Student Accomplice is a thrilling 5-minute animated short about a nervous teen who gets caught in a high-stakes robbery while taking her driving test.

For more information, full breakdowns and behind-the-scenes information, please visit their entry page: https://www.therookies.co/entries/32526

This 3D-animated film, created with Pixar’s Renderman for Houdini, won Film of the Year and People’s Choice at the Rookie Awards 2024, and was a finalist for Rookie of the Year. With an impressive team of 30 talented students from Brigham Young University’s Center for Animation, this capstone project showcases cutting-edge animation, compelling storytelling, and stunning visuals.

This film was crafted using iterative design, procedural modeling, and collaboration across a variety of animation disciplines. It’s the result of weeks of hard work, creative exploration, and technical innovation. Don’t miss out on seeing the future of animation through the eyes of these talented students.

Warner Bros. Pictures originally bought “Primal” and “Samurai Jack” creator Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Fixed” back in 2023, and then promptly shelved the completed R-rated animated comedy. Sony later shopped around the project, which was picked up and then released on Netflix earlier this year. Now, Tartakovsky is trying to get his next feature made and has […]

Here's the footage. Can you embed videos into lemmy comments yet?

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This beautiful animation that was recommended to me by Robert Thomson. It deals with disability. youtube | invidious

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I remembered this animation yesterday, when I was writing in my journal. Here's an excerpt:

I remember now, "Orgesticulanismus"... That video has 27K views, yet it is one of the most powerful and beautiful animations ever. When I watched this, I remember being quite healthy, and I was like "that must sound really tough, I can't even imagine" yet here we are, here I. Am.

Now. There are many things in my life, that I said "will never happen to me", I dismissed these things so easily, only for them to apply to me. Like I remember hearing about LGBT people, and I was like "wow, I can't even imagine" yet here I am, this my face when I realize this:

So here I am now, and I watch this animation, and I'm like wow. I relate to this so so much. These strings that bind people, A have never felt these strings. It is only when my movement became restricted, that i started to feel them. The lower strings feel like chains to me.

When I was robbed of movement, I started to feel things I've never felt before, I started to feel the tugging and pulling of these strings, it's almost like my own body is resisting movement in all of its forms, it's like it's revolting against me, asking me to stand still, and just take in the pain.

Like the man in the video says (who is the animator's father), when you lose movement, you have to reinvent it, you have to learn how to walk, how to hug, how to fix things, you have to relearn the very basics of movement.

Now, if you're still reading this, and you haven't watched it, please do!

When the "human" or (humans) break out of these strings and start dancing, it put a smile on my face. Like I had a very grim look at the first half, and I was watching how the people change, and how they try to stand up from the chair. I related to that, oh so much. I just saw a person standing up, yet the expression of that animation, carried so much information.

And so they revolt, they break the strings, "Fuck this" they say, and they start dancing, and the dancing animation is something else, my favorite part is when that baby grows up while dancing, then becomes an astronaut and stuff, that was very cool, so cool, and so wow.

I have felt that when I listen to very cathartic metal albums. Everything hurts, but I feel the need to stand up and start dancing, and I dance, and for a couple of moments, mere minutes, I don't feel the pain, I feel free. But then my neck and shoulders start to hurt for days, I do follow standard headbanging procedure, but it still hurts.

At some point they revolt against flesh itself, and we have a skeleton dancing, and the movement of that skeleton to me, when it moves, I can hear and feel the sound of bones rubbing together. Then they revolt against their material form, and just fucking, fucking, go abstract. And the dialogue of that man comes back, and it's really, really lovely.

Please give this animation love, and send it to everyone. I already had it downloaded on 2021. (That sentence doesn't feel right.)

Thanks for the recommendations!

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The news of Nelvana's closure hit like a plot twist no one saw coming, but industry insiders point to a perfect storm of challenges. Reports from employees indicate the studio closed its doors on August 29, 2025, with no official statement from Corus yet. This follows a wave of layoffs and restructuring that began in 2024.

Parent company Corus Entertainment has been grappling with severe financial woes, including a steep advertising downturn fueled by economic uncertainty and the lingering effects of the 2023 U.S. writers' and actors' strikes. In July 2024, Nelvana paused all development and parted ways with VP Athena Georgaklis amid cost-cutting measures. Corus's broader issues include shutting down Disney Jr. and Disney XD channels in Canada by September 2025, signaling a retreat from kids' programming.

Experts cite industry-wide shifts: streaming wars have squeezed traditional animation budgets, while AI tools and offshore production reduce demand for in-house studios. Corruption allegations and executive pay hikes amid layoffs haven't helped public perception. For Nelvana, which integrated its operations into Corus in 2006, these pressures proved fatal.

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Clone enough, welcome back Redline. They didn't have to go so hard but I am glad they did.