Category: 2D Animation Spotlight (Page 1 of 224)

‘Backyard Sports’ Returns in Animated Special Starring Tiffany Haddish, Arturo Castro and Ego Nwodim

Synopsis: It’s Opening Day at Steele Stadium and team superstar Stephanie “Bubbles” Morgan is in crisis. She’s lost her lucky bubble gum!

With just 30 minutes until game time, the Backyard kids embark on a wild mission to track it down and save their season.

Based on the video game series originally created by Humongous Entertainment.

Directed by Mike Roberts.

Story by Joseph Purdy and Christopher Waters.

Written by Joseph Purdy.

Additional writing by Will McRobb and Teddy McDonald.

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Short Film Spotlight: Is All Cheese Sentient?

Synopsis: Red and Eddy are just intergalactic delivery workers… until they decide to start a revolution. When a corporate deep-state scheme threatens the multiverse, they team up with SpaceCheese and Barstool Man to fight back.

The short film blends absurd humor with themes of mental health, capitalism and resistance. It is part of the larger Bohrsville universe, a narrative world the creators have been building for over a decade.

Written by T.J. Rowe and Rich Nardo.

Directed and edited by T.J. Rowe.

Voiced by T.J. Rowe and Rich Nardo.

Music by Dingboat.

Short Film Spotlight: Autokar

Update: Autokar is currently offline, so here’s the trailer instead. This post will be updated when the short film is online again.

Synopsis: In the 1990s, 8-year-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium. Her perspective transforms the migratory reality into an initiatory experience.

Written and directed by Sylwia Szkiladz.

Animation by Gaspar Chabaud, Evelien De Roeck, Pierre Le Brun, Agathe Sollier, Anne Escot, Ronni Shalev and Dina Hendrick.

Sound by Antonin Vivet, Damien Favreau, Michal Jankowski, Maria Conterno.

Voice cast:
Natalia Wolska as Agata
Anna Seniuk as Female Sparrow
Henryk Niebudek as Grandfather
Elzbieta Gaertner as Grandmother
Marcin Pempus as Bus Driver
Lidia Sadowa as Bat
Barbara Jonak as Mouse and She-wolf
Mariusz Ostrowski Bear
Konrad Beta Father

Short Film Spotlight: The Night Boots

Synopsis: In the middle of the night, while his parents are entertaining friends, a child slips on his wellington boots and sneaks off into the woods. There, a strange solitary creature leads him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal inhabitants.

Written and directed by Pierre-Luc Granjon.

The Night Boots was made using an Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen named The Epinette, on loan from the French Centre National de la Cinématographie.

Voice cast:
Bernard Bouillon as The Little Creature
Max Granjon as Eliot
Isabel Pitman as Adult
Charlotte Granjon as Adult
Matthew Tyson as Adult
William Rooke as Adult

Short Film Spotlight: Shoes and Hooves

Intended for mature audiences.

Synopsis: A pedicurist in a small town populated by human-animal hybrids, Paula, the lonely centaur-girl, longs to have human feet.

When she meets Arnold, the handsome crocodile-man, it’s love at first sight. However, both are denying their true selves in an attempt to meet the other’s expectations, and their romantic idyll is soon shattered by conflict.

Paula is faced with a choice: love or self-acceptance?

Directed by Viktória Traub.

Written by Zsuzsanna Bak, Polett Dus and Viktória Traub.

Music by Csaba Kalotás.

Sound by Zoltán Vadon.

Voiced by Eliza Sodró, Erno Fekete, Polett Dus and Dániel Zách.

Short Film Spotlight: It Could Be Any One of Us

Synopsis: A murder-mystery that follows two lovers, Piggie and Clover, whose romantic evening goes awry when a performer is murdered on stage — and Clover is shaping up to be the prime suspect.

Written and directed by Tal Castillo.

Additional writing, color and compositing by Sarah Claymiller.

Composed by Tyler Mire.

Sound Design by Harlow Castillo.

Voice cast:
Juan Cruz III as Piggie
Max Herzfeld as Clover
Kasie Raymer as Frog Performer & Waiter
Justin McElroy as Detective “Broad Cow”

Short Film Spotlight: Leftover Pasta

Synopsis: Caleb is trapped in a video game!! Can Frankie get him out?

Written and directed by Ben Knight.

Art & Visdev help by Jess Ji, EV Knight and Kalynn Lam.

Background Lighting & Paint by Oz Zhang and Esther Zhu

Additional animation by Celine Hung.

Lyrics by EV Knight and Ben Knight.

Orchestration & Music Supervision by Etia Farmiga.

Voice cast:
EV Knight as Frankie
Ben Knight as Caleb
Chris Knight as Toni & Announcer
Julie Simon as Player VO
Fran Krause as Cow Guy

Short Film Spotlight: This Is Not an Emergency

Synopsis: Alex and Christy’s night off goes horribly wrong when Christy’s baby brother goes missing. After a long night of searching, all hope is lost… until they hear a familiar sound.

Written and directed by Sydney Agans.

Music by Lewis Tarver.

Sound by Sydney Agans, Daniel Eaton and Shane Vincent.

Voice cast:
Sydney Agans as Alex
Ofre Sparrow Vaknin as Christy
Mimi Rosen as Cody
Lewis Tarver as Stacy, Scary Gary, Hunter
Victoria Basadre as Julie
Judah Esquivel as Coyote

Short Film Spotlight: Un Petit Homme (A Tiny Man)

Synopsis: Complexed by his wife’s body, a man sneakily administers a mysterious serum supposed to make her lose weight quickly. But following a prank by his wife, it is he who swallows the beverage and starts to shrink visibly.

Written and directed by Aude David and Mikaël Gaudin.

Based on Un Petit Homme by Fiodor Sologoub.

Music by Wissam Hojeij.

Sound by Pierre Oberkampf and Fred Bielle.

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