a bit curious as to how much people know about the actual animation process!

People! Tell me everything you know!

Well when a man and a piece of paper love each other very much...




I'm more interested in where I can find a copy of the song in "Wood". The Dead Pirates don't seem to have actually released anything but that video.

http://www.dirtymelody.com/music.html

Strange, they have other songs on their last FM page, but thats only a link to Wood, I think.

Iruka

A few more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRtKDqEq8CA


Tarboy has been shared alot recently, I think its alright. I'm not so into really digital looking animation, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACHVwA1D8fE

And if you want to go into really old:
(slight NSFW for language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0kRE5OTZI

Also Best animation final ever? Best animation final ever. Pretty sure I'm going this route if my thesis doesn't pan out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc

Rust

oh hey this seems to be a great place to post this, i just found it on tvtropes

it's almost definitely an independent short, going by the style

enjoy

Iruka

Hey, that's from a kid who graduated from my school, nice to see mica kids getting some viewers on their animations.

Honk wrote: »

Here is a film I like very much. It's also absolutely gorgeous:

htp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LSCds4Yy2Y

Do yourself a favor and watch this better quality non-youtube release if you can.

I hadn't seen this one before. Nice twist on the anticipation. I'll try and think of some 3D shorts as well, maybe I can dig some links stuff from siggraph.

Slider

Nice animation. Sh*tty moral story. I hate spiders and kill them all the time.

Reric

Huge fan of this biography on Ryan Larkin. This thread makes me want to get back into doing animations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfgLBMmtVs

Page-

Two pages and no Don Hertzfeldt? :x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZzKAZODy2c&feature=related

Iruka

Poor Don Hertzfeldt. His style was so mercilessly ripped for those damn pop-tart commercials, and he hates commercialism so much. His ability to resist money is pretty damn astounding, but he seems to be doing alright without going down the typical animation route of making a style and then immediately leasing that style out to companies for advertising.

Another great animation that think is becoming more well known:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLehwjV4pc

Page-

Hertzfeldt's unwillingness to commercialize is pretty great and all. I never saw the commercials that aped him so, but I can imagine it wouldn't be hard to at least get the style down.

He does offer a DVD (at a very reasonable price), which is nice to have.

Iruka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgPvpcFlFXI&feature=related

I wish I could remember what the very first one was, but I remember that tons of people thought he had made it. According to Wiki, Hes also been offered cingular and United Airlines spots. I guess hes just going to stick to his guns and sell dvds.

I should buy one myself, I'm pretty sure I've seen it through other animation kids.

Page-

Ew.

SoaL

I like this

http://nfb.ca/film/through_my_thick_glasses_film/

Ikage

I used to animate, but don't anymore. Bittersweet nostalgia fuel. But I know of the pain and sweat it goes into it!

Anyways here I go!

http://vimeo.com/4566083

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UcVY7o1oc
You laugh so hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ5ziNOtoMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOvqeABHvQ


Or just peruse here: http://binsybaby.livejournal.com/625253.html

pyromaniac221

Late but holy christ, Cat Piano is fucking fantastic

Iruka

I'm Bumping the shit out of this thread, to post some new stuff thats popped up on the Indie animation scene.

These two are pretty popular:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eovWJnJFFbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iEgMaamFDI&feature=related

This sort of mesh of 2D and 3D is pretty top notch, even for glorified chase sequences. Totally gorgeous to look at.

Of course goblins is always the standard of student animation, Heres one from over the summer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZmMjMdrqs

Goblins tends to cut the short format waaay down, which is effective for getting very pretty 30 second animations from students, but they start getting less enjoyable for people not already into animation. This is one of the longer ones, but you can continue to click around on youtube to see some pretty as hell stuff.

Less recent, and not short, but If you arent already into animation you might not have seen the secret of kells, but its streaming on netflix now. Heres one of my favorite bits of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyeYD9ikPpY&feature=related
Secret of Kells is inspired by illuminated manuscripts, and the style is something special.

If you liked the triplets of bellville and want to watch something just sooooo so french, the illutionist is probably hitting the indie theater in your metropolitan area
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPdLrxxo4mg
If you are actually curious, cities: http://www.sonyclassics.com/theillusionist/dates.html

Lastly, If you havent seen this, you havent been on youtube, but its worth posting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qCbiCxBd2M


What Have I missed lately?

flamebroiledchicken

Oh man, the Illusionist was soooo good. I think I liked it better than The Triplets of Belleville, even. Makes me want to go to Scotland.

An-D

This isn't exactly new, but I fell upon it recently. Its a pretty sweet little animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T12bJ2mNrfo

Hexmage-PA

"The Big Girl" is a student film by Hu Weifeng in which an animated princess must avoid stopmotion obstacles and save her prince from the devil.

The Big Girl

This may look like clips from a movie or series, but as far as I know this is a stand-alone short film.

Kung Fu Love