Short Films by Gints Zilbalodis

Gints Zilbalodis is an animator / filmmaker from Latvia. He's creating amazing looking animations / short films with great atmosphere, interesting storylines and unique visuals. He made several short films already but still not many people know about his work, his videos only have a few hundred views yet they deserve a lot more:

Supermoine Holypop

Wow, so much energy in such a short animation, the sheer craziness is just soaking through the screen while you watch this little... I don't even exactly know what this is, but it's fun indeed, check it out:

Chimpnology - New Cyriak Madness

Not much to say... Cyriak went crazy again, which is awesome!

Isometric Animated Short

Here is a little animated short from Mirai Mizue. Back in the days when they first tried to introduce 3D to the games the popular solution was the isometric method. It's 3D in a way but really it isn't because it doesn't have perspective. I really enjoyed games with this style so I have soft spot for these kind of animations. Modern. Enjoy:

Aningaaq - The Gravity spin-off short film

If you've seen Gravity you probably liked it, it's one of those generally appreciated movies that the critics and the audience both liked - one of the best films of 2013. Here is a short little film where you can see what happened when Sandra Bullock got to talk to somebody from orbit in Gravity.

The short is directed by Jonas Cuarón, Alfonso's son, enjoy:

The Employment - Animated Short

This animated short by Santiago 'Bou' Grasso got more than a hundred awards on film festivals all around the world. The technique doesn't offer anything new or revolutionary, what sells it is the idea. It's sad, it's deep, it's moving. And it's true. Check it out:

Check out the director's website as well, it's a treat to surf on:

http://www.opusbou.com.ar/

Bot & Dolly - Box

This is an amazing little short which uses a lot of post-production, projection mapping, tracked camera movement and a lot creativity and style. I would go as far as to say that this is the most inventive way to use projection mapping yet, so enjoy, let yourself be amazed:

The Backwater Gospel

The Blackwater Gospel is an animated short from 2011 directed by Bo Mathorne and produced by the Animation Workshop (www.animwork.dk). It's in 3D but the characters, backgrounds are very artistic, almost watercolor looking, really cool animated short with a bizarre story. Check it out:

The world's largest stop-motion animation set

It's very short but nicely done, of course it looks like there is big money behind it, but still, must have been fun to work on. Check it out:

Amazing looking short film from a 22 years old animator

Kaleb Lechowski is 22 year old German arts student who by himself created an amazing looking animated scifi short. There are some shots which look like they belong in a 100 million + dollar movie from Hollywood - where his name is becoming more and more well known. I can only wish luck to this young kid, keep up the good work, rule Hollywood! Check it out!

R'ha 

Check out his DevinantArt page as well:
http://kaleblechowski.deviantart.com/

Contre temps - animated short

Here is a beautiful little animated short from French artists. The backgrounds and the scenery is hand painted I guess and the characters and some of the objects are in 3D, but with a cool cartoonish cell shading, so they don't stick out as much. The basic idea is really good but I think the screenplay could have been a lot better and the characters look a bit general to me, but the world and the images are really cool to look at, the atmosphere is there and it was a graduation film, so actually I really shouldn't complain. Check it out:

2 minute extract on youtube

or you can watch the full short on vimeo:

 https://vimeo.com/71695621