Work / Animation

Matthias Hoegg: Thursday

Words by Alex Bec, Tuesday 19 April 2011

The preface for Matthias Hoegg’s Thursday includes the phrases “BAFTA nomination”, “everyday love story” and “blackbirds battling with technology”, so it was obvious we were dealing with something very special. The Royal College of Art graduate has dialed straight into the heartstrings with his own brand of beautiful image making and exquisite story-telling to lighten up your Tuesday afternoon.

Work / Animation Animator Dan Castro tackles the intricacies of relationships in this funny short

Big Finds a Trumpet is about a happy character called Big who annoys his friend Little with a trumpet he finds. “It’s about relationships… and basically the fact that the people you like most can sometimes be the most annoying,” says London-based Dan Castro who created the animated short.

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Work / Animation The Shins’ latest video by Lamar+Nik is made from 5,566 hand-cut, real stickers

Given a completely open brief by Columbia Records for The Shins’ latest video, Half a Million, directing duo Lamar+Nik took the chance to make something they’d always wanted to make. “We always had this idea of a sticker trail being animated, but the surroundings remaining live-action,” explains Jesse Lamar High, one half of the duo. “We hadn’t seen it before, and there’s something really fun about taking mundane things and making them exciting. Plus it’s accessible to everyone. It’s almost as if you and your friends are going around one day putting stickers in unexpected places.”

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Work / Animation Team Tumult tells the charming tale of a man and his truck for Freitag

Big Buddy Blue tells the story of a trucker and his motorised best friend living their lives on the open road. Created by Zurich-based collective Team Tumult, the animation is part of a non-commercial initiative from Freitag, the manufacturer which creates a range of bags using the recycled tarpaulin from large lorries. The brand asked five different teams of animators to tell the story of “Freitag – from truck to bag” in completely different ways. “With our story, we tried to show that every Freitag bag already had a previous life which reflects the uniqueness of the final product and the wild soul that inhabits all of their bags,” explains Team Tumult.

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Work / Animation Animator Daniela Sherer tackles forgiveness for The School of Life

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Work / Animation Yuval Haker tackles sex, intimacy, love and anxiety in this humorous music video

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Rebecca Fulleylove — 09 August 2017
Work / Animation Adam Black's latest animation explains how to be rad

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