Weekend Animations, Episode 6

Since there won’t be another weekend before Thanksgiving here in the U.S.A., I’m going with a pair of videos that I think mesh in well with the holiday of turkey, gravy, and pies of every flavor. Truth be told, they mesh well with any of the later-year holidays going on around these parts, but they go with Thanksgiving particularly well.

Up first is Galactic Mail, a short film that blends two of our biggest ways to gamble: football and sending mail, and then blasts the competition off into space and starts the game like a gigantic XFL match. Who will win: Team FedEx or Team UPS? Will the package be delivered? If so, will it be in one piece? You’ll have to watch to find out!

Our second video is considerably quieter. I picked it for two reasons. First, there’s a lot of traveling in the video. And because the video is riffing on the idea of parallel worlds and lives, where people might be doing similar things with small differences. But I’ve also picked this one because we end up sharing some form of traveling during the holidays. Maybe you’re headed to midtown Manhattan or midtown Missoula, the experience of traveling home, of visiting with family and friends, of sharing the holidays and beginning to take stock of the that’s passed year and what’s to come is pretty universal. We all end up doing it, if all a little bit differently.

So enjoy this kickoff to the holiday season, go ahead and have a piece of that pie your grandmother made (it’s not going to hurt you*), and we’ll see you again next week!

Galactic Mail
by Asterokid

The Filmmaker says:

Galactic Mail is a project I made along with my friend Jonathan Vuillemin aka Motraboy. It was produced by The Mill in 2008. We used XSI Softimage as a main tool. Check my website for more infos: asterokid.com