Tops with Pops

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.

Pepé describes his house. He plays in the rain. At night he admires the stars, enjoys the vegetation and the colors of the afternoons. The animals around him look at him in amazement, he infects them with joy. Pepe is happy to live in his house, which is Earth.

In Ukraine, three deformed orphans decide to visit their mother. The first one has several eyes on his head and a disgusting fish in his aquarium; the second has deformed legs; the third one has two heads. They walk to a Nuclear Power Plant that they believe is their mother. However they are rescued and brought back to the orphanage where a boy with deformed teeth mocks them all.

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To his horror, he finds it to be alive with mites, and, in disgust, leaves the table. Hundreds of mites resembling crabs are seen scurrying in all directions. A wonderful picture and a subject hitherto unthought of in animated photography. Notable for being the first science film made for the general public.(IMDB)

This Spanish-language short was made using stop-motion animation and features very simple sets and characters. However, despite the relatively low budget, the film turns out to be a very effective way to teach kids about the dangers of unprotected sex. The film begins with three teenage girl dolls sitting on a bench. Without using actual words but sort of a Sims-type speech ("Bla, bla, bla"), the first girl describes her perfect man. Then, suddenly, he appears---as does a bed...

Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!

This bone-chilling minimalistic animation film (made with black, white and red colors only) is voiced by the director herself, the Australian illustrator Anita Lester, whose grand-aunt had lost her entire family in Nazi camps and has then gone mad. Her confused, distorted, extrapolated memories full of despair and horror, of mysterious interiors and someone’s eyes, became the foundation of this impressive conceptual short film.

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.

Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest.

A tragic story filled with tears and money of the audience, telling about the life of a simple food deliverer Nurlan, who fell into the insidious clutches of the world-famous comedian Bogdan.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

An old frying pan accidentally gets tossed out and ends up encountering many animals in his journey.

The Robot Moles is an adorable story about flowers, moles, dumb scientists and a little girl.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.

A short animated film by Tadanaro Okamoto.