I did some volunteer work at the Melbourne International Animation Festival earlier this year.

I worked with one of people who runs it, she was a great insight into the inner-workings of a great festival. She did inform me that it was pretty much solely run, developed etc by 2, yes 2 (!!) people. It made me very tired just thinking about how they did it all! The great thing about the volunteering was that I saw nearly the entire program for FREE.

I've noticed as well that some of them are on youtube, so I thought I would share some of my favourites with you.

So probably my favourite funny one is called Fantasie in Bubble Wrap by Arthur Metcalf, USA in 2007.

(***oh and there is swearing in this film***)



I think its generally cute and clever while being rather shocking and sad, oh so sad, but funny.

Another funny one that i really liked was Rex The Dog 'Bubblicious' by Geoffroy De Crecy, France, 2008



Again very clever and the bad 80s music makes it :) Its interesting to see how they develop that kind of animation too.

ok now on a more serious note the next animation stuck with me.

Hungu by Nicolas Brault, Canada, 2008.



Hungu was made out of sand! I really loved the sounds in this film, the great imagery and the pace of it. Such an emotive, moving film I thought.

This next one I had seen before the film festival but it was even better on the big screen. I'm sure some of you would have seen/heard about it. It's seriously amazing! Take some time to watch this if you haven't already...

MUTO Blu Italy, 2007



Click here for the Blu website.

I wonder how long that took!...