Category: 3D Animation Spotlight (Page 2 of 102)

Short Film Spotlight: Cartagene

October 18, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: Paul, 30, relives his childhood memories spent with his grandfather through a flashback.

Directed by:
Léa Berbach
Fabien Bernard
Lou Buisson
Paola Couturier
Marine La Villa
Théo Nouare
Marie Pacreau
Abla Saigh

Music by Ronan Hinschberger.

Sound by José Vicente, Guilhem Favard and Yoann Poncet.

Voice cast:
Michel Elias as André
Hylan Kaczmarek as Paul
Lorenzo Théodore as Commentator 1
Jean-Michel Castan as Commentator 2, Zizouille
José Vicente as Ami 1
François Christol as Ami 2
Fabien Bernard as The Merchant

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Short Film Spotlight: The Cloud Cape Knight

October 4, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Note: Switch the audio track to French. The English track is auto-generated.

Synopsis: In a world where Fairytales are forbidden, Nuage, a young knight, ignores his queen’s order and rescues an illustration. Forced to flee, the knight discovers the land of Fairytales and heads toward a distant tower identical to the one in the illustration.

Directed by:
Marine Gautier
Elise Hauton
Chanisse Langereau
Maé Murareci–Flaujat
Lucie Ouvrard
Fanon Rannou
Maya Van Cuyck

Music by Anne de Boysson.

Sound by Baptiste Leblanc.

Voiced by Juliette Cayatte and Juliette Degenne.

Short Film Spotlight: Boots and Bounties

September 15, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: Jeff is a cowboy who arrives in a shoeless town. But Jeff refuses to take off his boots and engages in a dangerous chase where he will have to finally give up his boots and embrace his difference to live a better life.

Directed by:
Hugo Boyer
Maëlle Degremont
Corentine Dereli
Camille Deremy
Germain Joulaud
Jules Nouvelot-Giron
Roman Perrin
Jiaqi Zhang

Music by Bastien Nectoux.

Sound by Mickael Merrheim, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.

Voiced by Antoine Perrichon, Raphaël Chazel and Jules Nouvelot-Giron.

Short Film Spotlight: Coquille

September 6, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: Bernard, a small and self-centered hermit crab, loses his shell and must now brave the many dangers of the beach.

An odd crab comes to his aid, helping him stay safe, and together they embark on adventures that bring them closer together.

Directed by:
Justine Aubert
Cassandra Bouton
Grégoire Callies
Maud Chesneau
Anna Danton
Loic Girault
Gatien Peyrude
Justine Raux

Music by Nans De Jesus.

Sound by Tristan Le Bozec, Yoann Poncet and Mickaël Merrheim.

Short Film Spotlight: Vidalia

August 27, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: In a massacred village, some of the inhabitants are abducted by strange creatures. As the only survivors, Cal and Vidalia set out to find them.

Directed by:
Camille Borg
Constance Cartaut
Diane Hamel
Tabatha Hugues
Morgane Jolivel
Emile Lachkar
Bastien L’Hourre
Enzo Regardin
Céline Soubrane

Music by Nuzroush.

Sound by Baptiste Leblanc, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.

Short Film Spotlight: Daily Tales – Part One: The Magnificent Beauty Of A Train Ride

August 9, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: Mini Greta, our protagonist, wants to travel by public transport. This seemingly simple task gets complicated once she gets confronted with her fellow travelers.

Their rudeness moves Greta to the brink of her self control. It gets so bad that she unloads her anger on a tiny bird that is looking for a seat as well. What unfolds next is a drama that can only be ended by the next stop.

Directed by Alexander Dietrich and Johannes Flick.

Short Film Spotlight: Dinner for Few

August 3, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: During dinner, “the system” feeds the few who consume all the resources while the rest survive on scraps. Inevitably, the struggle for what remains leads to catastrophic change. The offspring of this transition turns out not to be a sign of hope, but the spitting image of the parents.

Written and directed by Nassos Vakalis.

Music by Kostas Christides.

