The Lost Season (2024)

Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and crayon.

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out.

As the ice-cream man runs his rounds in Tiny Town he is unexpectedly met with a giant magic 8 ball. Upon further investigation of its prophetic message, he narrowly escapes a disastrous train collision. When a giant doll emerges through the wreckage, the ice-cream man tries to flee the town. When all escape routes are destroyed, he returns to his ice-cream truck, transforming into a massive robot to defeat the massive doll. Will the ice-cream man be able save his town?

The view from the window takes me far beyond.

A day in the life of a little ghost imitating human beings.

The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.

Daiki just wants to fit in at school, but his magical girl mother might ruin everything for him by bursting in on Career Day. Will the power of love hold strong amidst family tensions???

This abbreviated short, though never finished, got into Siggraph’s Electronic Theater for 1994. An early Bob Sabiston animated short

Color test for animation by Bob Sabiston

This is the first ‘independent’ use made of our “rotoshop” software. It was quite primitive in the beginning. This is a short road-trip documentary consisting of animated interviews with people found along the route from New York to Austin.

Rythmetic is a 1956 Canadian short animated film directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart where numbers are the main characters.

This tale depicts the torments that a world famous conductor suffers while leading a mediocre orchestra.

Gale, disheartened pastry chef struggling with burnout, reaches her breaking point one morning during the daily work grind alone.

A man is racking his brain at a desk. On his desk there is a tiny man also racking his brain at his desk. The big man remains still without any ideas. The tiny man moves around in vain trying to catch some idea, which is supposed to be inside of him. Both men. . . become desperate and after the daybreak the big man is struck by an idea. . .

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.