Perspective in Science Animation Playlist

The Ballad of Holland Island House

Lynn Tomlinson

<p>The Ballad of Holland Island House is a short animation made with an innovative clay-painting technique in which a thin layer of oil-based modelling clay comes to vibrant life frame by frame. Animator Lynn Tomlinson tells the true story of the last house on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay. Told from the house&#39;s point of view, this film is a soulful and haunting view of the impact of sea-level rise.&nbsp;</p>

Paradise Lost

Evelyn Lambart

<p>This short animation by artist and animator Evelyn Lambart offers a wordless plea for the right of all living creatures to a clean, unpolluted environment. With rich colour and intricate animated motion, the film features birds, butterflies and other woodland creatures succumbing to air pollution caused by human inventions.</p>

Man

Steve Cutts

<p><span dir="auto">Animation short looking at mankinds relationship with the natural world.</span></p>

Blindelings

Joanne Van Der Weg

<p>Before I started with graduation I got in contact with a blind man called Henk. He told me about his life. Because of my conversation with him I got interrested in how he lives his life. The animation is about a little trip a blind person makes to get somewhere. With this animation I won the The Diorapthe award at the &quot;Nederlands Film Festival 2014&quot;. This is an award won at the studentcompetition for a for a remarkable achievement.</p>

Animated Life: Seeing the Invisible

Flora Lichtman Sharon Shattuck

<p>This animated feature celebrates 17th-century citizen-scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, whose discoveries of microbes changed our view of the biological world.</p> <p>In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of lake water through his homemade microscope and discovered an invisible world that no one knew existed. His work inspired countless microbiology researchers, including HHMI investigator Bonnie Bassler, one of the narrators of this animated feature. Leeuwenhoek was a haberdasher and city official in Delft, The Netherlands. He started making simple microscopes and using them to observe the world around him. He was the first to discover bacteria, protists, sperm cells, blood cells, rotifers, and much more.&nbsp;</p>

Simulados

Guillermo Marin Fernando Cucchietti

<p>Simulados is the story of a hunter-gatherer from 12000 years ago trying to survive in one of the most extreme climates in the world.&nbsp;In this journey we&#39;ll learn how computer simulations help us understand the workings of our societies, and how they might help us face the consequences of complex challenges such as climate change.</p> <p>The main topic of the documentary are the computer simulations of human societies, which lies within the so called digital humanities field. More in particular, the research described is a multidisciplinary collaboration between archeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and computer scientists. The theme addressed by the documentary is the idea that computer social simulations can help us understand complex systems like societies, and in particular find some insight into the consequences of their decisions in the face of large challenges such as climate change.</p> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p>Directors: Guillermo Marin y Fernando Cucchietti;&nbsp;</p> <p>Script: Cristian Selvas;&nbsp;</p> <p>Technical Director: Fernando Cucchietti;&nbsp;</p> <p>Art Direction and Animation: Guillermo Marin;</p> <p>Colorist: Pablo Mejlachowicz</p> <p>Junior 3D artist: Juan Carlos Nava&nbsp;</p> <p>Sound design: eDic Edi Calder&oacute;n</p> <p>Music: Jazzquezz y eDic Edi Calder&oacute;n;</p> <p>Narrator: Karina Matas;</p> <p>Produced by: BSC Scientific Visualization Team</p>

Things used to be hidden

Tara Mercedes Wood

<p>How much do we really want others to know about us and what do we want to know about them? In the aftermath of a disaster causing everyone to loose their perception filters various characters tell us about their experience and new lifes.</p> <p>This animated film is a mockumentary about human perception and the way the inhabitants of this world in which a natural disaster causes everyone to loose their perception filters cope with their new found unfiltered reality.</p>

Erään hyönteisen tuho (The Death of an Insect)

Hannes Vartiainen Pekka Veikkolainen

<p>In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die.</p> <p>This tragic story was constructed using dead insects gathered from forgotten attics and tool sheds, between window panels and cobwebs. It combines a number of animation techniques from classic stop-motion animation to animated 3D models of x-ray CT-scanned insects.</p>