Category: 2D Animation Spotlight (Page 1 of 228)

Short Film Spotlight: Jour de vent (Windy Day)

Synopsis: In a park, the daily lives of several characters are disrupted by a powerful wind. Swept up into the air, their paths cross, carrying them toward new horizons.

Directed by:
Martin Chailloux
Ai Kim Crespin
Élise Golfouse
Chloé Lab
Hugo Taillez
Camille Truding

Original Score by Camille Riey.

Sound by Pierre-François Renouf, Martin Chailloux and Elise Golfouse.

Short Film Spotlight: Busy Bodies

Synopsis: Tiny workers run a domesticated factory under the supervision of giant hands.

This fantastically convenient at-home solution for disposable creation is absurdly inefficient and potentially an answer to the question: How do we get rubber gloves?

The timer is ticking.

Written and Directed by Kate Renshaw-Lewis.

Produced by Eric Ackerman.

Colored by Arius Ziaee.

Sound Design and Score by Kate Renshaw-Lewis.

Synth Performances by Arius Ziaee, Alex Edgeworth and Kate Renshaw-Lewis.

Sound Mix by Shane Vincent.

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Short Film Spotlight: Trumpets

Synopsis: Thambi tries to convince Akka to come see his giant, trumpet-playing friend in the jungle.

Written, directed and animated by Kabir Kukathas.

Original Score by Etia Farmiga.

Indian Percussion by Anant Shah.

Sound Design by Jeeva Adarsh and Vinyak Meda.

Sound Mix by Daniel Eaton.

Voice cast:
Ashanti Olivia Harideran as Akka
Sanjeevan Sivaraja as Thambi
Jo Kukathas as Ammamma

Short Film Spotlight: Mû

Synopsis: As an essential divine water spring has dried up, a child accompanied by an otter-like creature sets out to find a cure for the life-threatening water shortage.

Written, directed and animated by Malin Neumann.

Sound by Henning Grossmann, David Stolz and Leon Sudahl.

Music by Henric Schleiner.

Short Film Spotlight: To All The Little Things

Synopsis: From the smallest zooid to the biggest dinosaur, the forever spiraling cycle of life, evolution, and humanity leads back to one familiar and interconnected ancestor: Man.

Directed by Nik Argos.

Original Score and Sound Design by Amir Isakhunov.

Rough Animation by Elise Hisinger, Ares Chang, Madeline Shaw and Rachel W.

Additional Compositing by Jaimi Qiu and Liz Yang.

Short Film Spotlight: Double Click

Synopsis: Jenna helps her aging dad with his computer problems.

Written and Directed by Ben Knight.

Music by Etia Farmiga.

Sound Mix by Daniel Eaton.

Voice cast:
Felicia Day as Jenna
Mark Capri as Dad
Autumn Wanjon as Young Jenna

Additional Rough Animation by Celine Hung and Zechen Wang.

Coloring Assistance by Ryan Fay, Celine Hung and Aniya Washington.

Background Work by Nico Baidan, Antoine Couttolenc Camacho, Ben Knight, Kalynn Lam, Vincent Parkes, Oz Zhang and Esther Zhu.

Short Film Spotlight: Seagull Coffee

Synopsis: Two sisters, a seaside coffee shop, and one very peculiar seagull.

Written and directed by Yunqing (Sally) Pan.

Music by Etia Farmiga.

Sound by Margareth Gunawan.

Sound Mix by Daniel Eaton

Voice cast:
Maya Wechsler as Hazel
Leah Booth as Nora
Yunqing (Sally) Pan as The Seagull
Luke Lee as Bob
Felony Chen as Customer #1
Luke Lee as Customer #2
Margareth Gunawan as Customer #3

Short Film Spotlight: La Boîte Noire (The Black Box)

Synopsis: Fourteen years after the Paris Commune, the past is far from dead.

A young man from the provinces arrives with a strange new device and confronts former Communards with memories they have tried to survive.

What begins as a demonstration quickly brings back the ghosts of 1871 and the violence of the repression that followed.

Directed by Joris Clerté.

Written by Joris Clerté and Laure Godineau.

Music by Joris Clerté and Tantely Zafimehy.

Sound by Bruno Guéraçague, Claire André, Elias Boughedir, Nadège Feyrit, Bruno Guéraçague and Benjamin Cabaj.

Voiced by Quentin Dolmaire, Jacques Bonanfé, Paul Borne, François Frapier, Céline Ronté, Charles Brincard and Joris Clerté.

Short Film Spotlight: The Scent of Beetroot and the People Who Live Forever

Original German title: Vom Duft der roten Beete und den Menschen, die ewig leben

Synopsis: A scientist discovers the key to immortality: the scent of beetroot. Through its excessive use, an impenetrable magenta atmosphere soon envelops the entire planet. Immortality spreads like a virus: death is not only avoidable, but impossible.

Directed by Maren Wiese and Petra Stipetic.

Music by Thomas Höhl.

Sound Design & Mix by Christian Wittmoser.

Voice cast:
Moritz Kienemann as Tikhon Federov
Marina Kalmykova as Grandma
Oskar Fröhlich as Little Tikhon
Fabian Mankat as Butterfly
Maren Wiese as News Anchor 1
Stephan Dorn as News Anchor 2
Shoko Hara as News Anchor 3
Petra Stipetic as Perfume Voice Over
Felix Kramer as Serial Killer
Gesa Bering as Telemarketer
Stella Lennert as TV Show Host
Benedikt Grubel as Weatherman

Short Film Spotlight: L’incendie (The Wildfire)

Synopsis: Alain leaves with the village men to fight a wildfire while they wait for the firefighters to arrive.

Left alone with her son, Chantal must continue running the cheese dairy and tending to the herd.

The fire is getting dangerously close to the family farm… and there’s still no word from Alain.

Directed by Nicolas Rolland.

Written by Pierre Le Gall and Nicolas Rolland.

Original Score by Amin Goudarzi.

Sound by Stéphane Tréziny, Jean-Lionel Etcheverry and Shaun-Nicholas Gallagher.

Voiced by Cécile Becquerelle, Nassim Bouguezzi, Nicolas Dromard and Alain Aparis.

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