Animation Showcase

Summer Bliss is a short film about a woman on a relaxing vacation somewhere in the Mediterranean. Everything seems to be going well, from red martinis to shopping trips. A dark and twisted secret is hidden deep underground, on the premises of the luxurious summer house, behind this colorful façade. No dialogue.

The featured abstract mood piece in this short animation film is about a girl's psychological journey through fear and escape; it is not meant to be literal and is intended for interpretation purposes only. No dialogue.

See Vlad's animation showreel. No dialogue.

See some of Brandon's top work in this animation showreel. No dialogue.

Enjoy this short film, Qalupalik, produced by a group of second year animation students. No dialogue.

Watch Eden's short film, 'The Sea'. No dialogue.

See Adrienne van Vuuren's animation showreel. No dialogue.

Deep below the water where the sea creatures belong, 

Tiny the young turtle was swimming and having fun. 

His mum was watching close by as her baby swam about. 

Bright, colourful pieces were scattered all around. 

They almost looked like sweeties falling to the ground. 

Tiny was so curious he went to take a bite. 

Mother turtle swam right in - he sure gave her a fright! 

No my dear, you must’n’t eat them, they may seem rather beautiful 

But they won’t leave your tummy full 

The humans outside our world use our home as a dumping ground. 

I know, my dear, it’s very sad, but try not to frown .

Mummy, why don’t we stop them? Save our pretty home?

Stop these plastics getting here and get them to leave us alone?

The turtle family thought as they swam to and fro,

Until they had an idea to clean the world they know.

They spread out scattering seaweed flyers to get other creatures to help.

They all started to gather, holding bits of kelp.

One by one the plastics started to disappear,

But Tiny know they it come back as it’s humans they fear.

They need to help cut down on plastic use; be more sustainable. 

 

Don’t let Tiny’s world get worse - it will be too late if we don’t go first.

Swap single uses for reusables, cut down on packages things,

Tell your families and your friends to spread their eco wings.

We may not have started this, but this is our home too.

We can come together to keep fighting it forever.

Watch 'Far Away' by Evelina. No dialogue.

Enjoy Sudhir's short film, 'Fantasy XII'. No dialogue.

Joel: Why didn't you just hang back like I told you to? 

Ellie: Well you're glad I didn't, right? 

Joel: I'm glad I didn't get my head blown off by a goddam kid. 

Ellie: You know what, no. How about 'Hey Ellie, I know it wasn't easy but it was either him or me! Thanks for saving me ass.' You got anything like that for me, Joel? 

Joel: We gotta get going. 

Boy 1: How long is it going to take to find this spooky house of yours? 

Boy 2. You insisted on coming. 

Boy 2: This book says this is supposed to be the witch's house, but it doesn't look like anything in the photographs. 

Lady: Oh, that's just a myth. People have made up some horrible rumours about me being some witch. 

Watch Anna Obrecka's final film 'One Missed Call'. No dialogue. 

Hi Mum, hi Dad. Hope you're having a good trip. Looking forward to seeing you soon. Bye! 

Watch Elvey Mensah-Afram's short Animation film 'Atmos Village'. No dialogue.

Once up on a time when the universe was born...

Thank you. How lucky I have been to have had all of you... How lucky, indeed. 

Watch Rhianne Macswan's Animation 2021 showreel. No dialogue. 

Watch Natalie Kusi-Aidoo's short Animation film 'Follow the Light'. No dialogue.

Watch Amber Jones' Animation 2021 showreel. No dialogue.

[Alien's First Kiss - short film by Spyros Glykys]

Interviewer: Okay, first kiss or date story. 

Alien: I think it was when I was in high school.

Interviewer: Yeah. 

Alien: Freshman year. Yeah. I think I practiced on my hand and stuff, like... 

Interviewer: You actually did that? 

Alien: Yeah, just because like you see it in movies, in like sitcoms and stuff and you're just kinda like, errr.. and then you kinda like try to play it out in your head, and like it does not go as planned. And like I think I, I was so nervous that I like, squished her, like, you know how like you grab someone's face. I think I squished her face.  

Interviewer: Too tight. 

Alien: Yeah.

Interviewer: [Laughs]

Watch Manuela Fuccillo's Animation 2021 showreel. No dialogue.

Thank you kindly, your highness. Thank you kindly, your highness. 

 

Watch Nathaniel Chung's short Animation film 'Kill the Fear'. No dialogue.

Watch Iraklis Chrysanthou's short Animation film 'Jupo'. No dialogue.

[Music]

Man: ...And it wasn't anywhere to be seen. And then I looked over to my neighbour's drive, and there it is. And I was like, that's my Lamborghini, and he was just shaking the keys at me and saying, 'Not anymore.' And I was like...

Electra: So it's been a hour 3 hours since we've been locked in this tiny room. 

Asteroid: Electra, it has been 12 minutes. 

E: Regardless, we should not have to suffer because that thing has infiltrated out ship. 

Nebula: And of course by 'infiltrated' you mean, you let them on the ship. Electra are you -

Electra: Is everyone accounted for? Nebula, Asteroid, Dedoid, Zenon, and Pineapple? Where's Pineapple Chunks? 

Pineapple: I'm here, Electra!

E: Oh, thank goodness. So... is anybody up for some karaoke? 

A: Electra! You just let a foreign alien aboard our ship. 

E: Yes, and it's out there and we're in here. 

A: My pizza was out there. 

N: Electra, honey, what was the one rule when visiting other planets?

E: Have fun and make memories? 

N: What? No!  Well, yes... but the second most important rule was to always wash your hands. 

E: Gees, whoever came up with that rule sounds boring. 

