The tile jale toilet: tentando ir ao baño...

Unha rapaciña ten que ir ao baño...

Magnífica recreación do portugués Joao Rodrigues, na categoría Retrospectiva. A boa utilización da mistura de técnicas empregadas (flash, 2D e stop-motion) dota a obra dun carácter orixinal, único e auténtico.

Unha rapaza que non aguanta máis, quere facer uso do urinario, pero atópase con multitude de obstáculos que lle impiden poder relaxarse e facer as súas necesidades tranquilamente...

Eu inténtoo, e o intento, e o intento...

Todo o que facemos e creamos, non é máis que, un intento...

Ciro Guerra preséntanos esta fantástica metáfora acerca dos nosos obxectivos, as nosas ideas e os nosos desexos, que ten coma protagonista a un neno que quere xogar coa súa pelota pero nin tan sequera, por agasallos caídos do ceo, é capaz de cumprir o seu soño...

Estupenda recreación gráfica en 2D tradicional, Intento é unha animación colombiana do ano 2001, presentada en numerosos festivais e que participa na III edición de Animacam na categoría Retrospectiva

Dick Terrapin: a historia dun neno e a súa tartaruga

Un raparigo novo aprende sobre a vida a través da súa tartaruga (a súa mascota favorita). Dick Terrapin é unha película de animación debuxada a man, dirixida e escrita polo animador irlandés Damien O'Connor. Compite na categoría Retrospectiva este ano en Animacam. Damien presenta aquí unha historia encantadora sobre a doce relación entre un neno e a súa tartaruga por mascota.

IFTA (Película irlandesa e Premio De televisión) foi nominada á mellor curta. A película foi mostrada en festivais por todo o mundo e dúas veces difundida pola TV europea.

Last films in Animacam: Tout et rien by Flavie Darchen

After learning animation 2 years in the EMCA (school of animation films) in Angoulême, Flavie Darchen directed " Tout et rien ", featured now in Animacam. This short film of animation was screen on the french channel Arte and scheduled in some festivals (CICFF of Chicago, Little big shots of Melbourne, Cinéjunior in Paris).

Beside her animation projects, she organizes workshops of creation in animation with children in particular through the international project " For each problem, a solution " beside Renaud Armanet.

Last films in Animacam: Alan Cuilinn Holly

Allan `Cuilinn' Holly is an Irish animator who has featured in Animacam, two of his nice productions are participating in Animacam in the short film and retrospective category:

Tógtha is an Irish word meaning both 'built' and 'taken'. Tógtha tackles the issue of urban development and how it is frequently governed by financial profit and not what’s best for the community and its inhabitants.

The red ball is a story about a purple boy, a green ball, a red ball, a green girl, a red girl and a purple boy. The red ball is a love story between the colours, the circles, the movements and people. Sometimes it is not easy to choose the right girl, the right kiss, the right colour...

Last films in Animacam: Corte eléctrico

René es un limpiavidrios dispuesto a comenzar su jornada de trabajo. Es el día de asear la fachada del edificio OLIMPO ubicado en Chapinero, uno de los barrios mas antiguos de Bogotá, la capital de Colombia. Las calles de este populoso sector albergan el caos de una gran ciudad suramericana donde conviven diversas maneras de sobrevivir, unas mas aceptadas que otras. El interior de los edificios y las calles han presenciado durante años todo tipo de historias y secretos....

Desde la azotea del Olimpo, René se empieza a descolgar en su arnés, realizando hábilmente su labor de limpieza mientras disfruta del éxito musical de su cantante pop favorita, Lentejuela. Su despreocupación le impide sospechar lo que sucede detrás de estas ventanas sucias; su presencia va quebrantando la privacidad de los habitantes del OLIMPO que vigilan paranoicamente todos sus movimientos. Cada uno tiene su propia historia, cada uno tiene algo que ocultar.

Esta es la historia de Corte eléctrico en la que personas de toda clase, condición y oficio se involucran y entremezclan en un sinfín de coincidencias y casualidades, en las que, el protagonismo se lo lleva siempre el corte de pelo y el aseo y estilo de cada uno. La combinación de técnicas de 2D y 3D por ordenador y rotoscopia, dotan a los escenarios de una ubicación virtual casi real y muestran a los personajes con una sencillez y soltura magistral. En palabras de la autora, el film refleja una realidad "grotesta, sin maquillaje".
Dirigidida por María Arteaga y coproducida por Impala y Roboto (2D y 3D respectivamente), Corte eléctrico ha estado presente en multitud de festivales como el SICAF en Corea y Annecy en Francia, unos de los más prestigiosos y ahora, está presente con nosotros en Animacam

A continuación, os enlazamos una entrevista a la directora de la obra, realizada por Loop: Suspenso Bizarro Colombiano.

