2 minutes 27 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour/Digital
Director // Holly Sweeney, Amie O’Mahony
College // LSAD
“The Adventures of Space Bear” is a 2 minute, 2D animated short film following the comedic adventures of an alien bear who discovers the wonders of ordinary human objects. A collaboration between recent LSAD graduates Holly Sweeney and Amie O’Mahony.
5 minutes 23 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour/Digital
Director // Holly Keating
College // BCFE
A girl accidentally deletes her thesis the night before it’s due, and goes through 4 stages of stress: Denial, Anger, Depression and Acceptance.
2 minutes 28 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour
Director // Ciara Leslie Moloney
College // LIT
A boy journeys to the summit of a mountain to make an offering.
Mood and ambience-focused short film by Year 2 Digital Animation Production undergraduate team “CinnaBuds”.
2 minutes 25 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour/Digital
Director // Shannon Egan
College // LSAD
Archie’s Bat is a story about a lonely young boy who is surprisingly given the chance at friendship when his path crosses with an injured bat. However, Archie will learn that not only is a bat not the best play mate, but there’s responsibility in caring for another living being.
0 minutes 54 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour
Director // Patrick Naughton
College // BCFE
A curious cat highlights the importance of pet insurance, in this short mock advertisement.
6 minutes 41 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour
Director // Corina van Deventer
College // IT Tralee
A 2D-painted, short film, this story tells of the lost relationship between Humanity and Mother Nature.
3 minutes 12 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour
Director // Siobhan Hardt, Bobby McCune, Sinead Keane
College // IADT
While buying snacks for an upcoming role-playing game, Chester’s vivid imagination gives the bland world around him a fantastical twist.
A student film created while attending the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
4 minutes 49 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour/Digital
Director // Nathan Lowry
College // BCFE
Two Sisters, Claudia and Rachael are on an end of Summer camping trip before school starts again. They explore the local forest in search of a mysterious creature.
To make the trip memorable and to prove their suspicions, Rachael has set up props for Claudia to find. Finding out the props were set up by Rachael, Claudia runs deep into the forest, feeling betrayed and alone. Claudia is scared and wishes she hadn’t run off, she hears unexplained noises in the forest.
3 minutes 14 seconds/2019/Ireland/Colour/Digital
Director // Fausto Pontes
College // Letterkenny Institute of Technology
2 friends buy an unusual pet which attracts the attention of a villainous collector
3 minutes 22 seconds/2019/United States/Colour/Digital
Director // John T. Hill
Jack and Lovey go on a wild adventure after a flying pygmy hippo steals their pacifier and leads them on a zoo – spanning chase!
15 minutes 26 seconds/2019/Hong Kong/Colour/Digital
Director // Lok Yiu Shovel Chan
College // Hong Kong Polytechnic University
‘Everyone needs to accept their own weakness.’
Everyone leaves Toru because he cannot protect everything he loves.
He then wears a fish jar to escape from the painful fact and create a brand new fantasy world.
He thought he could enjoy his own freedom with no pain and no worries ever after inside the jar…
But his fish jar will rupture every time when he feels pain and the exploring jar is fatal to him. His enemy will come to find him and destroy his own wonderland when that happens…
1 minutes 40 seconds/2019/United States/Colour/Digital
Director // Daun Kim
College // Ringling College of Art and Design
An agile long-legged frog escapes from being dissected by a frenzied determined 12 years old girl.
6 minutes 34 seconds/2019/Germany/Colour
Director // Maria Schmidt
Producer // Nina Schwarz
The little fox Hugo has a happy family, but it’s a bit unsual – his parents are geese. They live an harmonic life until one day Hugo discovers a grown fox attacking another goose. This results into the most challenging and difficult situation our little patchwork-family has to overcome before Hugo ultimately finds out who he really is and that family is a feeling and not a matter of heritage.
7 minutes 06 seconds/2019/Germany/Colour/Digital
Director // Alex Berweck
Producer // Nina Schwarz
Fussel, the friendly monster, finds the beginning of a red string. This sparks his interest and he heads out to find out what’s at the end. On his journey he meets different looking monsters, of which everyone has it’s own theory about the end of the string. Curiously they join Fussel on his journey. Being different isn’t a problem in this group and together they head out to face challenges on their way to becoming friends.
Environments and Characters were created with the new VR software Quill to challenge traditional asset creation in 3D animation.
| Date | Friday 20th of March 2020 |
| Time | 11:30 |
| Venue | St James’ Church |
| Duration | 70 minutes |
| Note | All seating is allocated at a first-come-first-served basis. This event is only open to Animation Dingle festival pass holders. |
