The second day of the festival started with the Films for children selection. Amongst them was one of the few, if not the only one, Spanish short film of the festival, "Cuento de la C" ("The C tale"), by Carlos Navarro. Pitifully, I didn’t like it very much.


My favourite one was the 3D short “The Curse of Skull Rock”, by Ben Smith, about three pirates looking for a cursed treasure. The plot isn’t quite original, but the characters are well defined and animated. It takes every single detail into account, like the constant rolling of the boat on the water and enhancing its crew’s movements, and some funny ones, like the toilet sign or the handbreak.


The textures and lightning of the figures are very well done and elaborate, and the sea is convincingly recreated. The characters design is kind of cartoon-like, as the exaggeration of their movements, accordingly to the general spirit of the film.


The next screening was about commercials and TV series. I’ve seen the Sony Bravia spot many times but I still love it every time I watch it. The delicacy of the plasticine figures invading the streets of Manhattan makes you forget about the amazing fact that this master piece of commercials became real thanks to 40 animators working with 200 bunnies made of 2.5 tones of plasticine and repositioning them in 2 minutes to shot frame after frame.

As must-see as the final commercial is the making of it, which you can see here.

And there are other Sony Bravia beautiful spots you should see, like the one with the bouncing balls or the paint explosions.

The Creation Museum commercial was also nice. I think it’s done digitally imitating the cut-out technique. I especially love the design of the tree of Eden and the general colour of the spot.