Hello and happy March! It’s officially a new month which means it’s time for a new theme!
Introducing the March Finds all focused on animated shorts.
According to the Oscars, there are specific rules to be qualified as an animated short. (And yes these are more stringent since they apply to submissions for an Academy Award, but a lot of the same principles still apply.)
“An animated film is defined as a motion picture in which movement and characters’ performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, and usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: narrative or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include but are not limited to hand-drawn animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cutout animation, pinscreen, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects created frame-by-frame and drawing on the film frame itself. Motion capture and real-time puppetry are not by themselves animation techniques. An animated short film has a running time of 40 minutes or less. An animated feature film has a running time of more than 40 minutes. In an animated film, the animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture’s running time. In addition, a narrative animated film must have a significant number of the major characters animated. If the picture is created in a cinematic style that could be mistaken for live-action, the filmmaker(s) must also submit information supporting how and why the picture is substantially a work of animation rather than live-action. Documentary short subjects that are animated may be submitted in either the Animated Short Film category or the Documentary Short Subject category, but not both.”
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Icebound by Drew Christie
Duet by Glen Keane
Friends by Florian Grolig
Zero by Zealous Creative
Kitbull by Pixar SparkShorts
Familiers by ESMA Movies
Finito by Mauricio Bartok and Gabriel D’orazio
Alight directed by Jason Keyser