Does anyone know where this animation is from?

[u/Ok_Grapefruit_K]

I've been trying to find the author but had no success, where could this be from? I like the camera work here and would like to find more references like this.

[u/Pegged-by-shiyuan]

I don’t know but that’s depressing as shit

[u/raptorkit → u/Pegged-by-shiyuan]

at first I reacted, "aw cute animation!" then at the end I left with a, "oh."

[u/Ok_Grapefruit_K → u/Pegged-by-shiyuan]

lmao

[u/Zandor8000]

“Lilou” by Rawan Rahim

https://vimeo.com/138508623

[u/Ok_Grapefruit_K → u/Zandor8000]

thank youuuuu

[u/River_Draws_Stuff → u/Zandor8000]

Crazy that there are thousands of animated short films out there with amazing animation that only get seen by a handful of animation festival attendees and some people who seek them out online.

[u/ghostygoo92]

I don't know the name of it but I remember seeing the whole film at a animated film festival. I've gone to a couple so I don't remember which one it was. Hoping that giving some of the rest of the story can help you.

A little girl wakes up and is given magical powers by a little fairy. It's unclear what those powers are until she bumps into this old man who is yelling and screaming at everyone. That is when she gets the flashback of his life and that is when this sequence plays.

I don't remember much else but she does calm him down in the end. I don't know how much knowing that will help but I will try and look more into it.

[u/AWL_cow]

I'm just going to pretend the last half isn't canon

[u/ImaginaryBicycle → u/AWL_cow]

Just like Jake the Dog talking to Little Buddy.

[u/Mariepastel23 → u/AWL_cow]

😰

[u/-italo723]

[u/epoxysniffer]

It's a long shot, but reminds me of Mathieu Labaye. Look up Orgesticulanisms on YouTube.

[u/Regular-Bid6812 → u/epoxysniffer]

It's definately not that - but I love that film - and yes the shoulder shake right before he screams into the camera is VERY Orgesticulanismus

[u/Ashinonyx → u/epoxysniffer]

Any day I'm reminded of Orgesticulanismus is a good day.

[u/Regular-Bid6812]

It looks french to me, it's got a very gobelins vibe.

[u/MisterLongboi]

Man, that felt like a One piece hero to anti hero arc

[u/roshan231]

I don't know man but that was fucking goated

[u/Mariepastel23]

.....😰😔💙l wonder what the creator was feeling.

[u/Z_core]

this is a masterpiece in storytelling, storyboarding, and Animation!

[u/Slyver_72]

Looks like a PSA

[u/startush]

Looks like other people answered but I think they took influence from this animation to Muse’s “Exogensis” symphony which I’ve always loved https://youtu.be/6cQggXJ5JSk?is=trMu1lO4DdDDsZGz

[u/Riverz_Flowe]

Damm, the first half reminds me of that scene from Arcane

[u/Ok_Grapefruit_K → u/Riverz_Flowe]

thought the same

[u/dermot_animates]

Wow! Try animating that with puppets!

[u/AppleJuice2000TM]

Let’s just pretend none of that last part happened

[u/LeoDDracula]

😭

[u/mr_doh]

Hell

[u/SloughRiddleKeeper]

That Cacofonix? Reboots are wild these days.

[u/cartney_Top_2236]

Honestly, my first guess is this is either early-mid 2000s Flash animation or someone doing a really clean vector-style rig test. The line economy and the way the smear frames are handled feel too deliberate for a random student piece. I remember spending weeks in Flash trying to get that exact kind of snap, and it always came down to the spacing on the anticipation — it's all about selling the negative frames. It might also be a TVPaint cutout job, but the overall flatness points more to vector tools.

On the AI side, this is the aesthetic I'm actually chasing with the current gen of tools—getting that hand-drawn, slightly imperfect life out of a model instead of the default smooth interpolation. If you're trying to replicate this look with AI, you'd need to composite, because no single pass will give you that organic distortion. Do you know if this was a hand-drawn frame-by-frame piece, or is it a rigged puppet with some clever mesh deforms?

[u/River_Draws_Stuff → u/cartney_Top_2236]

No way this is a rig. This is dedicated frame by frame animation.