Sometimes it's not all about visuals, just about the story.  Here we get short that minimal in visuals, but great in concept.  The short starts with a blocky character that is pretty in a cubical room and draws a rectangle on a piece of paper.  He does until the stack of paper is finished.  When the clock is at 12:00, they all stop and you see that the last piece of paper has it's rectangular shape fading.  Everything is timed perfectly at a single beat.  The strokes, the opening of the marker, everything.  For some reason the main character drops his marker.  This total out of his and everybody's character.

In the mean time we get cuts of a person playing the drums.  We don't know what's going on.  Later we find out it's his heart.  I'm not sure what the short was saying, but from what I'm guessing it's that we're not robots.  Our souls/"heart" is what makes us different and alive.  Well, that my gist of it.  I guess the meaning of the story is open to interpetation.

So what do we have here? Looks like we'll be getting some kind of new Batman every year until 2013. So you're saying what the hell is he thinking. Well, for starters, there's going to be a new straight to dvd release of the animated Batman: Year One coming out at the end of October. Then next year we'll have the final installment to Nolan's Batman saga. Then in 2013 Cartoon Network will be getting a new Batman.

So what sets the Cartoon Network's Batman from the rest of the other animated Batman? Well, this will be the first CGI animated Batman series. We'll be able to see batman in the CG world. Think of it ala Transformers Prime animated series. Let's just hope it will be a very dark Batman and not a lot of bright colors.

Check out this promotion art for the series called Beware the Batman airing sometime in 2013 on Cartoon Network. I'm not sure about the design, but I'm sure it'll grow on me if the story is good. Now if only Cartoon Network could start airing new Thundercats episodes.

See what you can do with a little macro shooting and some 3D skills.  Check out  Gecko Animation's logo animation.  The video has some great interesting subject.  Add the great sound design and you've got a well composed shot that's sure to keep the audience wanting more.  Even just for a logo animation, I'd like see more.

Here's another great creation by Alex Glawion.  Known for his abstract shorts.  Also known in the Blender community for using Blender for modeling, animating, and rendering.  In his latest short, his graduation film, he shows a little teaser of  "The Risk Not Taken".  Not much is known about this short, but Alex plans to premiere it at the Blender Conference this year.

Nothing like a short animation to watch when you've been seeing too much vlogs on the internet.  The tale of Mr. Revus is the creation of Scriblabs Studios.  This little production was done by one person.  That one person did all the art direction, modeling, animating,edit, rendering.  Basically all the visuals.  The soundtrack was recorded live with an orchestra.

The art style takes the painterly look of 2d and add the 3D element.  Though some of the designs of the ghost or monsters are strange, the goofiness of their looks add to the personality of the short.  If you'll like watching animation shorts this is the one for you.  The whole production is top notch from the visuals to the soundtrack and don't forget the story aswell.

I was looking through my old blog links and clicked on @KeithLango. In one of his recent posts, I was pleasantly surprised to see a live action short film he made called "My Bathroom". For those unfamiliar, Keith Lango is an animator and when I was younger I'd study his CG shorts to figure out how to animate characters. If I remember correctly, I think he worked at "Big Idea". Back in the day, it was an animation studio in a Chicago suburb that all CG kids were familiar with.

In any case, "My Bathroom" is about a puppet doing his thing in the bathroom. The music fits well and the cinematography is great. It's funny, simple, and sweet. It's pretty amazing how the puppets were hand made. More amazing is how it took only 10 hours to shoot and edit the piece. If there's anyone out there who's thinking about filming cuddly little creatures like, oh say an old Husky, watch this short! For everyone else press play below and enjoy.

My Bathroom from Keith Lango on Vimeo.