🎬 Grand Jury Award Best Stop Motion Playing God, by Matteo Burani Double winner at Animayo 2025 With puppets, clay, stop-motion and pixilation, Italian director Matteo Burani delivers a 9-minute short film full of atmosphere and symbolic tension. Playing God tells the story of a clay sculpture that mysteriously awakens in the shadows of a workshop, surrounded by strange, almost otherworldly beings. It’s a poetic and unsettling reflection on creation and control. The jury recognized the film wit
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🎬 Grand Jury Award Best Stop Motion Playing God, by Matteo Burani Double winner at Animayo 2025 With puppets, clay, stop-motion and pixilation, Italian director Matteo Burani delivers a 9-minute short film full of atmosphere and symbolic tension. Playing God tells the story of a clay sculpture that mysteriously awakens in the shadows of a workshop, surrounded by strange, almost otherworldly beings. It’s a poetic and unsettling reflection on creation and control. The jury recognized the film wit
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Exclusive: 'Playing God' director Matteo Burani shares his favorite shot from the Oscar-shortlisted film, and explains how a painstakingly animated fall of a clay figure embodies the film’s emotional core. This single sequence required 30 days of preparation and 93 days of animation. Read Burani's full thoughts on the clip here: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/matteo-burani-favorite-shot-playing-god-258227.html | cartoonbrew.com
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Exclusive: 'Playing God' director Matteo Burani shares his favorite shot from the Oscar-shortlisted film, and explains how a painstakingly animated fall of a clay figure embodies the film’s emotional core. This single sequence required 30 days of preparation and 93 days of animation. Read Burani's full thoughts on the clip here: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/matteo-burani-favorite-shot-playing-god-258227.html | cartoonbrew.com
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Making of : "Playing God" à Annecy 2025 Plongez dans les coulisses de "Playing God", l'un des projets d'animation en volume les plus marquants de l'année, réalisé par Matteo Burani et produit par Studio Croma Animation et Autour de Minuit. ✨ Une sculpture en argile prend vie, consciente de ses imperfections… et nous entraîne dans un univers où la fragilité humaine se mêle à la magie du stop motion. Conçu avec trois techniques d'animation combinées – marionnettes, argile et pixilation – le film e
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Making of : "Playing God" à Annecy 2025 Plongez dans les coulisses de "Playing God", l'un des projets d'animation en volume les plus marquants de l'année, réalisé par Matteo Burani et produit par Studio Croma Animation et Autour de Minuit. ✨ Une sculpture en argile prend vie, consciente de ses imperfections… et nous entraîne dans un univers où la fragilité humaine se mêle à la magie du stop motion. Conçu avec trois techniques d'animation combinées – marionnettes, argile et pixilation – le film e
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FYC: Playing God (Tribeca Festival 2025 Best Animated Short Winner) Written and directed by Matteo Burani and produced and animated entirely by Arianna Gheller, PLAYING GOD unfolds inside a bare workshop where clay sculptures come to life, craving more than mere existence. When their Sculptor disappears, the figures are left to confront isolation and discover meaning through one another. Told without dialogue, the film relies on tactile movement, visual precision, and emotional restraint to expl
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FYC: Playing God (Tribeca Festival 2025 Best Animated Short Winner) Written and directed by Matteo Burani and produced and animated entirely by Arianna Gheller, PLAYING GOD unfolds inside a bare workshop where clay sculptures come to life, craving more than mere existence. When their Sculptor disappears, the figures are left to confront isolation and discover meaning through one another. Told without dialogue, the film relies on tactile movement, visual precision, and emotional restraint to expl
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Cartoon Brew on Instagram: "Today’s Oscar-shortlist spotlight may be the most unsettling of the year. Matteo Burani’s 'Playing God' is a clay-animated body horror short that turns fragile sculptures into a haunting allegory about creation, identity, and belonging. Hand-crafted with materials like clay and real tears and saliva, it pushes stop motion to raw, visceral extremes. Made over seven years by Burani and animator Arianna Gheller, who founded Studio Croma Animation to bring the vision to l
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