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Animation Release of the Week: Crow Man 🐦‍⬛

How far would you go to stop the inevitable?

Discovered at Cannes (La Cinef) and Annecy, Crow Man is the breathtaking graduate film from young Lebanese visionary Yohann Abdelnour

In a lonely cabin by a lake, a little girl watches the light fade from her grandfather’s eyes. But she isn’t ready to say goodbye. When Death,a spindly, skeletal creature, emerges from the shadows of the Lebanese woods, she doesn’t hide. She fights.

Yohann Abdelnour has created more than just a short film; he’s captured a feeling. It’s a haunting, textured, and deeply personal reflection on loss and the fierce innocence of childhood.

This is the new face of Lebanese animation: raw, atmospheric, and impossible to forget.

👀 Watch "Crow Man" on Animatic

#animationshortfilm #animatic #CrowMan #YohannAbdelnour #LebaneseCinema #DarkFantasy #ShortFilm #Cannes #Annecy #Storytelling

5 days ago | [YT] | 7

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Animation Release of the Week: The External World 🎹🌍🎬

A boy learns to play the piano… but things quickly spiral out of control.

In this darkly funny and surreal cult short, David O’Reilly builds a chaotic universe where absurdity, cruelty, and repetition collide — a sharp reflection of modern life.

Premiered at Sundance and Clermont-Ferrand, The External World is as hilarious as it is unsettling.

👀 Watch now on Animatic

#animationshortfilm #animatic #animation #arthouse #shortfilm #darkcomedy #surreal #festivalfilm #watchnow

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

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Animation Release of the Week: We Are Human, After All 🐇❄️🎬

A wild hare battles winter, hunger, and hunters, until he discovers the strangely comfortable life of domesticated rabbits… and decides to try it out.

But comfort comes at a cost...

Jan Míka crafts a sharp, slightly dark & ironic tale about survival vs. conformity, told through a raw, tactile mix of hand-drawn animation, cut-out textures, and live-action compositing that gives the film its gritty, almost documentary-like feel.

Premiered at Annecy and beyond, equal parts fable, satire, and existential crisis… but with rabbits!

👀 Watch now on Animatic

#animationshortfilm #animatic #animation #arthouse #shortfilm #rabbit #fable #easter #darkhumor #festivalfilm #watchnow #rabbits

1 month ago | [YT] | 6

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Animation Release of the Week: Le Printemps (The Spring) 🎬👹🌸

Step into the forest for "Le Printemps," a haunting & joyful 15-minute ritual by director Jérôme Boulbès. Created during a residency at Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), this film is a masterful blend of digital surrealism and Japanese traditional aesthetics.

A unique hybrid of motion capture and professional puppetry techniques that makes the masked characters feel eerily alive.

No dialogue, only a powerful acoustic score featuring the Shô, Taiko, and Koto that drives the ceremony toward its sacrificial climax.

👀 Don't miss this joyful celebration of spring that plays like a dark, ancient myth unearthed!


#animationshortfilm #animatic #animation #spring #nature #tales #visualart #streaming #watchnow

1 month ago | [YT] | 5

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Hi! I’m Moustique!

Some of you may know me from the Belgium comic books “Fucking Cat” (Putain de chat), by Lapuss’ and Tartuff.

Great news, I’m about to become an animated series star! But for that, my dumb humans who are trying to produce the project need your help.

Sign up to our upcoming crowdfunding to follow the project, help the producers and see me kick humans asses for 30 episodes!

Join the chaos just here: fr.ulule.com/putaindechat/coming-soon/


#animatic #crowdfunding #bd #comics #animatedshortfilm #animation #trailer #indieaniamtion

1 month ago | [YT] | 6

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Animation Release of the Week: Kreismurriana (2026) 🎬🐾

Our release of the week, "Kreismurriana," is a masterclass in lively, handmade textures. Director Matteo Bernardini uses watercolors and paper techniques to create a surrealist trip through 19th-century Romanticism and Ghotic fiction.

No dialogue, just pure, hallucinatory motion. A surrealist tribute to E.T.A. Hoffmann that focuses on the visual rhythm of Robert Schumann’s music.

It’s less like watching a movie and more like watching a sketchbook come to life in a fever dream! 🎨✨

#Animation #Animatedshortfilm #TraditionalAnimation #HandPainted
#AnalogAesthetic #Textured #Experimental #ArtInMotion #NeverbirdProductions #MatteoBernardini #Hoffmann #Schumann

2 months ago | [YT] | 1

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Our new animation of the week, “The Sun is Bad”, takes us to the neon-soaked streets of 1980s Hong Kong. Inspired by the high-energy grit of HK New Wave and classic action cinema, a temperamental girl decides she’s had enough and officially declares war on the sun☀️🏙️

If you’re shivering under a blanket, this nostalgic battle against the heat is the perfect watch.

Enjoy the battle! and Drop a comment with your thoughts on the animation✨

#thesunisbad #animationshortfilm #hongkong #80s #hknewwave #actioncinema #indieanimation #hk #kungfu #wixia #animation

2 months ago | [YT] | 1

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Over 300K views, 22K likes, and 1K comments - we are absolutely blown away by the love Playing God has received on this channel, in collaboration with @StudioCromaAnimation & @shortoftheweek 🤍

And we’re incredibly proud to share that the film is on the Oscars 2026 shortlist for Best Animated Short Film 🏆

For those who haven't stepped into this world yet: Playing God is a stunning and dark stop-motion film. Using handcrafted puppets and clay, it explores themes of creation, perfection, and abandonment in a haunting reinterpretation of the Frankenstein myth.


As a thank you for your incredible support, we’ve decided to extend the film’s availability until January 22! ✨

If you haven’t watched it yet, now is the time. If you have, we’d love to hear your theories and thoughts in the comments. Your support truly means the world to us!

#stopmotion #animation #animationshortfilm #playinggod #stopmotionlovers #claymation #shortfilm #oscars2026 #streaming #shortlist #shorts

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 21

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💉If you loved the monstrous “The Substance” and its frenzied quest for eternal youth, then don't miss our weekly animation “Screen Romance”, in which a former star doesn't support getting older. She is ready to do anything to stay young, sinking gradually into delirium.

Enjoy the film and see you next week for our new release!✨


#screenromance #animationshortfilm #animatic #fantasy #animation #2d #bodyhorror #thesubstance

1 year ago | [YT] | 3

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🧠🤯Today a special release with a groundbreaking hybrid-animation from the indie animator Chris Shepherd, whom you may already have seen his shorts films on our channel. As if taken from an old episode of Doctor Who, we're plunged into the fantastical world of a young boy who imagines all kinds of crazy things about his strange and a little too noisy neighbor. But, of course, there are consequences...

Enjoy the film and see you next week for our new release!✨

#silenceisgold #animationshortfilm #animatic #fantasy #animation #2d #british #shortfilm #youtube

1 year ago | [YT] | 1