Best Animation Films

Animation Category

Cubed

A man with a Rubik’s Cube head who finds himself out of sync with his peers struggles to connect in Xue Enge’s final year grad short 'Cubed'.

Still from Attraction a short film by Emily Scaife

Animation

Discover How a Love for Natural Textures Led Emily Scaife to Create RCA Animation ‘Attraction’

Inspired by the textures in nature she'd been photographing Emily Scaife's 'Attraction' invites its viewers into the intricate world of insect attraction.

Animation, Art & Fashion, Documentary, Live Action, Music Video

An Interview with Vimeo’s Best Staff Pick Directors of 2018

DN talks to Vimeo's Best Staff Pick Directors of 2018 about the origins, artistic inspirations and creative approaches behind their award-winning work.

Animation, Asides

Food Porn

15 UK students flex their filth muscles in Seed Animation Studio’s collaborative short 'Food Porn' - a scandalous collection of saucy animated scenes.

Animation, Asides

Play Boys

Vincent Lynen whiles away some idle time in the company of macho men, guns, cars, motorcycles & hot girls in his chain reaction grad short 'Play Boys'.

How Have You Been? Tom Rosenthal (Official Music Video) - Heather Colbert

Animation, Music Video

Heather Colbert Looks to “Enhance the Feeling of Magic” by Combining Animation Techniques in ‘How Have You Been?’

Rising star of stop-motion Heather Colbert returns to Directors Notes to discuss her animated music video for Tom Rosenthal track 'How Have You Been?'

Animation, Asides, Music Video

Paul Jacks: Lightning Lobotomy

Eric Power deploys his signature papercraft animation style in the story of a man trying to make his way back home to normality in 'Lightning Lobotomy'.

Animation

Astrid Goldsmith Looks to Paint a “Hopeful Vision of Post-Brexit Britain” in Stop-Motion Short ‘Quarantine’

Director Astrid Goldsmith joins us to discuss funding and the importance of fabrics in her stop-motion post-Brexit pagan dance fantasy 'Quarantine'.

Animation, Asides

The Dream of Ink

Lightfarm Studios' Rafael Vallaperde’s 'The Dream of Ink' is a psychedelic sprint through a teaming marine ecosystem bursting with colour.

Animation

In a Nutshell

Fabio Friedli exhaustively encompasses the world and all that's within it in staggeringly inventive stop-motion piece 'In a Nutshell'.

Animation, Asides

Island

Max Mörtl and Robert Löbel whisk us away to a small isle populated by a menagerie of exotic creatures in their whimsical animated short 'Island'.

Animation, Art & Fashion, Article, Documentary, Live Action, Music Video

Directors Notes Top 20 Filmmaker Conversations of 2018

Team DN put our collective heads together to curate a list of the 20 favourite filmmaker conversations we had in 2018.

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