A modest proposal

1807. Abigaille is the only child in her small Irish village. Growing up she never really questioned why, until now. She asks her mother why all the other children moved away. Her mother tells her, however, that they did not move away, and Abigaille learns the true story of what happened to the children of the village during the famine. Based on 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift.

Directed by Jason Oshman, this short animated film takes a classic parody by famed Irish writer Jonathan Swift and conceptualizes it for the 21st century. The animation is fast and colorful and the voices really make the piece something special. A plot twist and a five minute running time keep the audience interested and provoke thought as well as laughter.

Anoxia y la "humanoidad"

Dos seres humanoides en búsqueda de un corazón. Esa búsqueda es el punto de equilibro sobre el cual gira la historia que nos narra Anoxia, un cortometraje elaborado por Josue Chavez, Carlos Carvajal y Mariano Espinoza, desde la Escuela de Animación Digital de la Universidad Veritas en San José (Costa Rica).

Los humanos somos los únicos seres vivos que poseemos una determinada cualidad que se nos atribuye por nuestra simple condición de ser y esencia: humanidad. Es una facultad y virtud de la cual no todos los hombres y mujeres estamos dotados. Materializando esa cualidad en el órgano vital que bombea nuestra sangre a través de venas y arterias, quizás un humanoide con corazón pueda tener humanidad... ¿O quizás ya cuenta con ella por el hecho de ser un calco robotizado de nuestra raza? Interesante obra de animación en la que una pareja de humanoides descubre que su búsqueda no es un rastreo, una visual u observación, sino que se trata de un objetivo mucho más profundo.
Presente en festivales como el LOOP 2008 en Colombia, esta es una de las obras que ha presentado esta escuela de animación a Animacam, junto con Fungi Film de Carlos Saborío.

Quidam dégomme (A sheep on the roof)

A man being forced to change his normal life, in means than the arrival of a sheep in the roof of the house in front of him.

We are looking for lots of articles written about this amazing animation. Rémy Schaepman, a young animator with an awesome technique and knowledge about the art of animation bring us an incredible art work, mixing 2D and 3D to get some fun! We choose some words from one of the nicesest blogs: Animation Blog!

A grey and dreary life, turn off the alarm clock, commute on the Paris Metro, sit with strangers, return dog tired to a lonely apartment: all communicated in a series of monochrome stills before the smoothly animated A Sheep on the Roof gets into its stride with the arrival by parachute of a sheep on the adjacent roof. As the animal makes itself ever more at home, the bemused commuter's life becomes increasingly whimsical. Gauche fellow traveller morphs to giant mother hen and brood, colourful posters appear on the Metro walls and it's party time on the journey. A life transformed forever? Rémy Schaepman made this surreal graduation film whilst at the Institute Saint-Geneviève. There's something of the eccentric world of a Nick Park here as the guy stands wide eyed at the increasingly bizarre antics occurring around him. Made with cutouts, animated in Flash, the coloured inks used in the backgrounds give a textured, watercolour effect that is very attractive. Clearly an outstanding talent, Rémy is now continuing his studies at the renowned Gobelins, l'Ecole de l'Image, in Paris.

How is the best way to find me?

A girl who get lost and confuse, she just want to find something to support, finally, what can she find?

Ng Lung Fung Grady present us a dramatic story, so sweet, pure and trying to enter in the deepest feelings of the humans. Run and escape, fight against yourself and your reality, your mind, your body. Your legs are long enough to forget the problems and finally find the answer of the highest question never made: Who I am? Solve or answer it, it's epic, unbelievebable. This cross will have different stops: crying, regert, hurt, sobing, crying again. Your tears are bullets on your heart, but the only one that can save you, it's you!

Amazing story from Lung Fung Grady, made in the Multimedia Innovation Centre- School of Design of Hong Kong, who tries to describe the bravest person: someone who is able to meet herself.

Tough guy

When we walked on a certain day road, we met a mantis. However, the mantis… Short comedy of mantis that has super-power and unfortunate couple.

Watch out! When you think on a tough guy, you imagine a strong, big and incredible person who smacks, hits and kicks you in a centesime of second... But, maybe just a little green insect could be your worst nightmare... Amazing Japanese anime makes his featuring in Animacam.tv with this Tough guy, a retrospective animation made by Shintarou Kishimoto, who mixes 2D and 3D bringing the best reality and rudness to his mantis!

