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14. Motel Monstre opening credits

by Nick Cross

1 month ago

13. 2003 Ottawa Animation Festival - Signal Film

by Nick Cross

1 month ago

12. Mr. Floaf

by Nick Cross

1 month ago

11. nick indiegogo promo

by Nick Cross

6 months ago

10. Black Sunrise - Trailer

by Nick Cross

10 months ago

9. The Pig Farmer

by Nick Cross

1 year ago

8. The Pig Farmer - Slitscan animation

by Nick Cross

1 year ago

7. Angora Napkin Title Sequence

by Nick Cross

1 year ago

6. Cody and Joe - Test animation

by Nick Cross

1 year ago

5. The Pig Farmer - Scene 2

by Nick Cross

1 year ago

4. The Music of Sound - Yo Gabba Gabba!

by Nick Cross

2 years ago

3. Kites Are Fun - Yo Gabba Gabba!

by Nick Cross

2 years ago

2. The Waif of Persephone

by Nick Cross

2 years ago

1. Yellow Cake

by Nick Cross

2 years ago

A lamentable tragedy mixed full of pleasant mirth.

This film was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Vimeo Festival + Awards vimeo.com/awards2010/shortlist

For more information about this and other films by Nick Cross, visit nickcrossanimation.com

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Benjamin Arcand 2 years ago

WOAH! :0 Super!!!
Great story, BGs, animation & ambience!
I'm honored to be the 1st to comment... héhéh!
Willva 2 years ago

Awsome =) so wel done and the quality stays consistent all the way to the end =) good work
Jared Deal 2 years ago

Awesome!
Brent Bouchard 2 years ago

that film is bad-ass. nice work!
Lance King 2 years ago

Amazing and inspirational!
Gavin Owens 2 years ago

I was not expecting that!
Amazing
Nick Cross 2 years ago

Thanks everybody!!
Luke Allen 2 years ago

Amazing work, truly great! Any chance of an HD upload :)
Mike Hollingsworth 2 years ago

this cartoon made me hungry.
Sam Fout 2 years ago

Beautiful. Congrats
Matthew Seely 2 years ago

Simply awe-inspiring! I second the request for HD!!!
Charles Huettner 2 years ago

very nice indeed
Rawls 2 years ago

Great work Nick!
Nik Skavinsky 2 years ago

Ha! So politically ironical. Love it.
310 Pictures 2 years ago

AWESOME. Great balance in your tone.
smo 2 years ago

totally incredible totally relevant. fantastic work!!!
Michael Berardini 2 years ago

awesome!
mikejamesbelanger 2 years ago

Nice film - the colours were amazing - and the fat cats too!
dunkwun 2 years ago

wow. gutsy. to say the least.
Aleix Pitarch 2 years ago

I love it!
Zumbakamera 2 years ago

Bravo!
David Nethery 2 years ago

Well done. Congrats on having made something with both substance and style.
Ryan Schmid 2 years ago

this was amazing!
bryab 2 years ago

this is the best thing.
Ted Watts 2 years ago

A one sheet (maybe like the cover of Waif) would give people a better idea of what it promises...
Brett W. Thompson 2 years ago

Nick, you're so amazing. Thank you so much for making this film and sharing it with us!! :) Please put storyboards or animatic on the DVD release??? :D
Squidley 2 years ago

Awesome as hell. Great point of view.
pitayon 2 years ago

Muy buena animación, la idea generall, la historia, me gustó bastante
Nathan Malone 2 years ago

that was friggin fantastic.
beautiful.
Ian Jones-Quartey 2 years ago

whooooa! that was really amazing!
Emily Barrera 2 years ago

This is wonderful!
Love those BGs!
Great short!
victor rago 2 years ago

Brilliant
Bupla 2 years ago

Splendide.
Afif 2 years ago

That was "freaking" awesome.
Doctor Nick 2 years ago

The sad story of western imperialism. The ending is the most poignant; Us first-world parasites can't be arsed by the rape of the third world, we can just change the channel.
Nick Cross 2 years ago

Thanks a million!!!
Brad Garrett 2 years ago

Remarkable. Thanks for giving this to us...
Lippy 2 years ago

Just downright remarkable, Nick! And just when the channel got turned was EXACTLY when I'd had enough and wanted to start thinking about what might be in my 'fridge.

Telling all my friends.
Julia Miller 2 years ago

So disturbing, so effective, well done. My mouth dropped open a few times.
Nicholas Ederer 2 years ago

Love it! The animation is so good, I thought I was watching an older cartoon at times! Impressive!
Rusben Bolobol 2 years ago

Very sad and fun to watch! Nick, I enjoy your style and ideas.
sam spreckley 2 years ago

just amazing... great imagination, great visual style
Chance 2 years ago

Wow your work really paid off, Nick. What program(s) did you use on this animation. My friend and I have been arguing about our different speculations as to what software you used to animate this in and I think you used a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, , Aftereffects, Premier, Flash and or ToonBoom. I think you probably did some traditional painting...but I couldn't tell.

