Guillermo García Carsí & El Señor Studio: Doomed: a biological cartoon!


Finally online in all its full-length glory, Doomed: a biological cartoon! by Guillermo García Carsí and El Señor Studio introduce us to endearingly bizarre animals with questionable abilities to play the game of natural selection. Carsí is the creator of the internationally successful children’s show, Pocoyo and Doomed! shares the series’s focus on crafted character design against a simple background.

The wildlife documentary format, made famous by David Attenborough and Marty Stouffer, has inspired many an artist with its stranger than fiction zombie fungus insects and decked out birds of paradise. As with any template, playing within this form creates grounds ripe for humor, as in Waverly Films’ The Amazing Lyrebird of Australia – Unseen Footage. It’s a great framework for a television show – allowing El Señor to highlight as few or many creatures in one setting as they want, as well as leaving the door open to explore real world settings in the future – as hinted in the end of the short.

Hat tip to Short of the Week.

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Cocoe : Fondo Del Agua (Water Fund)

What’s not to like about this? To me, anyway, this is another one of those ‘tick-all-the-right-boxes’ kind of spot. Cocoe, the Madrid-based multidisciplinary design studio, was commissioned by Shackleton, to create this spot for the Spanish government, which promotes:

“Fondo de cooperación para agua y saneamiento”- a public institution dealing with water supply and sanitation tasks- is a project that meets one of the “millennium goals”: reduce the proportion of  people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015.’

It supports a humanitarian cause, carries a social message. (tick). Stylistically, it’s adorable, friendly and very accessible. (tick). Technically, it’s well executed, the animation of the characters, especially the little girl and her dog, simply delightful. (tick).

Just like the Story of Kakenya which was posted last week, pieces like this gives me hope, that as animators and designers, we can use our skills for the greater good! Keep ‘em coming, I’d say!


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TVE La Hora de Jose Mota

La Hora de Jose Mota

Fresh from Oink digital, Madrid. Tomás Peña directed this show opener for La Hora de Jose Mota. With a crew of 6 people and only 6 weeks (and a miniscule budget to match), they achieved quite a feat!


Credits
Director: Tomás Peña
Client: Hill Valley
Production Company: Oink Digital
Executive Producer: Alvaro Isasi
Art Direction: Tomás Peña, Paulo Mosca
Animation Direction: Jose Antonio Cerro
Technical Direction: Carlos Diéguez
Design y Concept Art: Paulo Mosca
Modeling: Carlos Diéguez, Gerardo del Hierro
Rigging: Carlos Diéguez
Textures: Gerardo del Hierro, Carlos Diéguez, Tomás Peña
Ilumination, Shading: Carlos Diéguez, Gerardo del Hierro
Composition: Tomás Peña, Daniel Kei Kaneda, Gerardo del Hierro
Color Correction: El Colorado
Soundtrack: Enrique Borrajeros

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TVE La Hora de Jose Mota