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A group of students at the University of Applied Sciences at Augsburg (Josef Buchner, Johannes Berner, Tom Kohlbauer, and Janine Ilg) assembled the quirky and informative film “Our Little Word - The Climate Movie” as a class assignment. The results were fantastic, and here to chat with us about the film is animator Josef Buchner.

Channel Frederator: Where did you study animation?

Josef Buchner: We are a group of multimedia and communication design students, who are committed to topics such as sustainability, ecology and ethics. We are right now working on our diploma (thesis) and try to set up our own business, focusing on the visualization of social and ecological relevant topics.

CF: Who or what has influenced your work the most?

JB: For example: Humans! by Three Legged Legs as well as all the great JibJab-clips!

CF: What gave you the idea for this film?

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Greetings, Earthlings.

We care about our home planet. This week’s filmmakers do, too. Even The Robot cares about it (he’s a robot, yes, but he’s still from Earth).

Let’s celebrate and protect our critter-friends in the forests, rivers, mountains, and oceans. Take public transportation, walk, turn off the lights, plant trees, buy locally grown food – however, you should know the single most important thing you can do for the planet today… is watch cartoons.

Ratatat - “Seventeen Years”, submitted by Michael A. Chico – Fun flash film where cute fuzzy animals are pitted against vicious forest chopping robots! Go Earth!

“Our Little World - The Climate Movie”, submitted by Josef Buchner - A group of multimedia and communication design students combine ethics and animation in this fun (but crazy educational) short.

WARNING: Channel Frederator is rated EXPLICIT. Spring has sprung, people. You don’t know what you’re gonna see. Just promise us you’ll get permission [Read more…]