Student Animated Short Film

The Grand Cosmos Casino

  • Dark Comedy

A darkly comedic satire where four unsuspecting contestants are thrown into a high-stakes interdimensional gambling game, only to realize their superpowers are just another illusion.

[BUG FIXES]

  • Sci-Fi

Clipse, a curious moth repairbug, goes in a little deeper than anticipated when attempting to fix the lights at a diner run by Caddie, a waitress robot plagued by glitchy malfunctions.

Blood, Lead, and Octane

  • Action

A mother and son duo battling bloodthirsty bounty hunters in vehicular combat amidst a desert wasteland.

Broken Script

  • Surrealism

A girl is sitting in her classroom when, without warning, she begins to glitch.

FISH MONEY

Two sisters fight a giant fish monster for a sweet cash reward

Free Toys

Happy Anniversary

  • horror

A crash test dummy gets into a car accident and finds himself traversing a hellish corn maze, chased by a scarecrow, while his girlfriend waits for him at home.

HEARTDRIVE

In a world where robots reign supreme, the “DESTROY” half of a mechanical search-and-destroy duo catches a bug called “feelings.” Its target? Their partner, “SEARCH.”

Jamie's Cosmic Chase

  • Comedy

Jamie’s Cosmic Chase is a short 2D animated film following a rookie zookeeper’s first day on the job at an intergalactic zoo. Shortly after his shift begins, a baby creature escapes its enclosure and begins to wander around the zoo. Jamie tries (and repeatedly fails) to rescue the baby, resulting in a comedic chase across enclosures. Overall, this short film is a study in 2D animation fundamentals, design and story development, and project organization.

Maladaptive Dreamer

  • Sci-Fi

After the collapse of society, a young girl's mother transforms her baby into a monster capable of generating life forms from her head to repopulate humanity. The girl, known as 2-E, craves her mother's attention but is constantly ignored. She is then launched into space, set to do her mother's bidding. Years later, as she matures, she manages the daily tasks aboard her spacecraft, focusing on maintenance and creating more beings. She soon grows weary after her repetitive tasks, and she suffers from great bouts of loneliness. During her routine, she encounters imagery of her mother. Remembering how much she craved her mother's love, 2-E crafts a likeness of her. Because of her lack of data she accidentally creates an amorphous amalgamation of her feelings. 2-E is attacked by the monster and eaten. Within the belly of the beast, she recontextualizes her relationship with her mother and breaks free from the monster. Facing her creations again, she realizes by confronting her trauma she can move forward and break the behaviors caused by her mother.

MythoLogic

  • FANTASY

Mythologic reimagines the story of Medusa in a world where gods, mythical creatures, and urban legends coexist. Once human, Medusa becomes the victim of secret experiments conducted by Olympus, a powerful scientific research institution. Transformed into a creature with serpentine hair and a gaze that turns living beings to stone, she escapes and hides away from the world. When Perseus is sent to eliminate her, he instead discovers the truth behind the monster he was ordered to kill.

Point Nemo

  • Sci-Fi

During a total solar eclipse, a photographer in the most remote place on Earth and a doomed astronaut are inexplicably brought together into a shared void. They spend a few tender, surreal moments together before the eclipse ends, returning them to their fates.