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5. Little Boat - Teaser

by nelson boles

7 months ago

by nelson boles

9 months ago

3. orfeu TRAILER_1

by nelson boles

1 year ago

2. This one time...

by nelson boles

2 years ago

1. Bad Hair

by nelson boles

3 years ago

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Dan Becker
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Doug Hindson
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Jon Marchione
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Klvo
3 days ago
Elisabetta Zodo
4 days ago
gasta
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Yi-Jen Liu
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MichelGarus
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Fazijinn
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lale moradpour
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Lalo Romos 2 years ago

DAMN thats really awesome. did you do it in flash?
Yasmin Joyner 2 years ago

It was one of my favorites that I saw at the open show. Superb sir. :P
Carlo Pico 2 years ago

Superbonito!
Flash?
Hyperplinks 4 months ago

absolutely fantastic work! its up at hyperplinks.com
Nath Milburn 2 years ago

holy fucking shit, you are so fucking good dude! you make me want to animate so bad.
Ross Phillips 2 years ago

brilliant!
Justin James 2 years ago

Wow, absolutely awesome.
Priyésh Puthan-Valiyandi 2 years ago

Jesus Christ Bananas! That was an incredibly original story. Liked animation & design, too!
diego luis 2 years ago

great design and animation
Ben O'Dell 2 years ago

Dammit wow, thats really really nice.
And what did you use?
Meinardas Animator 2 years ago

wow wow wow. The animation is a great! you a realy good animator. Good luck!
Matt Frodsham 2 years ago

lovely, was this sketch and toon in C4D? The fire and water animation was really nice and the story was very cool
individualEye 2 years ago

beautiful work
Ray Masaki 2 years ago

Holy crap, that was some of the most awesome animation I've seen in a while. Great style, great characters, and a fun little story. Hats off to you sir.
Ray Masaki 2 years ago

I just realized who you are. You're that kid who frequents the MSM forum. I knew you were a great animator, but this is just fantastic. I'm super jealous now, I'm going to start animating more!
Alessio Cagnano 2 years ago

Beautiful work!
Andy Li 2 years ago

Great sound effect!
Pasquale D'Silva 2 years ago

Haha, this is wild!
_vs 2 years ago

beautifuullll!
KATEcreate 2 years ago

This is really great. So cool, so creative. I had fun watching it :)
Dom 2 years ago

wow, great
Nick Khoo 2 years ago

you inspire me! what did you do the animation in? After effects?
Matthew Mojica 2 years ago

great stuff, incredible design.
Kalvin Camp 2 years ago

I'm in disbelieve of how awesome this is. holy crap. this is *literally* 'epic'. For some reason I was reminded of the "Princess Mononoke" movie. Fantastic job!! I definitely will keep an eye out for more stuff from you.
Blake Whitman 2 years ago

this kind of thing happens to me all the time.
Cheng Ka Chun 2 years ago

excellent~!!!!!!!!
Rio Matthew 2 years ago

This is really cool mate. Love the storyline
Robert Fowler 2 years ago

Brilliant animation, a whole new world has opened up .
Ricky Flip 2 years ago

Trip out man...
Rafael M. 2 years ago

VERY cool. I wanna do something like this!
Cotinz 2 years ago

magfuckingnificent
klaus bohms 2 years ago

Do caralho essa porra!
Angel De Franganillo 2 years ago

A ma zing
Yonny Zafrani 2 years ago

wow! that was fantastic!
Samu Ainesmaa 2 years ago

Yes.
Robotoys 2 years ago

sample,powerful!
Paul Treacy 2 years ago

Delightfully weird.
Mario Pixel 2 years ago

Wow!
Tito Sacchi 2 years ago

ho ho... that was something...
Peter Szewczyk 2 years ago

Nice. It's got a bit of that Miyazaki vibe. Great sense of scale at 1:12.
Bes Bujupi 2 years ago

Love the colours and the animation style. Beautiful treatment!
Daniel Oliveira Prins 2 years ago

...wow. If beautiful things could kill me, I would be dead now :D
prazert 2 years ago

COOL animation
nosuchthing.nl 2 years ago

That was awesome! Very good job!
rickflick 2 years ago

This should win an award. Maybe $100,000? No more.
Stephane coedel 2 years ago

Woa!!!!! amazing!
Shane 2 years ago

Huge Props! FANTASTIC work
kimmygorden 2 years ago

Aesthetically pleasing. Intellectually stimulating and over all fuckin' ROCKS.
You just earned a fan!
Rohit Iyer 2 years ago

