Watch: “Blinky” – A Short Animated Film

“Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don’t worry. It’s perfectly safe.”

Written & Directed by Ruairi Robinson
Starring Max Records from Where The Wild Things Are
Cinematography by Macgregor
Music by Ólafur Arnalds courtesy of Erased Tapes
Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish film Board

Re-GIF: Yoinks!

via Imperial Bedrooms

Watch: Old School Pixels Destroy New York

Is this how the world is going to end in 2012?

Thanks to Scott Starrett for the tip.

Watch: “The External World” – A Short Animated Film by David O’Reilly

The External World is the latest short film from Irish-born, Berlin-based animator David O’Reilly.

His remarkable shorts faintly suggest children’s books — the kind drawn in that graphically bold modern style, like The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. They inhabit a freakish netherworld between elementary-school art and primal scream therapy. It suggests that jagged fragments of childlike (and childish) emotions exist forever within adults and affect, sometimes poison, their adult lives. (Salon.com – #4 on link)

We also see references to Animaniacs, Looney Toons, The Sims, Logorama, Anime, and first generation Nintendo, among a myriad of others that we may have missed on our journey through the mind of one of the most talented independent animators working today. If you see any more references, let us know.

See more of O’Reilly’s work here. We highly suggest starting with O’Reilly’s award-winning short from 2009 that details a troubled relationship between a cat and a mouse entitled “Please Say Something“.

Support O’Reilly’s work by purchasing a HD version of “The External World” here

Watch: “The Thomas Beale Cipher” – A Short Film

Synopsis:

Using pioneering animation techniques to create a look never seen on film before, this 10-minute award-winning film tells the true legend of history’s most challenging cipher. Professor White, cryptographer extraordinaire, is on the trail of the notoriously uncrackable Thomas Beale cipher—a century-old riddle hiding the location of a fortune in gold that has tormented its pursuers since inception. But White is not alone—shadowy forces are tight on his tail.

The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters’ secrets. Eight are fairly easy and require only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult and will require a genius mind to decrypt.

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