Movies: Computer animation

In a haunted cemetery, the ghost of a writer dramatizes the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, by H. P. Lovecraft, to an audience of skeletons....

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon....

Two men look at a woman. One wants her, the other one gets her....

A five-year-old Scottish boy discusses the best way for a group of small dinosaurs to stop a big dinosaur from picking on them. The boy's short discussion with his father is brought to life using a mix of 2D and 3D computer-generated animation....

Two egg-shaped clown performers try out new ways to impress audiences....

Two workers are chased by a lion on the rooftops of a large American city....

Mr. Holybar (the local chocolate bar priest) makes a late visit to Lolli's home. Her daughter Twizzly, is usually such a sweet girl, but lately, has been acting healthy....

Short experimental video art by Barbara Sykes....

In uncertain times, a small group of creature gets together for sharing a feast....

Dream sequences created using 3D particle systems techniques. Behavior rules are applied to thousands of individual particles to model complex phenomena such as an explosion, a snowstorm, a tumultuous head, and a waterfall. A Connection Machine CM-2 ...

This narrated computer animation, with an original musical score, illuminates cellular mitosis. DNA self-replicates; chromosomes divide into two daughter cells; but it begins with a hormone entering the nucleus of a cell....

This film test is a demonstration of Pixar's early attempts to research, analyze and recreate qualities of motion, shading and lighting that make water believable. Said techniques are later expanded upon in "Finding Nemo"...

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional ...

"Recluse" is a short film I wanted to make as challenge to see if I could tell an effective story without dialogue and complete it in a 30 day time span. It ended up stretching out over the course of many months, mostly because I was getting "When Bl...

An aging piano player looks back on his life....

Lead by the newly-reformed Burton the elf with the aid of young Jennifer and Isaac the elf, the Christmas Brigade sets out to stop the evil Dr. D and to fulfill Santa's mission to bring the magic of Christmas to every single day of the year....

To save his ailing sister, an unlikely hero must journey afar to pluck a feather from the mighty Gryphon in this animated parody of the classic fairy tale....

Witness to a murder in a dark, deserted underground station, an innocent chameleon must choose between being the killer or the savior—but does he really have a choice?...

Two unidentified individual falling in love with each other one minute before the end of the world....

John H. Whitney Sr. explains the graphic art potential of the computer and the methods and philosophy involved in his computer filmmaking. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012....