In anycase this is well done. I can't wait to see more.
Edkalos 2 years ago

realy nice LMAO but sad end
Mayrhosby Yeoshen 2 years ago

It's the history of human governments in a nutshell! The ending is just mindblowing. I love your style, and as said before, it's very consistent throughout the story. I love EVERYTHING about it. I'm just wondering, what program did you use to animate? It looks like toomboom to me. And also how long did it take to make it? Once again, congratulations!
KoMoH 2 years ago

wow!
kill krash and destroy!
David Hernandez 2 years ago

The best short I've ever seen on the web! WOW. It's going to be an animation Classic. Everyone should see this. Amazing!
advanced 2 years ago

very nicee
Nick Cross 2 years ago

Thanks!
It was all done in Flash, drawn directly into the program with a Cintiq tablet. The bg's were done in Photoshop.
Miguel Bernal 2 years ago

Genial. Un video muy creativo y con mucho contenido. Congratulations.
Trey Estúdio Criativo  Shima 2 years ago

wow
congrats!!!
Mary Carmen 2 years ago

this is perfect for an history class.
derzinho 2 years ago

super film et ,hélas , si réaliste.
Mak Hon Keat 2 years ago

amazing too amazing! Nice relief ending :)
dmm 2 years ago

great lol
Juan Pablo 2 years ago

I love the retro feeling!!... looks to me like this huge goverment I prefer not to mention.
Ammonite 2 years ago

I didn't like it........ Ahhh only joking, Really brilliant great job. I love the style you used to tell a great fable.
JonathanCruz 2 years ago

Ahhh man I love this old school feeling , you should make one for christmas...=)
Yvonne van Ulden 2 years ago

Hi Nick, I hope you will send it in to the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival edition 2010 (klikamsterdam.nl). We love it.
retro 2 years ago

Excelente!!!!!!!!!!!
Oscarh Ortega 2 years ago

wow! what a complete and original short film! i loved it! do u know where can i get one of those tasty yellow cakes by any chance? hahaha...
Jet Kaiser 2 years ago

Great all around!
Jeff LeBel 2 years ago

Great use of color...Awesome...
Daniel Cecil 2 years ago

Nice build to the end ... good script. Reminds me of an animated Mad Magazine.
Bernard Dumaine 2 years ago

Excellent !!!
Johan Berglund 2 years ago

OMG...That was a great movie. HAHA. Loved it! ^_^
Slava Micic 2 years ago

That was great, congrats!
cestquoiladresse 2 years ago

I love your way of animation !
Zombelious 2 years ago

Seriously one of the best animations I've ever seen. Drawing style, coloring style, all of the motions and expressions- everything was amazing .
Frode Bang 2 years ago

I don't think this movie is politically ironical, this is just how screwed things are. It should be mandatory in high school!
Sheryle Carlson 2 years ago

thank you.
Lawrence Taylor 2 years ago

Positively Orwellian
Athios 2 years ago

Loved it! Moral of the story: Cats are evil. Yes.

Btw, how did what were clearly cookies turn into cakes?
taug 2 years ago

it's awesome...it's best animation that i have ever seen
and i liked emotions of characters a lot....gr8t
Briareos 2 years ago

Great metaphor, make me a bit sad. Great animation, congrats!
Bran Dougherty-Johnson 2 years ago

Brilliant, Nick.
Scott 2 years ago

Great stuff Nick...very frightening and poignant. Loved it.
Shabith Ishan 2 years ago

Brilliant work! thumbs up!
mpared 2 years ago

brilliant published at the curious brain
PXST 2 years ago

Bravo!
Jessica Vielma 2 years ago

It has the warm feeling of the old good cartoons but contains the sad reality of the world...Loved the part when two of the baker town people with burned bodies tried to scape, that resembles the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War (Phan Thị Kim Phúc) Excellent work!
NACKTMULL 2 years ago

wow great job! entertaining AND political
Brad Fielder 2 years ago

Very timely and a treat to look at.
grootfontein 2 years ago

A masterpiece... of cake !
W W 2 years ago

this was amazing!
hanib 2 years ago

Awesome :)
Adam Temple 2 years ago

That was a true work of art. Congrats.
Alex Amelines 2 years ago

wow wow wow
Alex Amelines 2 years ago

just posted it on onehugeeye

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this is truly brilliant, nice work Nick!
Toby Anthonisz 2 years ago

That was huuuge! Superb storytelling, so much covered very succinctly and the twist at the end with the flicking of the channels, a stroke of brilliance! Also really dig the use of the dramatic stills.
Thankyou for sharing this with us, I will be spreading this to everyone I know.
Dave Glanz 2 years ago

Genius.
Ishan Shukla 2 years ago

Best short I have seen this year. Portraying imperialism in a remarkably simple yet disturbing way.

Congrats for the brilliant film!
Tom Geraedts 2 years ago

Fantastic
Yair Mor 2 years ago

Amazing story and superb animation, man. Congratulations!
Gellnerism 2 years ago

that was totally awesome! you deserve all the praise!
It really intrigues me to how you portray imperialism without being overly anti-americanistic, rather showing the underlying truth of exploitation. really great work.
Seth Estrada 2 years ago

Wow! Thank you for staying on topic. No tangents or BS. This is a breath of fresh air with all of the 'other' programming available.
Fernandosanches.net 2 years ago

wonderful script and excellent animation, congratulations on the great job
Alexander Paul Newbury 2 years ago

A perfect allegory of the oligarchical global village/ society we live in. :)
Friseur Seher Erdogan 2 years ago

absolutely great!
Daniel Tynan 2 years ago

thanks, gives me inspiration to make my own animation. I just need to get a Cintiq. As everyone else says, great job! How long to make it start to finish? Were you able to work on it fulltime?