Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Welcome to Night Island

Doesn't look like the short is up in its entirety at the moment, but Salvador Maldonado's Night Island was shortlisted for the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short. It didn't make the final cut, but from the following clip and the Swigly poll that ranked it second among the shortlisted films only behind David O'Reilly's sublime The External World, it looks to be something special: