This is a graduation project from the Fukuoka branch of the Yoyogi Animation School, and it's clear the animation's proclivity towards both proving their skill both in character acting and animating vehicles, although there is a lot more attention given to the latter. The story is styled like a Fractured Fairy Tale, with the Big Bad Wolf running up on Red Riding Hood's grandmother and taking her hostage, with the explicit goal of beating Red in a race. See, Red in this story drives around in a flashy Formula One style car that looks like it'd fly into the air if it went backwards too fast. Wolf, by contrast, has a bullet-shaped blue Maserati-looking machine that looks like it'd fly into the air if it went forward too fast. Regardless, both leads end up getting more than they bargained for. As a flagship of young talent, there really is a lot to love about what's on display here, with little character moments like these fun little smash cut gags to the grandma and her captor just sitting around.
This is the music video for the song "Latest World: Heart to Heart Connection" (最新世界心心相印) by The Chef Cooks Me. The animation has a fascinating push and pull with the digital artifacting and the way the frames are drawn over each other in rapid succession. The story in the MV is a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes, connected in peculiar ways: a plane flies overhead while the pilot's mind floods with daydreams only to make an emergency landing later, a dog sprints down a road only for the same dog to sit in a box on the street with wet eyes. The symbology in the video includes a full suite of the Red Dragon tile in mahjong, meant to symbolize the Confucian virtue of compassion, which combined with imagery like two faces smiling around the Hachiko statue and how technology preserves the lives of several motorists, brings to mind how the world around us can be used to build even more compassion in ourselves than we ever could've achieved without it.
The characters of Unreal are put into a Helldivers satire, which was a wildly successful game at the time. The video is eight minutes of overwhelming memetic detritus, full of jump cuts and blink-and-you-miss-it sight gags. The framing and the way certain time-sensitive gags are stretched and pushed to make a 10 second gag get the lead out in 5 is nothing short of impressive. The characters are all violent and beat each other simply to punctuate sentences.
Performed by GODHANDUSA, produced by Camomine and animated by Knopes Production, the music video for NO FUNNY SHIT is an animated piece of fake video game footage, borrowing from some of the classic PS2 and Xbox titles in terms of art direction and graphic design. The movement is capped at specific FPS constrictions giving the animation a sort of stop-and-go quality where the frames of animation are almost exclusively key poses. The story is straighforward, the band work to promote a show happening that night that puts them on the wrong side of a league of Satanists.
Featuring visuals by Bully Dee on Instagram, the music video to 'Burlo La Lay' by Nerve Agent is a charming miniature crime story about a skeleton crew robbing a bank vault and immediately getting into a high speed chase with the pigs followed by an absurd shootout with a SWAT team. The animation is strong at giving the central characters a lot of personality and tries valiantly to push a lot of story beats into a two-minute format.
Game Morrison directs this charming little number reminasant of the Beatles cartoon about a bunch of musician cats that get on each others nerves! The art direction uses the limits of the time period they're evoking to lend the character design and gags a straightforward linework you'd see in newspaper comics. The opening is a skit about how the cats Game, Rox, Blitz and Shank turn a leisurely drive into slapstick antics, but the second half really blossoms into something special with a music video for Game Morrison's song For the Record as performed by the Street Catz.
This is a thesis film by director Stacia Black as part of her work at the Savannah College of Art and Design. A highly affectionate alien named Bwinky falls in love with a cow and begins a doting relationship with her after wooing her with a strawberry. Bwinky is sweet on her and does everything in their power to make her happy, but shuns them away after a terrible dream where she remembers being taken from her mother as a calf and how she's condemned for slaughter. The art design is remarkable in communicating the key differences between Bwinky and between the bovines on Earth.