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If these student films--sampled from among those that had the honor of appearing in the SIGGRAPH 2006 Electronic Theater and Animation Theater--have any common thread, it is their sense of playfulness and humor. That playfulness is apparent even when the theme is potentially dark or deep.
"Noggin" takes a clever and fanciful look at the evolution of man and the Great Flood. In "My Date from Hell," the devil is a genuinely nice guy. "Our main aim was to make a funny film that the audience would enjoy," says Tom Bracht, co-director and animator of "Hell." "Profound melancholic short animations are great, but attending festivals, we always like to see films that ...