SOAR - An Animated Short Films **ACADEMY AWARD WINNING**

A cross between Miyazaki and Pixar, SOAR is an award-winning 3D animated movie about a young girl who must help a tiny boy pilot fly home before it's too late.

Soar was created as Alyce Tzue's thesis project in school. What began as a toil of love by first-time filmmakers ended up catching the eyes of festivals all over the world. Soar is the proud 2015 Gold Winner of the 42nd Student Oscars, Best Student Animation Winner at Palm Springs, Finalist at the Student BAFTAs, and has screened in the Hamptons, St. Louis, Seoul, Austin, and more.

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French Roast - Short Animation

This short film comes with a moral lesson – don’t judge a book by its cover. Created by Fabrice O. Jubert, an animator who used to work at DreamWorks, French Roast is about a high-class businessman who forgot his wallet while having coffee at a fancy coffee shop.

To buy him time in finding a solution without getting embarrassed, he keeps on ordering coffee. As the day (and the coffee) goes on, our protagonist meets some characters in the film who eventually help him out of his predicament.

French Roast was also nominated for Best Animated Short Film in the 2009 Academy Awards.



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Lily & the Snowman

Cineplex, a theatre circuit in Canada, is running “Lily and the Snowman”, an animated short film featuring a young woman and a snowman.

It’s a touching piece about growing up and remembering the things in life that matter. Every winter, a magical snowman puts on a cinematic show for a little girl. But over time, life pulls them apart.

Will she remember to take the time for what she loved?

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Animated Short HD: "Take Me Home"

Watch this touching animated short film by the talented Nair Archawattana! Synopsis : In a cold, dark dog shelter, a young beagle is waiting for the right one to take him home.

Time passes by, the beagle is getting desperate. Until one day, when hope finally shine upon him. He has to do everything he can to leave the place.

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Feast: Short Film - Animated - Winner - Oscars 2015

Feast took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. The short was attached to the Disney animated film Big Hero 6 last fall. Now, months later, the story about a lovable dog with a huge appetite has fetched director Patrick Osborne an Oscar.

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Defective Detective: The Adorably Bad Sleuth

Another entry in the Student Animation Festival happening over at Cartoon Brew, Defective Detective is the work of the Ringling College of Art and Design‘s Avner Gellar and Stevie Lewis. And it features a detective who doesn’t have the best instincts, a bit of murder, and a nice old lady who can take care of herself.

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Best Animation Short Film - Goya winner

The Spanish Academy of the Arts and Sciences of Cinema revealed its 28th Goya winners in the field of animation on Sunday, 9 February 2014.

In the short animation category, Cuerdas by Pedro Solís García won the Goya for Best Animated Short Film.


Strings (Cuerdas) is the second short film directed by Pedro Solis Garcia, after his short film "LA BRUXA" 2011. It is a 10-minute short that tells the story of a friendship between Maria and a very special child who arrives at her school.

"When you do a short you are to win a Goya." With these words, Pedro Solís received its second Goya in the category of best animated short by Strings, his second short film, which tells how Maria routine at school will be altered by the arrival of a very special child. They soon become inseparable friends.

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Animation: Reaping For Dummies

Oh now this one really made me smile – Reaping For Dummies is a short animated film by a group of five students on the 3D design and animation course at Idèfagskolen in Tønsberg, Norway. A trainee Grim Reaper shows up in a desolate ghsot town in the Old West to claim the only inhabitant, a wee, old man, but the diminutive elder cowboy has no plans to go to meet his maker peacefully, setting of a series of chases and traps that are right out of those classic Looney Tunes cartoons. The animation is very fine too – some real care has been taken with rendering the texture of the character’s skin, expressions, clothes etc, it’s funny and it is really nice animation work too, give yourself a few minutes of smile time to enjoy it:

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