I love the simplicity of the design and the animation is very strong. This is an amazing short. How long did it take you?
louis-etienne vallee 2 years ago

very sweet !
Parabucks 2 years ago

brilliant!
Charles Huettner 2 years ago

tons of fun
Zoosh 2 years ago

EPIC! Simultaneous sweet innocence and utter terror!
Release the Hounds 2 years ago

Really great stuff. Love the sounds design as well.
Peter Bunzl 2 years ago

Great design great animation, well done.
Jr.canest 2 years ago

GREAT GREAT GREAT... such cool animations
thilo wohlgemuth 2 years ago

oh man, that is the best short i'd seen in last 2 years.
Emmanuelle Walker 2 years ago

Masterful
Claire Fauché 2 years ago

whouaaaaa...the colours!!! the design!!
bravo!
Kurara Studio 2 years ago

nice work.
Travis Hathaway 2 years ago

This film still rocks me like it did at the producer's show. Congrats man
-trav
FAS 2 years ago

Wow!!! Really really nice! Very well animated.
Reminds me of Furi Kuri.
Captain Awesome 2 years ago

Beautiful work. I would love to see more original animation like this. Love the animation style as well.
Felipe Budinich 2 years ago

hahaha what a "Cutethulesque" monster, really happy-epic... I think that i need to learn more words to express my admiration for your work.
Travis Blake 2 years ago

I love the creativity. It draws you in really quickly and keeps you guessing. Really stimulates the imagination.
Tj Nelson 2 years ago

incredible.
Andrew Stride 2 years ago

wowee!
Raphael Bortholuzzi 2 years ago

awesome, unique and original. well done
Shelley Noble 2 years ago

Please tell me you are highly experienced. Please. Please tell me that such spare simple-styled storytelling was done by someone who had command over the medium from long years work in order to get that much drama and emotion out of it.
Daniel Klug 2 years ago

^^ Seriously!
You are _extremely_ talented!

Thank you for sharing your art!
Federico Radero 2 years ago

I wish there would be more words to describe how much I loved this short, but they were all used already!

PURE GENIUS!
Carlos Sánchez 2 years ago

Wooow, excelent!
trev 2 years ago

Fantastic!! LOVE the sound effects!!
zait redouane 2 years ago

excelent
Sheryl Geisler 2 years ago

Nice job, Nelson! Looks like we have a budding animation master in the family....congrats.
Adam Montgomery 2 years ago

Jeebus Nelson, you snuck this past msm. It's a good thing you have stalkers...Great great short!
insane 2 years ago

nice
Beatriz Iglesias 2 years ago

Wow!!! The animation, the timing, the colors and shapes...all is awesome! Congrats! ^__^
David Lee 2 years ago

Amazing!
Kijek / Adamski 2 years ago

Great effect achieved with very demure means.
Jurriaan Hos 2 years ago

lovely
Rob Moffett 2 years ago

Incredible
Nicolas Fong 2 years ago

nice, like it etc...
go and watch my movie "Bill & Bob"
vimeo.com/4197204
Kwangyoon, Yang 2 years ago

so cute!
Elliott 2 years ago

inspiring work!
UnitedFakes 2 years ago

We love your animation!

40fakes.com/?p=7192
Andy Bauer 2 years ago

very cool
Robert Bruce 2 years ago

Great character design, color, tone and wonderful animation.
Antoine Guédès 2 years ago

Nice ! :)
DustFilms 2 years ago

Fantastic!
Moxie Joe 2 years ago

Great subtlety. Solid animation!
Sandra Gutiérrez 2 years ago

So cute!! ^_^
Craig Trester 2 years ago

Superb!
Matthew Seely 2 years ago

This was simply amazing. I love how the frame rate wasn't super high, but everything was incredibly fluid. The design and colors were superb as well. You've got some MAD skillz man. MAD skillz...
Terry Wu 2 years ago

Great animation. Thanks for inspiration!!!
Svario 2 years ago

omg is so simple and beautiful, amzing!
eddie ilie 2 years ago

Amazing sound effects!!!
John Graham 2 years ago

Wow! As a viewer it's freakin' fantastic. As a artist, I'm sick with envy!
Wolfgang Gaebler aka gogo6969 2 years ago

Great!
karen fong 2 years ago

i felt sad after watching it,
since his pet tried to safe him...

nice animation + design~

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