Born in 1966 in Japan, Shintarou was first just a clerk in a rental video shop, but the obsession of animation took over him eventually. Tough guy is one of his first animation works.
TECHNICAL DATA: Producer: Shintarou Kishimoto Script: Shintarou Kishimoto Animator: Shintarou Kishimoto Photography: Shintarou Kishimoto Editor: Shintarou Kishimoto Sound: Shintarou Kishimoto Music: Jink

Entropy: The stars song

A young girl living on a desolate and barren world escapes the confines of her surroundings when she follows a gentle melody on the wind to the moon. In the moon she meets a strange boy. He "plays" the stars to create a beautiful music and in the moment that they are fusioned with the stars song until the darkness of the nightfall return them to their worlds.

This is the fantastic story of Entropy, the 2D short film directed by Dane Jacobs, released in 2008. Dane was born in South Africa but he lives in New Zealand from nine years old. He studies at Freelance Animation School in Auckland. There, he met Jeremy and they set up together the small animation studio Rhubarb Zoo.

Dane Jacobs won the best 2D animated project of his last year in the Freelance Animation School with this film.

Sad stories: love, tragedy and sex mixed for fun!

The episode "Wall of Sights" is a story about love, passion, sex, jealousy and death... in doggy style!

This funny and nice "sad" story was created by Dusan Kastelic, a Slovenian animation, who has created with Igor Sincovek the Bug Brain Institute, an animated iniciative, which promotes the creation, production, distribution, action and promoting animation works. Nowadays, their website is under construction, and we're expecting to know more about their works.

Dusan was Born in 1964 in small mining town, Trbovlje, in the middle of Slovenia. After study Geography and Arts, he started to teach at a elementary school, and after he found a freelance job as a Graphics Designer and Illustrator. Drawing and designing comics since he was 3 years old, the last few years, he has been working mostly in multimedia, Internet, and programming (mostly games). Currently, he's in the middle of establishing his own animation and computer games studio.
TECHNICAL DATA OF SAD STORIES: Title: "The Sad Stories" Synopsis English: Episode "Wall of Sights" is a story about love, passion, sex, jealousy and death... in doggy style! (Please watch it to the very end!) Year: 2009 Duration: 4min Country: Slovenia Animation Direc.: Dusan Kastelic Production Comp.: Bugbrain Institute Genre: Tragicomedy Technique: 2D computer (Flash).

Videogames: cambio de juego

Javier Cabrera, procedente de Argentina, nos sorprende con un cortometraje en 2D donde reúne los grandes clásicos del videojuego en un festín de colores vivos y músicas estridentes.

En Videogames podemos disfrutar en tan solo cuatro minutos y cuarenta segundos de las mejores etapas del Super Mario Bros (1985, Nintendo), Arkanoid (1986, Taito), Prince of Persia (1990, Broderbund), Sunset Riders (1991, Konami), Mortal Combat (1992, Midway) y Doom (1993, ID Software).

Con esta pieza audiovisual cualquier aficionado a los videjuegos rememorará los viejos tiempos en los que la pantalla se quedaba pequeña, las horas volaban y los dedos se entumecían ante la provocación de pasar a la siguiente fase.

All about Camilla...

He lives in animated world. He is an animated hero. But once he fells in love. His flame is not an ordinary girl. She is a famous actress and she's real...

Camilla is a very famous artist... And our heroe is one of the greatest workers all over the world. He is always awake and getting new information about novelties of culture. Suddenly, he meets Camilla. It's just paper, but he falls in love! How can he meet her? He doesn't live in the real world and she's "meat and bone person". Amazing work by Yulia Aronova, well-known Russian animator who has also made other succesfull animations like Eskimo; Beetle, boot and apricot and Mother and Music

TECHNICAL DATA:

Year: 2008
Country: Russia
Genre: Drama
Time: 20,00 min.
Format: DVD | Color
Director: Yulia Aronova
Screenwriter: Yulia Aronova
Cinematographer: Makoto Sembone
Producer: Tengiz Semenov (Animose studio)

Fantasmagorie: special tribute to 100 years of animation

A computer 3-D remake of the Emile Cohl's film FANTASMAGORIE, made on the 100th anniversary of making the first cartoon (Paris, 1908).

Rastko Ciric has directed and created this animation to give and offer a special tribute to animation creations and the oldness of this art. To share this experience with us, the author reach a nice mix between 2D and 3D, getting flahsbacks to 1908 and fast-forwads to 2008!

