Beautiful and clever student animation

Here's some exceedingly lovely student CGI animation that also manages to tell a great little story. I'm reminded of Neil Gaiman's story "Other People" from his excellent collection Fragile Things (to say more would be a spoiler!).

Hemlock by Tyson Ibele (Thanks, Noah!)

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GaryG

xaaaaannnnn-aaaaa-duuuuuuu-ooooooo
Anonymous

That was REALLY good.
Anonymous

why is it that animations by “students” are better than major film companies most of the time. I think they are higher in quality and always have a cooler story line. iLike.
Anonymous

It just goes to show, you can’t be too careful.
Xopher

Man, that is GREAT STUFF.

I’ll ROT-13 my question, since it contains a spoiler: Nz V gur bayl bar jub guvaxf gur svefg thl jnf n ebobg sebz gur ortvaavat, naq gur jngre whfg ohearq njnl gur syrfu furyy? Rivqrapr: gur eng.
spejic

(ROT-13 answer) Ab – V guvax vg vf gung gur jngre tvirf rgreany yvsr ol gheavat gur qevaxre vagb n ebobg. Gur ebobg zna jnfa’g cebgrpgvat gur jryy nf zhpu nf cebgrpgvat crbcyr sebz qevaxvat vg.
Jude_Calvert_Toulmin_FDL

Thanks for posting this. Amazing.

You may like the work of Carlos Villarreal Kwasek. His short Climber, made whilst still a student at Vancouver Film School, has won many international awards. You can see that here, it’s a couple of minutes long.

His animation reel is here, no less stunning.
Anonymous

this was a bit creepy
Anonymous

I’m with spejic (side note: ROT-13 is awesome!).

Blizzard should hire him for their cinematic department; in the beginning I felt like I could be watching a trailer for Diablo III, the atmosphere was so spot-on.
Xopher

Nu. Gung znxrf n ybg zber frafr, npghnyyl.
Itsumishi

An AJAX rot-13 app wouldn’t be the worst idea for blogs in general.

Certainly would be nicer than trying to decipher disemvoweled messages.
Dustin Driver

I love how he can only communicate with gurgles, whistles, and plumes of steam. Nice touch.

Bravo.
John_T

Cool vid.

The ROT13 comments prompted me to make a mozilla ubiquity plugin for it.

In-page conversion, sweet. Check it out here:
http://tinyurl.com/rot13mozilla

Even if you couldn’t care less about ROT13, I’d highly recommend checking out ubiquity.
Anonymous

This guy is far from a student. More like the god of animation. check out his website to see more awesome.
jimh

MAH BUCKIT. I WANTS IT.
Anonymous

Huh – I was thinking the water had a switching type of property, and so that who ever drinks it goes from flesh->mech, or vise versa, and that the last person who has drunk it must stay until someone else comes along.
Hippocratic Oaf

From the outset, this reminded me a great deal of The Cat With Hands.

In case you haven’t seen it, it’s another short film.
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unGHoD8ysk0
libraryboi

You can learn more about Ibele at his web site http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/main.htm

He is self-taught and an exceedingly talented CG artist as this short and his other gallery videos demonstrate.
edinblack

Bears a certain family resemblance to Jan Svankmajer’s 1992 short film Food (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j7bypVxL8
Anonymous

lrnu v graq gb nterr, gur jngre unf orra gbyq gb tvir rgreany yvsr, ohg haxabja gb gur zna, tvirf yvsr va na ebobgvp sbez. v thrff gur ebobg naq gur zbhfr gevrq gb cebgrpg crbcyr sebz n greevoyr sngr…

-ROT-13 rocks :D
tsteele999

I spent 10 minutes looking for my copy of “Fragile Things” when I remembered I got the paperback and probably left it in the break room at work. A little Googling and I remembered it was the story about Hell.
Doug Nelson

An AJAX rot-13 app wouldn’t be the worst idea for blogs in general.
padster123

Really nicely done. Great lighting and a super camera style (where lots of student CG shorts fail).

WIN!