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CG animation. Parodies BIO-SENSOR (1984).

A tour of home designs in different times and places. Created for Sesame Street.

War forms an impenetrable wall between basketball players.

An engineer is sitting at his desk designing a computer-generated logo providing a printed circuit board made with the BNP effigy, a sign of modern times.

A train struggles to stay on track.

A robot plays the drums. An insect, bearing a familiar logo, buzzes around it.

Thanksgiving dinner, from the turkey's point of view.

The Sisyphus-like story by two co-authors is set in the present. The hero’s boulder is his everyday duties and the need to earn money and look after the family. The dynamic story imitates for instance the rapid pans and tilts of a camera by blurring the picture, the final intensity of changes implicates the stereotypical working routine. Animation on translucent layers alternates with total drawing.

A man orders a statue.

a Leszek Komorowski Cartoon

The man drinks a cup of tea and taps the rhythm with his fingers. The insight into his thoughts shows the image of an airplane pilot who parachutes to tropical islands. He spends his life on fantasizing.

In memory of the feat of fathers and grandfathers - winners of the Great Patriotic War.

An author describes the story of his planned film to his producer. He sends "Lisa and Harry—she East, he West" into space. While the two are in space, the last world war breaks out, causing the Earth to regress. The letter to the producer is never sent...

A short animation set to and inspired by The Cure's One Hundred Years.

"State of the Art of Computer Animation" is a Pacific Arts compilation video of several 1980s examples of computer animation.

Two stories about how pencils colored and decorated the world.

It's Leopold the Cat's birthday. The mice are trying to ruin it for him as best they can.

Animated short directed by Michael Schaack.

While Odyssey focused primarily on 35mm back-lit motion graphics and special effects for the first 5 years of its existence, its award-winning release of the world's first home entertainment video of computer animation, State Of the Art Of Computer Animation in 1988 brought about a shift in focus to 3D computer animation. The accolades and sales successes achieved by State Of the Art Of Computer Animation prompted the 1990 release of The Mind's Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey, a title that would become the first member of the successful The Mind's Eye series. The next decade (1990–2000) would be taken up almost entirely with the production of 19 feature-length 3-D computer animated package films for home release.

In winter, the zoo is sad. The children stare at the empty cages. The snowball explodes the monotony, evokes colors and music. Giraffes and chickens, turtles and hippos, even dragons with three heads appear. They are all colorful and dance against a black-and-white landscape.

Short animation using stop-motion, in which a female dancer dances against the background of a white wall and a painting.

How a grandmother re-educated a lazy grandson who did not want to help her with housework.

A parade of animated cats.

A story about an official who was plagued by erotic visions.

A lively classroom discussion starter, this animated film uses satirical humor to present some of the difficulties graduating students may encounter when looking for work. The film tells of two young people whose career ambitions seem constantly to be thwarted. Their scramble to make a living leads both of them through a succession of odd jobs and, by a strange twist of fate, to a remote lumbering camp. In following their picaresque adventures, the film explores the attitudes needed for surviving in an uncertain world and promotes reflection on how to bridge the gap between ideals and reality.

Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. The two members of the Delta spaceship crew discover a frozen ship with a time machine.

A story about a romantic robot who loved art. But the evil aliens don’t like this, and then, in revenge, the robot begins to create new types of weapons.

In the garden the dreamer dreams about sweet smelling metaphors. Over the course of this film animation, transformations occur that dissolve human violence into peaceful tranquility.

A lonely, middle-aged man gets more than he bargained for when he finds a can of Instant Sex at the local supermarket.

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

One of a series of humorous claymation films about an alternative distribution of household responsibilities between men and women.

An animated film with a New Year's plot, created using the oil painting method. Against the backdrop of winter nature, birds come to life and become colorful as they fly through a rainbow that emerges from a magical birdhouse.

A trailer for Animafest Zagreb 1988.

About a kind girl helping her grandfather with housework.

About good needle and thread create comfort and beauty around, and harmful and cruel scissors try to stop them. The characters embroidered with a needle and thread have their personalities, and they want to have fun and do good, but they have to hide from the scissors that destroy everything on their path. Will they be able to defeat the evil, having won the right to exist?

An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her on the glass mountain. He sets out to find the mountain and is helped on his way by a rather pathetic old giant and a magic butterfly who lends him a pair of wings. Finally, he arrives at his destination and the witch sets him to work on three impossible tasks... The Drummer was one of the winning entries in 'The Magic Mirror' competition to find new animators for children's stories. The main condition was that the stories had to be adapted from existing fairy or folk tales. The series was sponsored by Kelloggs and the series producer was Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions. Shown on ITV, world wide TV, video and at international animation festivals.

How a wizard tailor turned a nondescript corner into a flowering valley.

Following a nuclear attack on Paris, one of the Notre Dame gargoyles comes to life.

Computer animated short film created to commemorate the National Film Board of Canada's 50th anniversary.

A day in the life of a spirited bag lady.

Welcome to Rocky Hollow a secret place where children can watch the characters Mr Oak, Sycamore, Acron, Miss Myrtle, Conker & Rosie The Post Pigeon having picnics, exercising, magic tricks or just having various activities together in Rocky Hollow.

Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Pixel stop-motion animation of one man's war against an army of toilet paper rolls.

An apocalyptic Kafkaesque vision of the end of the world. The man catches cockroaches and splits them under a microscope. He connects thousands of elements to sew a piece of clothing with a hood and a mask in case of a nuclear disaster.

Experimental animation techniques give an impressionistic view of a day's weather in Atlantic Canada.

Graduate film by Willy Hartland.

Rodin's The Thinker raises his head to look ahead, just to return to his original position.

Mônica, Cebolinha, Cascão and Magali give their testimonies about Christmas: what it means to them, how they celebrate and what they feel on this date.

Animation demo reel from Cranston-Csuri Productions circa 1982, replete with gratuitous ray-traced glass spheres.

Biography, in animated form, of the Peruvian scientist Pedro Paulet Mostajo (1874-1945), precursor of space rocketry and explanation of his important beneficial inventions.

Cartoon for school-age children, based on well-known motives.

Computer animation / live action short. In a boy's room, his toys come to live to combat the giant ape on his TV.

Experiemental video using Datamax graphics software. This piece is a very early example of the use of computer animation in video art. ZGrass refers to the programming language used to create the images.