Nick and Taffy are on a fun-filled mission through outer space, absorbing all the facts they can, and enjoying every minute of it! And when the esteemed Professor Mucus joins them via satellite, the learning kicks into warp speed! Join the Space Explorers on a fun and educational adventure for kids and grown ups alike!
Spaceships soar into space. Dots dance on a page. Rocks and twigs transform into expressive faces. Kids can easily create this kind of magic themselves, and all they require are a few simple tools. Divided into four short, easy-to-understand chapters, Animate Everything introduces basic concepts of animation to a young audience. Explaining visually with colourful images, siblings Lindsay and Will demonstrate how to bring everyday objects to life -- and even how to animate people! Animate Everything encourages you to "make your own magic in whatever style you want."
Follow a young archer and his general lead the Egyptian army to victory against the powerful Suppiluliuma, King of the Hittites. As he fights to save Egypt, the archer eventually becomes a hero in this animated feature.
Kokosmos is a purely visual, experimental piece inspired by space and our fascination with the unknown. A surreal fantasy, aimed to extend our perception of reality by letting us wonder over the existence of a higher being and our connection with her.
Milwaukee’s Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is the crown over Summerfest and has become one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. But it’s also a popular site for suicides. This animated documentary explores the issues of the bridge and suicide through three intimate interviews. Follow animator, Aaron Johnson, as he shares the stories of Dave, John, and Mary.
The bedroom is an empty place while the garden is full of huge and weird familiar entities. In these spaces, the astonished character begins a disturbing self-analysis.
Still unaware that her new friend is Prince Charles, Cinderella must help him uncover the evil Duke Zaral's plot to overthrow the Kingdom. In order to seize power, the Duke plans to have Charles marry his daughter. When Charles refuses, the Duke hopes to ultimately eliminate the Prince by creating a double of him. Cinderella and Charles rush to thwart the Duke's evil plans before it's too late!
This animated short film explores everyday objects (a shoe, a laptop, a chair, a fridge, an animal skull ...) using the deconstruction. The title is a wordplay that combines two verbs in spanish: to know (saber) and to see (ver). This short film was made with part of the images produced for the exhibition saVer which includes interactive installation, silk-screen printings and sculptures.
Hop on Santa's sleigh for a ride of a lifetime! This holiday season, Santa and his trusty sidekick, Lear the reindeer, tell the magical classic tale of A Christmas Carol. Join all your Christmas favorite characters -- Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghost Of Christmas Past, in this retelling of Charles Dickens' famous Christmas classic.
This beautiful short, commissioned by UCLan’s Creative Innovation Zone, is an intricate hand-drawn journey through the life of a local activist, George Dewhurst. An ordinary working man from Blackburn, George was charged with High Treason, shortly after The Peterloo Massacre in August 1819, for speaking at a gathering of workers in Burnley. Narrated by one of George's descendants, 8-year-old Monty Speed, this beautiful animated montage depicts events in George's life in the year 1819, following a quest by descendants to uncover his grave and raise awareness of his story.
Though he’s a troublemaker prone to argue with friends all the time, Jacob is inseparable from his besties Lucy and Noah. One day at a museum, while bantering with Lucy as always, Jacob gets lost and finds himself in a strange village by himself. Jacob’s journey home is accompanied by the Monkeyville Guide, who looks hardly trustworthy. Will they be able to escape Monkeyville, where only gold and pleasure are worshiped, and go back home safely?
Racing to the red light, only to find themselves wanting to go further, mankind have ripped the natural world apart and surrendered their freedom to a joyless gratification. In an attempt to help themselves they've created a system, a pattern, that despite their attempt to create an utopia have given birth to the exact opposite.
Follow two young fish who love to learn along with their beloved teacher, Alba, who always shows them the way! Their days are filled with facts and fun, and they ask tons of questions before their day is done! Lily and Kiki, they've sure got it right! Gobbling knowledge like fish food in their super fun fish class from morning 'til night!
When Dogtown residents get a little too loud for their own good, the neighbors take notice and call for help in a last-ditch effort to restore peace and quiet!
At a time when the moon could be reached by ladder, Captain Millipede, his daughter, a deaf milk miner, a beautiful accordionist, and a wannabe pole dancer make their final expedition unaware of what they had, blind to what they'd lose.