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"One Rat Short," a 10-minute animated film, focuses on extremes-repulsion and love, dark and light, realism and fantasy. It's the first 3D animated short created by Charlex, a New York-based digital design and postproduction studio, and it won the first competition in which it was entered: the prestigious SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival.
"I was just hoping we'd get into the Electronic Theater," says the delighted director, Alex Weil. "One Rat Short" took that hope to the max by winning Best in Show over 726 submissions. The film now qualifies to compete for an Oscar.
"The jury felt this piece achieved greatness on several levels: emotionally, ...