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Cedric

January 2006 •German

Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.

Malice@Doll

April 2001 •Japanese

Robot prostitute Malice@Doll roams a deserted city unsuccessfully looking for johns after the human race is obliterated. With no people left, the android serving class has a meaningless existence. But after a horrific tentacled beast rapes Malice@Doll, she inexplicably turns human. With a renewed purpose in life, she tries to share the gift of humanity with others of her kind, but with every gift comes a curse... Malice@Doll was originally released as a 3 episode OVA series from April 27, 2001 to June 22, 2001 but would later be re-released as a singular 80min long film on some DVD releases.

A Hole

April 2019 •English

The world is about to be swallowed by a black hole. Meteorites fall from the sky, ocean waves take on enormous new heights, and chaos abounds in city streets as people confront their looming demise. The world turns to wealthy entrepreneur, Rob Bilford, whose “Escape Lottery” offers the only chance at continuing the human legacy.

Video Weavings

January 1974 •English

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.

Digit

January 1979 •English

Abstract animation set to music

Vivo

July 2021 •English

A music-loving kinkajou named Vivo embarks on the journey of a lifetime to fulfill his destiny and deliver a love song for an old friend.

Spirit Untamed

May 2021 •English

Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Earwig and the Witch

February 2021 •Japanese

A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.

SynthaVision Sample Reel

October 1974 •English

Synthavision was an early computer CGI technology developed by MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group, Inc.), and one of the first systems to implement a ray-tracing algorithmic approach to hidden surface removal in rendering images, using solid primitives with combinatorial operators rather than the polygons or wireframe meshes that most CGI companies use today. This demo sampler was directed by golden age animator Jack Zander and designed by Joanne Mitchell, and showcases the technology and its capabilities through short segments of experimental animation and colorful compositions.

Water Lily : la naissance des lotus

September 2015 •French

Water Lily, an invented japanese tale about the birth of the lotus flower, made in Supinfocom Valenciennes (2015) !

Grandma's Pie

June 2018 •English

A hungry dragon chases after an oblivious grandma that is too focused on making her favorite apple pie to notice the death and destruction going on around her...

Mechanical Dance

October 2019 •French

A music box ballerina frees herself from the mechanism that imprisons her.

The Esoteric Retina

January 1994 •English

A video CD by Japanese visual artist, musician, and game developer Osamu Sato.

Blobby Man

January 1979 •English

3D animation test of a blob turning into a humanoid figure, performing ballet, and back to a blob again before zooming off into the distance.

Dirty Pool

April 2016 •

Dirty Pool is a two minute 3d animation short film created by Brent Forrest in 2016. The short was inspired by the Charlotte Room in Toronto, Canada and JP the cheating drunk who couldn't beat the director at pool if his life depended on it. All sound FX were self recorded with an iphone in a pool hall in Tokyo.

Don't Get Out

December 2019 •English

Jess, a commodities broker, is finishing up a long day of trading. He just wants to get home and spend the evening with his girlfriend. His plan gets thwarted when he starts seeing and hearing some very strange things around the office. From there, things go from the macabre to the grotesque as Jess finds himself in a fight for his life to escape his place of business.

Within the Shadow of the Tree: Dark Dreams

September 2010 •English

A little character named The Small One must try and set a spell right that was cast by his adopted father, a powerful wizard, who was once the protector of the land Marimdorph before he died.

Las Aventuras de Rataldo

June 2007 •Spanish

Voyage of the Chimera

June 2021 •English

A young, civilian aristocrat with no practical military experience must lead his bottom-dollar crew on a dangerous mission and overcome his youth, inexperience, and self doubt in this microbudget sci-fi drama.

Hyperland

September 1990 •English

This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s and early 1990s: hypertext, multimedia, virtual assistants, interactive video, 3D animation, and virtual reality.