Short Film Spotlight: Kill Your Darlings

August 2, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: If there’s one thing farmer Olga loves more than her pet pigs, it’s a pork chop.

When the pigs she butchers find that they can still influence events on the farm after their deaths, a vicious circle begins.

A fable about the price of greed and short-sighted thinking.

A short film by Thirza Ingold.

Short Film Spotlight: Minus Plus Multiply

July 13, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: With containers serving as a motif and a metaphor for a safe space, the story revolves around the protagonist’s self-exploration and healing journey, examining the connection between emotion and environment.

The film attempts to construct a poetic narrative and psychological self-portraits through experimentation in 2D animation, stop-motion, and sound.

By applying pottery and clay, it reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity.

A short film by Chu-Chieh Lee.

Minus Plus Multiply screened at festivals worldwide and won numerous awards, including Best Animation at the Golden Harvest Awards, Jury’s Choice Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival and Best Short Film at the Imaginaria Animated Film Festival.

Short Film Spotlight: Ratzia

June 24, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: A clever cat and two forgetful rats decide to rob a grocery store at night. Perilous obstacles and the terrifying threat of the grocer stand between them and the delicious ham.

Directed by:
Laurie Garnier
Nicolas Gouze
David Guerin
Timothée Mano
Matéo Marie
Lara Roulot
Lorena Sautre
Corentin Vergez
Emmanuelle Zamo

Music by Luc Scholz.

Sound by Sébastien Fournier, Tristan Le Bozec, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.

Short Film Spotlight: Baggage

June 19, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: Three girlfriends check in their baggage at the airport, but one is carrying a little more than the others. As they travel along the conveyor belt to security, can she hide what’s inside?

Written and directed by Lucy Davidson.

Baggage won Best Animation at the Peninsula Film Festival (2025) and screened at SXSW and Sydney Film Festival, among others.

Short Film Spotlight: The Bleacher

June 14, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: The disappearance of her sock at a local laundromat sends a fragile Rita over the edge.

Hellbent on finding it, she searches deep and gets sucked into a washing machine, entering an otherworldly cycle from which she may never escape.

The Bleacher premiered at Sundance and screened at SXSW and Annecy, among others.

Written and directed by Adam Wilder and Nicole Daddona.

Starring Kate Micucci, Ben Sinclair and Sky Elobar.

Animated by Barney Abrahams.
Edited by Adam Wilder and Barney Abrahams

Original score by Josh Ascalon.
Sound design by Josh Ascalon and Sacha Ratcliff.

Short Film Spotlight: Beyond the Dust

June 13, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: A robot vacuum cleaner tries to escape his luxury building.

Directed by:
Alexia Ameline
Marin Benitez
Lucien-Paul Bigey
Marine Dupuy
Benjamin Hack
Matteo Michel
Salomé Quillien
Juliette Vignollet

Music by Grégory Allison.

Sound by Sébastien Fournier, Tristant Le Bozec, Yoann Poncet and José Vicente.

Short Film Spotlight: Death was at the Rendez-Vous

June 10, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: While trying to save a lost dog, a clumsy detective finds himself in the middle of in an assassination attempt. Will he manage to stop this murder?

Directed by:
Yeshrita Gokool
Margot Perez
Antoine Lefebvre
Edgard Trouvay
Viktoriia Shtykova
Vanille Meslin
Natacha Bergez
Manon Aguettaz

Music by Benoit Aloïs.

Sound by Mickaël Merrheim, Théo Boin, Tristan Le Bozec, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.

Voiced by Emmanuelle Fauchet, Colin Hill and José Vicente.

Short Film Spotlight: Amok

May 25, 2025 / The Animation Blog / 0 Comments

Synopsis: Haunted by his obsessive need for vengeance, a hunter goes deep into the harsh tropical jungle to kill a black panther at all costs.

Directed by:
Océane Banon
Matthieu Barbaza
Léo Ceccaldi
Luce Douillon
Adrien Dussaud
Océane Faure
Jade Hoffstetter
Apolline Koehrer
Adrien Wolfert

Music by Dorian Lehmann.

Sound by Guilhem Favard, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.