The Girl and the Fox

httpvh://vimeo.com/43332921 The Girl and the Fox is a hauntingly beautiful short film about a nine-year-old girl, Ilona, “who lives in the wilderness with her parents.” The film is about survival. When a mysterious fox starts killing her family’s livestock, Ilona sets out to track and kill the wicked creature. Here begins a powerful and symbolic […]

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Benigni – Short Animation

httpvh://vimeo.com/15596784 Elli Vourinen is an animation director and illustrator born in 1985 in Finland. She graduated from Animation departments in Turku Arts Academy. Her first school short animation Benigni (co-directed with Pinja Partanen and Jasmiini Ottelin) has been widely noticed in the animation industry.  Benigni is about a “lonesome xylophone player, who finds a viciously […]

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“Paperman” directed by John Kahrs

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLySbGoMX0&feature=player_embedded Paperman is black-and-white animated short film directed by John Kahrs. The short is a combination of computer animation and traditional one. It became a 2013 Oscar nominee. The plot is developed in 1940s New York City. A lonely young man meets a beautiful woman.  Soon he finds that paper airplanes are really helpful in […]

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Emily Smith – Ornithophobia

Emily Smith is an American artist obsessed with cats and based in Providence, Rhode Island.  She is a senior in illustration at Rhode Island School of Design.  Emily likes to experiments with various animation styles. This last work is animated in stunning mixture of scratchy black ink character with soft colourful watercolour backgrounds. It was […]

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