Rastko Ciric was born in 1955 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). He has graduated and finished Third Degree studies from the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade.

He has made lots of animated films: The Circus Departs (1982); Stop (1983); It's Not Whether You Win or Lose (1984); Tango Ragtime (1985, Dunav Film); The Tower of Bababel (1988, Zagreb Film); Ogres and Bogies (1989, Avala film); Farty (1993); Light in A-Major (1995); Invisible and Poorly Visible Animal Species (1998, Dunav Film); Magician (1999); Wanted (2001); All Together on the Wireless Machine (2004); Metamorph (2005, Rastko Ciric & BS Group)

And also, he has won lots of awards for animation: Munich 1982; Zagreb 1988; Ottawa 1988; Belgrade 1989; Titograd 1989; Belgrade 1993, Belgrade 1989; Golden Knight, Kiev, Ukraine, 1998; Belgrade, 1999; Grand-Prix, Cacak 1999; Belgrade 2005, Grand-Prix, Cacak 2005, Grand-Prix, Belgrade 2006, Moscow 2006, Hiroshima 2006

¡¡¡Que te digo que hay panteras en las paredes!!!

Sandra Ortuño vuelve a Animacam con su proyecto de fin de carrera, tras "Menu of the day" y "Salsito". Esta vez se trata de "Panteras en las paredes". Una historia basad en "The Wolves in the Walls", de Neil Gaiman.

En esta animación realizada con 2D tradicional, su autora nos cuenta la historia de Neu, una niña que comienza a oír ruidos dentro de las paredes y avisa a su familia pero, desgraciadamente, nadie le hace caso. Serán realmente panteras? o ratones? como dice su madre, o cabras? como dice su hermano... y realmente se acaba todo cuando hay panteras en las paredes?

The agronaut

The tale of a colonist trying to sustain human life on another planet. The agronaut is an amazing and curious carachter: a man who tries to be a nice and efficient farmer on the other part of the universe. A mix between astronaut and agroman, the agronaut is taking care of a big greenhouse in a lost planet.

Suddenly, some plants are getting so big, and growing up so fast... He is the only one who can save the plants for feed all the humans... how can he control this strange and dangerous sittuation? Follow Marcin Wasiliewski's story and enjoy with great Polish animation in Animacam.tv!!

Who's next? Who wins the game?

E2-E4 is a satiric animation about the violent political "games" created by Eduard Sidaruk from Belarus. Two very similar men are preparing a new game. With the same looking like chess, they started to grow up men, and then buildings, and then weapons, arms, bullets, tanks, armies, and then drop bombs, shooting and killing among them...

That's is a very funny game for them: play with lifes, families, cultures, scenaries, countries... humanity. Let's think about it! Why has this people got so much power? Nice esthetic and treatment of the animation work by Sidaruk who brings us a new and interesting point of view about the reality.

Cosquín: el festival del pueblo...

En el final de la letra del himno de Cosquín, compuesto por Zulema Alcayaga y Waldo Belloso, dice:

Ya vuelan las campanas buscando el cielo
y el nombre que nos une van repitiendo
Cosquín, Cosquín, Cosquín, Cosquín,
Cosquín, Cosquín.
Vengan a ver el milagro
Cosquín empieza a cantar.

Guillermo Casas y Juan Pablo Figueroa nos presentan la animación realizada para el inicio del Documental sobre el Festival Folclórico de Cosquín emitido por el canal Encuentros de Argentina. El documental fué filmado, producido y editado por la productora Atrox.

El Festival Folclórico de Cosquín es uno de los más importantes festivales de música folclórica de Argentina y el más importante de América Latina. Dura 9 días y se realiza en la segunda mitad de enero,en el turístico Valle de Punilla de la provincia de Córdoba. La tradición acostumbra a hacer referencia a las nueve lunas de Cosquín. Ese espíritu folclórico que caracteriza a Cosquín en los nueve días y nueve noches que dura el festival ha sido denominado como el "duende coscoíno" o "duende de Cosquín". En este documental, la vida detrás del festival, la mística que despierta en la gente, las tradicionales peñas, la actividad de los centros culturales, los personajes de la ciudad que renacen con la llegada de los artistas y el público, son algunos de los escenarios que recorrerán las cámaras.

Este proyecto audiovisual tiene una duración de cuatro capítulos y pretende reflejar el lado menos visible de Cosquín, una ciudad que cobra protagonismo nacional con cada nueva edición del festival, un fenómeno que se viene repitiendo a lo largo de estos 49 años de realización.