Good Visuals Shorts


  • This page contains works that I did not include in my overall shorts recommendations, but that have good visuals (both design and animation were ranked as "good" or "great").
  • Works are in order of visual preference (weighted towards design).
image Hugh | video
  • info | ESMA | 2008 | France
  • Review: great design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Excellent design, animation, and characters, but the concept/writing are not compelling
image The man with the chicken head
  • a.k.a.: L’homme à tête de poule
  • info | Supinfocom | 2007 | France
  • Review: great design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals
image The Passenger | video
  • info | Chris Jones | 2009
  • Synopsis: A haunting comedic tale of a strange passenger on a bus.
  • Review: great design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Very nice design and high quality animation, lacking a better concept and stronger comedic writing
image Ryan
  • info | Chris Landreth | 2004 | Canada
  • Review: great design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Innovative animation with very limited-appeal writing
image Venice Beach
image The Bird
  • info | Nakyoung Kim | 2008
  • Review: great design, good animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Some spectacular designs (except for the plasticy face of the father) with an underdeveloped concept and weak writing
image La Dernière Minute
  • info | Forêt Bleue | 2004 | France
  • Review: great design, good animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Great visuals
image Meet Meline | video
  • info | Virginie Goyons & Sebastien Laban | 2009 | France
  • Review: great design, good animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Beautiful environment designs, impressively realistic camera animation, and a realistic little girl (except a little plasticy with some clunky animation); however, the writing was missing something to make it all more compelling
image 458nm
  • info | Filmakademie | 2006 | Germany
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Interesting realistic design
image 8848
  • info | Supinfocom | 2006 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals
image THE AERONAUT
image ANIMA
  • info | Supinfocom | 2008 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice design and animation limited by a quirky concept
image Annie and Boo
  • info | Johannes Weiland | 2003 | Germany
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Environments and creature animation is good, but human animation and writing/characters are weak
image Blind Spot
  • info | Gobelins | 2008 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals, but comedic writing is not properly developed
image The Brush
image clikclak
  • info | Supinfocom | 2005 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Creative concept with nice visuals
image Coach
image CODEHUNTERS
  • info | Axis (Ben Hibon) | 2006 | UK
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Some cool action sequences
image Do Penguins Fly?
  • a.k.a.: Les pingouins volent-ils ?
  • info | Planktoon | 2006 | France
  • Review: good design | animation | concept, weak writing
    [Note] Weak comedy
image Docteur Trifulgas
  • info | Waide Somme (Jerome Chorton) | 2005 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals
image Eternal Gaze
  • info | Sam Chen | 2003
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Some interesting visuals with very limited appeal
image Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
  • a.k.a.: Même les pigeons vont au paradis
  • info | BUF | 2006 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals
image Fanboy
image Finders Keepers
  • info | Ringling College | 2008
  • Review: good design | animation | concept, weak writing
    [Note] Weak comedic writing
image Hit and Run
  • info | Ringling College | 2009
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals with weak comedic writing
image Jona/Tomberry
image KUDAN | video
  • info | Links DigiWorks | 2008 | Japan
  • Review: good design | animation, basic concept, weak writing
    [Note] Cool design and animation with story telling that I could not appreciate
image The Lady and the Reaper
  • a.k.a.: La dama y la muerte
  • info | Kandor Graphics | 2009 | Spain
  • Review: good design | animation | concept, weak writing
    [Note] Weak comedic writing
image Lucia
  • info | Felix Gönnert | 2004 | Germany
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Dated animation with weak lighting and textures
image The Minor Factor
  • a.k.a.: Facteur Mineur
  • info | Supinfocom | 2008 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Interesting character design/animation and impressive environmental designs
image My Little Angel
image Negadon: The Monster from Mars
  • info | Jun Awazu | 2005 | Japan
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals
image One Fine Day
  • info | Ringling College | 2009
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Pretty cool design and animation with very weak comedic writing
image Real Birds don't Barf
image RED RABBIT
  • info | Filmakademie | 2007 | Germany
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Incredibly realistic environment design
image Rough AppRoach
image Street Stories - Episode 14: "To Air is Human"
image Ten
  • a.k.a.: Dix
  • info | The Mill | 2009 | France
  • Review: good design | animation, weak concept | writing
    [Note] Nice visuals
image Things That Go Bump in the Night
image True Color
image Tulip Street