The Best Animation Instagrams Of The Week: Oscar Shorts Contenders

Renee Zhan burst onto the scene along with her Sundance-winning quick Reneepoptosis, which she adopted up with the Oscar-qualified O Black Gap!, a heady existentialist quick which mixes second and cease movement. Puppets from the movie populate her Instagram alongside illustrations, animation exams and loops, and extra.

Honami Yano is longlisted for an Oscar along with her quick A Chew of Bone, which makes use of an in depth pointillist approach uncommon in animation. She tracked the manufacturing in a sequence of Instagram movies, which present her hand-drawing the ornate pictures on a light-weight field.

Natalie Nourigat is a comics artist who entered Disney by its shorts program; her second quick, Removed from the Tree, is in rivalry for the Oscar this yr. She continues to put up the odd comedian on her Instagram, which additionally options fantastic determine drawings and sketches.

Nicolas Keppens is new-ish to Instagram, however he’s put his profile to good use, importing exams and stills from his Oscar-qualified Easter Eggs. Extra not too long ago, he’s posted atmospheric pencil drawings and photographs of quirky installations that includes soda drinks and slugs.

Sandra Desmazières is longlisted this yr for Flowing Dwelling, which follows the fates of two Vietnamese sisters after the autumn of Saigon. Her Instagram is stuffed with beautiful sketches, many in pastel, a few of which flesh out the visible world of the movie.

Pictures at prime: paintings by Nicolas Keppens (left) and Sandra Desmazières (proper)