UCLA Animation Workshop Movies

Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a chubby man with a passion for paper folding, who wants to change the world with his art.

A nurturing farmer in is danger of losing his crop of windmills when he struggles against the cyclical forces of nature.

The Jockstrap Raiders takes place during World War I in Leeds, England. A group of underdog misfits are excluded from the war due to various abnormalities. Threatened by the invading German Kaiser and his army, they must learn to become a team and overcome their deficiencies in order to save...

At a lab, the three scientists are attempting to cure a mysterious creature of the unknown sick. With a series of chain reactions, the medical aid becomes emergent. In the end, through a carefully investigation, they finally find out the cause of the unknown sick but it is out of their expectation.

This is one talented grenade!!!

'Symphony' portrays a sentient creature trying to escape from a reality of being swept away and assimilated into the mainstream, regardless of its own will. The topic of this abstractedly crafted animation applies to anything that struggles to be free. It can be a phenomenon occurring deep within...

Animation of a poem from Edith Sitwell's "Façade".

A child grows into a man, but cannot open the door in his own room trying to figure out what's in it.

Short animation by Po Chou Chi about a grandson want to make his grandmom's wish come true

Okimura's take on the classic Sesame Street song "One of these things is not like the other".