A: Erm, you did. You are the captain. 

N: So what now? 

E: Karaoke?

N: Electra! 

A: This is serious! We don't know where this creature is, and more importantly, what it is. It could destroy this ship for all we know. 

E: Okay, I'm sorry. You're right. Okay Nebula, I think I have a sample of the alien on my hands. You get to tracking him. Asteroid, you research if this thing has any weaknesses. Dedroid, Seynon - you find the weapons. And Pineapple - you sit back and look pretty, you l'il captain. 

P: I will, Electra. 

N: And what will you be doing? 

E: Super important captain things, if you don't mind. 

E: [cries] Oh what have I done? 

P: Hey, Electra. 

E: [screams] Omg, Pineapple, I'm so sorry - you startled me!

P: That's okay Electra, I'm made of pure muscle. 

E: So what's up? 

P: Am I gonna die, Electra? 

E: Oh. No, you're not gonna die. But if you do, it's not my fault. Hey, hey. Remember what I always say? 

P: If a monster's coming fast, kick him in the-

E: No, no! If an alien body comes your way...

P: Electra the Wondergirl will save the day. 

E: That's my boy. Now let's go check on the others.

 

E: Sup, homedogs.  

N: Electra, good thing you're here. 

A: It turns out this alien can possess other lifeforms. 

N: And even worse, signals indicate that an extraterrestrial presence is in radius. 

E: Nebs, you know I don't understand big words. English? 

N: It means the monster is in this room, right now. 

E: What? That's impossible. That means one of us is an imposter. 

P: [laughs evily] It is I. 

E: Pineapple, no! 

N: Who are you? 

P: Who am I? Ha! Your puny mortal brains can't process the power to even comprehend my name. 

E: Oh, try us. My name's Electra, his is Asteroid. And his is Zenonkebobulon. 

Z: The third. 

P: If you must know, it's Ben! 

E: Well, Ben, you mess with my Pineapple Chunks, you mess with me! Woah! Erm, Ash? Maybe you start looking up ways to defeat this thing.  

A: On it. You guys buy me some time. 

E: Come on, Nebula! 

N: On it. 

Z: Dude, I knew I should not have come on this ship. 

D: What? I thought space travelling was your dream, bruh? 

Z: No bro, it was your dream. I wanted to be an artist. 

D: Bro. 

Z: Bro. 

N: Electra, help! 

E: We're all gonna die! 

A: It's heat! It's weakness is heat. Woah! 

E: Deroid, Zenon, quick - crank up the heat!

Z: Huh? 

N: The heat! Turn it up! 

Z: I don't understand. 

A: The thermostat, it's behind you!

D: Woah, what do you mean? 

All: Turn up the heat! 

D: Dudes, let have a bit of rem plase. 

Z: Yeah, no need to shout. Woah! 

Ben: No!

E: Pineapple, are you ok? 

E: You're lucky you're cute. 

N: Well, well done, twins. 

D: What did we do?

N: I hope that this is a lesson well learnt, Electra. 

E: Hell, yeah! Pineapple's vomit actually smells a bit like candyfloss. 

[Outro music] 

[The following short film doesn't qualify as as official diagnosis. If you experience symptoms please seek help from a medial professional.] 

[TW: flashing lights]

The moment that I realised that I had OCD was last year, when I was 20. 

When I started realising I got in a car accident and I started spiralling. 

When I'm having an episode it kinda feels like I'm like trapped. There's an intense fear that I have or realisation, there's no way out of it. And it's quite scary. 

I use the word 'spiral' a lot because that's kinda of how it feels. In my brain. It feels like an endless loop stuck on a track. I can't focus on anything, I'm not living life - I'm just stuck in my head. 

If people without OCD are walking on a floor; the floor has sort of disappeared from beneath me. Falling, whilst other people are kind of walking on solid ground. Almost like, a lack of shape. 

I'll obsess over something I did that probably wasn't even bad, or thinking I'm a bad person, you know, having to convince myself that I'm not. 

Just anything that's really like, taboo, an of a sexual nature - I tend to obsess about that sort of stuff a lot, and get quite scared about that and have episodes that revolved around that sort of thing. 

I always check my car when I get out. I make sure it's perfect. I'll spend hours looking at something because it doesn't look perfect, thinking that looking at it will change it. 

I'd basically not leave my house too often. There were too many things that would trigger me. Part of my avoidant behaviours were related to work that I had to do at university and I stopped going to those classes. 

I quit my job because of my OCD. I couldn't really function in my job to be honest. You feel stupid for doing it but you can't stop.

I felt like I didn't even serve help because part of the nature of the condition is that it tends to make you feel like you're a horrible person. 

When you have a disorder that takes so many forms, people only know what they think they know about it, and so they either won't believe you, won't understand it, and it'll cause them to stress.  

I was in a really horrible, almost non-functional state, and now I consider myself to be mostly recovered. I still actually plan to have CBT therapy anyway, because I think it will prevent me from relapsing. I believe that recovery is possible for OCD. 

[Cheers]

[You are not alone.]

Watch Vaughan Lee-Spring's short Animation film 'Fruiting Bodies'. No dialogue. 

Watch Imogene Goodman's short Animation film 'Nothing Special'. No dialogue.

Watch Roma Blay's Animation 2021 showreel. No dialogue.

Watch our BA (Hons) Animation Graduate Show 2021 showreel. No dialogue. 

Ellie Ball's fashion film - 'Armed Femininity', set to music and showing a model posing in the grounds of a castle.

Rita Rodrigues's fashion film - 'Enough', set to music and showing a model posing in a series of industrial and urban locations. No dialogue.